key concepts of the Civil War
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| Who were the presidential candidates of the election of 1860? | Lincoln, Douglas, Bell, and Breckinridge
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| Southerners justified secession with the theory of _________. | states' rights
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| In 1860 Kentucky and West Virginia were both ______________. | Union slave states.
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| Which presidential candidate did not appear on the ballot of most Southern states during the election of 1860? | Abraham Lincoln
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| With other workers of the same skills, workers formed | trade unions
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| What was "king" and the main topic of conversation in the South? | cotton
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| Most enslaved people on plantations worked as | field hands
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| Most factory workers lived in | slums
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| What group of Southerners measured their wealth partly by the number of enslaved people they controlled? | plantation owners
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| The main topic of the Lincoln–Douglas debates was | slavery
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| What book by Harriet Beecher Stowe showed slavery as a brutal, cruel system? | Uncle Tom's Cabin
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| What Supreme Court decision divided the nation even more? | Dred Scott decision
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| What battle was named after a small church? | Shiloh
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| The bloodiest day of the entire Civil War was the Battle of | Antietam
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| William Tecumseh Sherman's "march to the sea" headed toward | Savannah, Georgia
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| What guarantees accused individuals the right to a hearing before being jailed? | habeas corpus
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| What battle began when the Union cavalry surprised the Rebel infantry raiding the town for shoes? | Gettysburg
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| The main goal of the North at the beginning of the war was to | reunite the country
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| Confederate ships that broke through the North's line of defense were called | blockade runners
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| What April battle lasted only two days, but included some of the most bloody fighting of the war? | Shiloh
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| Clara Barton worked with wounded soldiers and later founded the | American Red Cross
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| Appomattox Court House is famous because it is the site of | General Robert E. Lee's surrender
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| The doctrine of states’ rights helped to bring on the Civil War by asserting that states have a right to ____. | secede
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| General Ulysses S. Grant began his command of Civil War Union forces in what part of the country? | along the rivers of the midwest
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| What state was so divided over secession that it split into two states in the early 1860s? | Virginia
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| Disagreement over new states being free states or slave states was a cause of the | Civil War
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| Who was the president of the United States during the Civil War? | Abraham Lincoln
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| Abraham Lincoln signed a document that freed all slaves in the south. This document is called the | Emancipation Proclamation
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| Who was president of the Confederacy during the Civil War? | Jefferson Davis
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| At the beginning of the Civil War, whose main goal was to bring the Southern states back into the Union? | the North
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| At the beginning of the Civil War, whose main goal was to be recognized as an independent nation? | the South
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| Who served in regiments separate from white regiments in the Union Army? | African American soldiers
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| What 1865 constitutional amendment abolished slavery in the United States? | thirteenth amendment
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| Lincoln was unable to carry out his Reconstruction plan because he | was assassinated
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| Which Civil War general became president in 1869? | Ulysses S. Grant
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| The Southern economy after the Civil War was mainly based on | agriculture
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| With whom did senator Stephen A. Douglas debate the issue of slavery in the Senate race of 1858? | Abraham Lincoln of Illinois
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| The first state to secede from the Union in 1860 was | South Carolina
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| Where were the first shots of the Civil War fired? | Fort Sumter
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| The first major battle of the Civil War was called the | Battle of Bull Run
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| The capital city of the Confederacy was | Richmond, Virginia
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| In what role did thousands of women serve during the Civil War? | nurse
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| What 1870 constitutional amendment prohibited governments from denying the right to vote to any male citizen? | fifteenth amendment
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| The phrase "separate but equal" refers to the rights of | African Americans and whites
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