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Lilli's Civil War Study Guide

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What were the primary industries of the North and South?   Factories/Cotton Plantations  
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What is an abolitionist?   People who wanted to end slavery now  
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Name 2 Famous Abolitionists (William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglas) and their effect on the anti-slavery movement:   Authors, spokespeople  
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What was the Underground Railroad?   A series of houses to help slaves runaway  
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Who was the famous conductor on the Underground Railroad who was a former slave?   Harriet Tubman  
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Compare and contrast differences between the North and the South:   North - Urban/factories and South -Rural/plantations  
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What was the Fugitive Slave Law?   Any slave that escaped had to go back  
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Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe?   The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin  
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Who first suggested for the South to secede?   John C. Calhoun  
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What does it mean to secede?   Break away  
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What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?   Repealed the Missouri Compromise  
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Who was Dred Scott and what were the results of his trial?   Officer of the US Army, slave, trial was not successful  
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What was John Brown's plan?   To attack the arsenal at Harpers Ferry (failed)  
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Who won the election of 1860?   Lincoln  
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Where were the first shots fired in the Civil War?   Fort Sumter  
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Where was the first land battle of the Civil War and who won the battle?   Bull Run - Confederate Army won  
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What was the name of Winfield Scott's plan and what did it propose?   Anaconda plan - proposed strategy for subduing seceding states  
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What was the Emancipation Proclamation?   A paper that Lincoln made to free slavery  
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Wo was the General for the Union Army? Confederate?   Grant/Lee  
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Who was stonewall Jackson and why do we remember him today?   General for confederate army - His death was a huge blow to the confederate army and a boost to the Union & General Lee  
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What was the formal name the confederacy gave to their newly formed nation?   Confederate States of America  
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Who was its president?   Jefferson Davis  
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Who was the founder of the American Red Cross?   Clara Barton  
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Why was the battle of Gettysburg so significant?   Turning point  
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Who won the Civil War   Union  
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Who assassinated President Lincoln?   John Wilkes Booth  
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What did the 14th amendment state?   Defines the rights of Citizens & voting rights  
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abolitionist   A person opposed to slavery and in favor of ending it right away  
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arsenal   a building where weapons are stored  
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blockade   a military strategy that aims to cut off supplies going in and out of an area  
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compromise   a settlement of difference between two or more sides reached by each side giving up some of what it wanted  
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fugitive   one who flees or tries to escape  
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urban   having to do with cities or towns  
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rural   having to do with the countryside and agriccure  
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secede   to withdraw formally from an organization or a nation  
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