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What is the name of the President
of the United States of America?
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Abraham Lincoln
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What is the name of the
President of the Confederate
States of America?
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Jefferson Davis
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What is the name of the
Union general who forced
the surrender of the South at
Appomattox Courthouse?
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General Ulysses S. Grant
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What is the name of the
Union general who waged
total war on the South and
destroyed Atlanta?
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William Tecumseh Sherman
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What is the name of the
woman you read about in
“Secret Warriors” who
disguised herself as a man
and fought as a soldier?
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Sarah Wakeman
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This battle marked the bloodless
beginning of the Civil War.
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Fort Sumter
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The first major battle of the
war was watched by
spectators and demonstrated
to the nation that the war
would not be short.
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The First Battle of Bull Run
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This battle lasted 3 days,
included Little Round Top
and Picket’s Charge and saw
over 50,000 casualties. It
marked a turning point in the
war.
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Gettysburg
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This battle is known for
being the single deadliest
battle in American history. It
also provided the victory
needed for Lincoln to issue
his Emancipation
Proclamation.
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Antietam
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Capturing this city allowed
the North to control the
Mississippi River.
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Vicksburg
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This man tried to incite a
rebellion among the slaves of
West Virginia by seizing the
arsenal at Harper’s Ferry.
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John Brown
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The compromise created a
boundary between free and
slave states based on latitude.
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The Missouri Compromise
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This slave felt that he
deserved freedom after being
taken by his master to a free
state. The Supreme Court
disagreed.
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Dred Scott
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What is the name given to
the fighting that took
place between anti-slavery
and pro-slavery forces in
Kansas?
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“Bleeding Kansas”
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The election of this man in
1860 signaled the final straw
for several southerners and
was the catalyst for the
secession of many states.
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Abraham Lincoln
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The summer of 1863 saw
this erupt in New York City.
It lasted for four days.
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Draft Riot
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Robert E. Lee surrendered to
Ulysses S. Grant in this town
in Virginia in April 1865.
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Appomattox Courthouse
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In order to stop
supplies and people
from coming and going
across the South, the
North put in a place
one of these.
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A blockade
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As part of the terms of
surrender, Confederate
soldiers were allowed to keep
their livestock and the
officers could keep their
weapons, including their:
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swords
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As a way of controlling
people whom he perceived to
be a threat to the nation,
Abraham Lincoln suspended:
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habeas corpus
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The name used to describe
the type of destruction, in
which war is waged on an
enemy’s will to fight. War
that affects everyone.
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Total Warfare
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A document that declared an
end to slavery in the states that
were rebelling from the
Union; and gave the Union a
new cause for which to fight.
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Emancipation Proclamation
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The name of the allAfrican American regiment
that fought bravely at Fort
Wagner.
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Massachusetts 54th
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This battle put an end to the
hopes that Europe would join
the war on the side of the
Confederates.
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Antietam
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Women participated in many
ways in the war effort. Their
contributions included all of the
following except:
Ran farms and businesses
Ran the governments
Worked in the factories
Served as spies
Were smugglers and scouts
Served as nurses and doctors
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Ran the government
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