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Soc Stu UIL 2011-12
The Civil War
Question | Answer |
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Cause and effect of the Civil War | Fueled by the debate over slavery and states' rights, pitted North against South in the costliest conflict fought on U.S. soil. |
Reconstruction | Refers to the period of upheaval in the American South after the Civil War and abolition of slavery. |
Battle of Hampton Roads | Battle between the Monitor and Merrimack during the American Civil War changed naval warfare forever. |
The War of 1812 | was fought between the United States and Great Britain over British violations of U.S. maritime rights. |
Abraham Lincoln | The 16th president of the United States, led the Union to victory in the Civil War and emancipated the South's African-American slaves. |
Spying Operation | Both the Union and the Confederacy benefited from this during the Civil War. |
Civil Rights Movement | In the 1950s and 1960s, civil rights activists in the United States used nonviolent protest, civil disobedience and legal action to end segregation and pursue equality for all Americans. |
The First Battle of Bull Run (or Manassas) | fought on July 21, 1861, was the first major engagement of the Civil War. |
The Red Scare | Growing out of the Cold War of the late 1940s and 1950s,resulted in a wide-ranging effort to investigate and eliminate communist influence in the United States. |
World War I | From 1914 to 1918, the Central Powers faced off against the Allied Powers in a devastating international conflict that later become known as |