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Question 1

American abolitionist who escaped slavery and assisted other enslaved Africans to escape

Answer 1

Harriet Tubman

Question 2

the most famous Underground Railroad conductor and is known as the Moses of her people

Answer 2

Harriet Tubman

Question 3

American abolitionist who escaped slavery and became a leading African American spokesperson and writer

Answer 3

Frederick Douglass

Question 4

published his biography, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, and founded the abolitionist newspaper the North Star

Answer 4

Frederick Douglass

Question 4

was an abolitionist and author of the famous antislavery novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Answer 4

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 5

American journalist and reformer who published the famous antislavery newspaper, the Liberator

Answer 5

William Lloyd Garrison

Question 6

helped found the American Anti-Slavery Society, promoting immediate emancipation and racial equality

Answer 6

William Lloyd Garrison

Question 7

received a field promotion to lieutenant general in charge of all Union forces after leading a successful campaign in the West. Accepted General Lee’s surrender of Confederate forces at Appomattox Courthouse, ending the Civil War.

Answer 7

Ulysses S. Grant

Question 8

Sixteenth president of the United States who promoted equal rights for African Americans in the famed Lincoln-Douglas debates

Answer 8

Abraham Lincoln

Question 9

issued the Emancipation Proclamation and set in motion the Civil War, but was determined to preserve the Union

Answer 9

Abraham Lincoln

Question 10

assassinated in 1865

Answer 10

Abraham Lincoln

Question 11

American soldier, he refused Lincoln’s offer to head the Union army and agreed to lead Confederate forces. He successfully led several major battles until his defeat at Gettysburg, and he surrendered to the Union’s commander General Grant at Appomattox Courthouse.

Answer 11

Robert E. Lee

Question 12

American Union army officer whose capture of Atlanta, Georgia, and March to the Sea marked an important turning point in the war

Answer 12

William Sherman

Question 13

American Confederate general who led the Shenandoah Valley campaign and fought with Lee in the Seven Days’ Battles and the First and Second Battles of Bull Run

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Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson

Question 14

first and only president of the Confederate States of America after the election of President Abraham Lincoln in 1860 led to the secession of many southern states

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Jefferson Davis

Question 15

Union’s Goal

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Bring Union back together. It was not about abolishing slavery initially

Question 15

Border States- what are these and why are they called “border”?

Answer 15

Slave states that did not secede from the Union

Question 16

Union’s Strategy

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the Anaconda Plan: General Winfield Scott’s plan to blockade southern ports and take control of the Mississippi River

Question 17

Confederacy’s Goals

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be an independent nation and gain support from Britain & France

Question 18

Confederacy’s Strategy

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defensive strategy

Question 19

Confederate efforts to use the importance of southern cotton to Britain’s textile industry to persuade the British to support the Confederacy in the Civil War

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Cotton Diplomacy

Question 20

Significance of Battle of Antietam

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Union victory; bloodiest single day battle in US history

Question 20

Significance of Battle of Fort Sumter

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first battle of the civil war

Question 21

Significance of First Battle of Bull Run

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first major land battle

Question 22

Significance of Emancipation Proclamation

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The war is now about ending slavery. "...all persons held as slaves are and henceforward, shall be free.”

Question 23

Significance of Fredericksburg

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first urban fighting and opposed river crossing. Crushing defeat for Union Army that boosts Confederate morale and leads them to another Victory at Chancellorsville.

Question 24

Significance of Chancellorsville

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devastating loss of General Stonewall Jackson. Confederate victory enabled General Lee to move North into Maryland.

Question 25

Each new territory added continued to wrestle with the issue of slave/free state. People continued to fight over the balance of power in congress for slave/free states.

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Compromises of 1820 & 1850

Question 26

Supreme Court ruled that Dred Scott was not a citizen, therefore could not sue in the ______________________

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Dred Scott Decision

Question 27

scared white southerners that there could be more attacks into the south by abolitionists

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John Brown’s Raid at Harpers Ferry

Question 28

Abraham Lincoln elected president as an Anti-Slavery candidate in the ______________

Answer 28

Election of 1860

Question 29

After Lincoln is elected, _____________ secedes from Union in Dec 1860

Answer 29

South Carolina

Question 30

most controversial section of Compromise of 1850. Mandated Northerners to assist Southern slaveholders with capturing and returning escaped slaves back to the South

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Fugitive Slave Act

Question 31

nickname given to the Kansas Territory in 1856 because of the violence erupting there over the possible expansion of slavery into the territory

Answer 31

Bleeding Kansas

Question 32

7 debates that took place in Illinois during the Senate election of 1858. Main focus of debates was the issue of expanding slavery into western territories

Answer 32

Lincoln-Douglas Debates

Question 33

Election of 1860- Who wins? What was Abraham Lincoln’s stance on slavery?

Answer 33

Abraham Lincoln; anti-slavery