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Politics/
Court Cases
Famous People
Important Battles
Slavery—
to be or not to be
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North or South?
The President of the United States during
the Civil War
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Abraham Lincoln
The President of the Confederacy
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Who was Jefferson
Davis
Two of the Confederate Generals
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Who were Stonewall
Jackson, Robert E. Lee
Two of the Union Generals
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Who were Grant,
Meade, Sherman,
Sheridan, McLellan
A nurse during the War
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Who was Clara
Barton
This was the first battle of the War, and a
big Confederate win
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Bull Run)
A northern victory fought in Tennessee,
near the Mississippi River
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Shiloh)
The only major naval battle which ended in
a tie
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Virginia vs. Monitor
Pickett’s Charge was part of this battle
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Gettysburg)
The start of the Civil War
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attack on Fort Sumter
This Compromise allowed the balance of
free and slave states to remain equal
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(Missouri Compromise)
This Act forced northerners to catch
runaway slaves with a punishment of being
fined or jailed
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Fugitive Slave Act of 1850)
This book, written by Harriet Beecher
Stowe, put the harsh reality of slavery out
in the open
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(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
Guerilla warfare was used in this conflict
that broke out in the Kansas and Nebraska
territories (
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Bleeding Kansas)
This Compromise, which had five parts,
allowed California to enter the Union as a
free state
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(Compromise of 1850)
Abraham Lincoln was a member of this
political party
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Republicans
This party believed in keeping slavery out
of western territories
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Free-Soil Party)
This case which came to the Supreme
Court was an important milestone in the
debate of whether slavery should be
allowed in certain territories
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(Dred Scott v. Sanford)
This party formed as a result of Whigs and
Democrats agreeing to be against slavery (
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Republicans
These debates for Senator were so
important because of the topic of slavery
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(Lincoln-Douglas debates)
Strengths included having a greater total
population, more factory production,
and the majority of railroad mileage
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North
This side’s strategy included fighting a
defensive war
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South
Weaknesses of this side included being a
new nation, not having a strong central
government, and having a weak
economy
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South
The battle of Fredericksburg was one of
this side’s worst defeats
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North
The only regiment made up of AfricanAmericans who fought at Ft. Wagner were
fighting for this side
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North