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1
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Where was the Confederates final surrender

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The Appomattox courthouse

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LISTING: Why did the South lose?

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  • Lack of transportation
  • Lack of industry
  • Were not unified (thought of themselves of states first)
  • No help from Britain or France bc of slavery
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3
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How many died in the civil war?

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  • 600,000 people
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4
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What government was supreme after the Civil war? Federal or state?

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Federal

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5
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What General led the 54th regimen?

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  • Shaw
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What regimen did Shaw lead?

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  • 54th
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When did the Republican Party begin? What did it start as?

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  • 1850s

- Abolitionist Party

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8
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Who debated against Lincoln and put the Republicans on the map?

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Douglas

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9
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What were the Lincoln / Douglas debates?

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  • US senate race in Illinois
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10
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Douglas _______ his stance on _______ and _____ the democrats

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  • weakened
  • slavery
  • split
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11
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Who won the Lincoln/Douglas debates?

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Douglas

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12
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How many other people did Lincoln run against for president?

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4

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13
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What year did Lincoln run?

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1860

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14
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What state was the first to succeed?

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South Carolina

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LISTING: Why wouldn’t the North let go?

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  • End of the US (only 75 years old)
  • Anarchy - cant prevent another state from leaving
  • Collapse and weakening of nation
  • Against the constitution
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16
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Where does the Civil war begin?

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  • Fort Sumter, South Carolina
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17
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LISTING: Border States

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  • Missouri
  • Kentucky
  • Delaware
  • Maryland
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18
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What was Lincoln cautious about?

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The emancipation of slaves

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19
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What did the North West Ordinance enforce

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North of the Ohio River = free states

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20
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Missouri was a _____ state and Maine was a _____ state

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  • Missouri = slave

- Maine = free

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21
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What two states entered during the Missouri compromise?

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  • Missouri and Maine
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22
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Why was Texas entering the Union a problem

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Thought they would create multiple southern slave states from Texas - would throw off the balance of free and slave states

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23
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What state entered during the Compromise of 1850?

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California

- free state

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24
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What act made Kansas violent?

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Kansas-Nebraska Act

25
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What did the Kansas Nebraska do?

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Make Kansas violent

26
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Dred Scott Decision was a…

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Lawsuit in which a slave was sued for freedom and denied

27
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Who beat up Charles Sumner? With what object?

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  • Preston Brooks

- Cane

28
Q

John Brown was a ______________, and was caught at __________, ________.

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  • radical abolitionist

- Harpers Ferry, Virginia

29
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What was Freeman’s Bureau? When was it put into operation?

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  • Helped former slave and war refugees obtain food, medicine, and education
  • after the civil war
30
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LISTING: Amendments 13-15

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13 - Abolished slavery
14 - citizenship to African Americans
15 - Right to vote

31
Q

The Military Reconstruction Act of 1867 divides the post Civil War South into how many military districts?

A

5

32
Q

What is a carpetbagger?

A

A northern republican who moved to the South during Reconstruction to profit from unstable financial and political conditions

33
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What is a scalawag?

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A southern white who became a republican during the reconstruction of the South to profit

34
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What were the man jobs slaves had following the Civil war? (2)

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  • Sharecropper (grows crops on land owned by another - crops given as rent)
  • Tenant farmers (Farmer who pays cash for rental of land)
35
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LISTING: Slave stereotypes (5)

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  1. Sambo - happy go lucky
  2. Nat - killer; blood thirsty
  3. Jack - work well if treated well; manipulative upon opportunity
  4. Mammy - sweet, nurturing, maid or nanny-like
  5. Jezebel - sexual person, seducer, blamed for relationship w slave owners
36
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The 10% plan was Lincolns plan to _______.

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Forgive

37
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10% plan (def)

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10% of eligible voters had to take a loyalty oath

38
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Who were the main leaders of the radical republicans?

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  • Thaddeus Stevens

- Charles Sumner

39
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What was the radical republicans

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  • punish the south so severely that they will never try to leave again
40
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Date - assassination of Lincoln

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April 14 1865

41
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Where was Lincoln assassinated?

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Ford Theatre, Washington DC

42
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Who assassinated Lincoln

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John Wilkes Booth

43
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Profession of John Wilkes booth

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Actor

44
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Lincolns assassination was…?

A

The only successful part of an attempted conspiracy

45
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Andrew Johnson was (3)

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  1. The VP before Lincoln died
  2. Native of Tennessee
  3. Not trusted by either side
46
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LISTING: Black Codes and Jim Crow laws (6)

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  • No jurors (BC)
  • No mixed race marriages (BC)
  • Vagrancy fine (BC)
  • poll tax (JC)
  • Literacy test (JC)
  • Property owner (JC)
47
Q

Which act finally ended reconstruction?

A

Compromise of 1877 effectively ended Reconstruction

48
Q

The Compromise of 1877 moved the focu of the nation towards ______.

A
  • the west
49
Q

What compromise moved the focus of the nation towards the west?

A

The Compromise of 1877

50
Q

Please v. Fergeson was a…

A

Decision that stated “separate bu equal” facilites were constitutional
- the law until 1954

51
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Battle of Shiloh

A
  • 2 day battle
  • Pittsburg Landing
  • 24,000 deaths
  • Confederates launched surprise attack on the union - Union won
  • Bloodiest battle of the Civil war
52
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George McClellan

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  • Head of Union army
  • did NOT get along with Lincoln
  • very cautious
  • Relieved of his duties half way through the civil war
53
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Battle of Gettysburg

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  • Most famous battle
  • Turning point of Civil War
  • July 1-3 in Pennsylvania
  • Helped union take the lead in war
  • South was undersupplied
54
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Antietam

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  • Maryland
  • Sept 17, 1862
  • Bloodiest day in American history
  • McClellan was fired after the battle
  • Emancipation Proclamation was announced to the country bc Lincoln wanted to launch positive news
55
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Robert E Lee

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  • Prime commander in chief for the Confederacy
56
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Shermans March to the Sea

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  • Marched through Georgia
  • Goal was to devastate the South
  • Total war
57
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Ulyssess S. Grant

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  • General during the Mexican war
  • Later became president - mediocre
  • Died of throat cancer
  • Lincoln liked bc he got stuff done
58
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First battle of Bull Run

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  • Fought in Virginia
  • Beauregard and McDowell = commanders
  • The first major battle of the civil war
  • Led south to become over confident and North fearful of what was to come
59
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Stonewall Jackson

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  • Second most important general for the South
  • Negative for South when he was killed - shot by one of his own men which did damage to his arm - amputated it then died from infection
  • “stands there like a stone wall”

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