The American Civil War (USI.9)
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| What type of economy did the South have before the Civil War? | agricultural/farming (plantations)
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| What type of economy did the North have before the Civil War? | manufacturing (factories)
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| What type of society did the North have before the Civil War? | urban (cities)
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| What type of society did the South have before the Civil War? | rural (plantations & small villages)
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| What is a tariff? | a tax on products from other countries to make people choose locally-made goods over foreign-made goods
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| Why did the North support tarrifs? | tariffs made the North's manufactored goods cheaper than foreign goods, therefore people were more likely to buy the cheaper goods from the North
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| Why did the South oppose tarrifs? | it cost more money to buy manufactored goods and the South was afraid that Great Britain would stop buying cotton from them
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| What region of the US favored a strong central government? | The North
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| What region of the US favored states' rights? | The South
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| Why did many people in the North want to abolish slavery? | many Northerners thought slavery was morally wrong, cruel and inhumane, and a violation of the principles of democracy
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| Why did many people in the South want to keep slaves? | many Southerner's believed the South's economy depended on the labor of slaves
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| What compromise on slavery allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state and Maine to enter as a free state? | Missouri Compromise (1820)
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| What compromise on slavery let the decision of slavery fall to popular sovereignty? | Kansas-Nebraska Act
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| What compromise on slavery allowed California to enter the Union as a free state and the rest of the Southwest decide the issue of slavery itself? | The Compromise of 1850
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| What marked the beginning of the Civil War? | Confederate troops firing on the Union's Fort Sumter
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| When did the Southern states secede from the Union? | after Abraham Lincoln's election
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| Union, Confederate, or Border State? Alabama | Confederate
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| Union, Confederate, or Border State? Missouri | border
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| Union, Confederate, or Border State? New York | Union
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| Union, Confederate, or Border State? Deleware | border
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| Union, Confederate, or Border State? Virginia | Confederate
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| Union, Confederate, or Border State? Michigan | Union
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| Name the FOUR border states. | Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, Deleware
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| Who was the President of the United States during the Civil War? | Abraham Lincoln
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| Who was the President of the Confederate States during the Civil War? | Jefferson Davis
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| Union, Confederate, or Border State? Oregon | Union
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| Who was the General of the Army of Northern Virginia and fought for the Confederacy? | Robert E. Lee
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| Who commanded the Union Army? | Ulysses S. Grant
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| Who was a skilled Confederate General from Virginia? | Stonewall Jackson
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| What nurse founded the American Red Cross? | Clara Barton
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| Who was a former slave who escaped and became a powerful abolitionist? | Frederick Douglass
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| What African American sailor fought for the Union and became an Congressman after the Civil War? | Robert Smalls
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| What was the turning point of the American Civil War? | The Battle of Gettysburg
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| What battle gave the Union control of the Missississippi River and thus divded the Confederacy? | Vicksburg
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| What marked the beginning of the Civil War? | the firing at Fort Sumter
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| What happened in Appomattox Courthouse, VA? | General Lee surrendered to General Grant, marking the end of the Civil War
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| What document issued by President Lincoln made the focus of the war about slavery? | The Emancipation Proclamation
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| What was the first major battle of the Civil War? | The 1st Battle of Bull Run or Manassas
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| "government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth" is a quote from what famous speech? | The Gettysburg Address
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| Who wrote the Gettysburg Address? | Abraham Lincoln
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