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Civil War and Reconstruction
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11/30/2005

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What was "Radical Reconstruction?"
Definition
Congress's plan to punish the rebelling southern states before allowing them to return to the Union with full rights following the United States Civil War.
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What was "Congressional Reconstruction?"
Definition
Congress's plan to punish the rebelling southern states before allowing them to return to the Union with full rights following the United States Civil War.
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What was Congress's plan to punish the rebelling southern states before allowing them to return to the Union with full rights following the United States Civil War.
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Radical or Congressional Reconstruction
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What was "Presidential Reconstruction?"
Definition
President Andrew Johnson's plan to punish readmit the southern states to the Union with full rights following the United States Civil War.
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What was President Andrew Johnson's plan to punish readmit the southern states to the Union with full rights following the United States Civil War.
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Presidential Reconstruction
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Cotton Gin
Definition
What invention made slavery profitable again?
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Eli Whitney
Definition
Who invented the Cotton Gin?
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Eli Whitney
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Who invented "Interchangeable Parts?"
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Harriet Tubman
Definition
Who was known as "Moses" for her heroic actions as a conductor on the "Underground Railroad?"
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Abolitionist
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What is a person called who is against slavery?
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Reconstruction Amendemnts (13,14,15)
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Which amendments to the United States Constitution were passes to protect the rights of formmer slaves?
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"Dred Scot v. Sandford"
Definition
Which Supreme Court decision established that slaves were property and not people?
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Justice Roger Taney
Definition
Who was the chief justice of the Supreme Court that released the "Dred Scot" decision?
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Abraham Lincoln
Definition
Who was the sixteenth president?
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Abraham Lincoln
Definition
Who was president of the United States during the Civil War?
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John Wilkes Booth
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Who assassinated (killed) President Abraham Lincoln?
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Andrew Johnson
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Who was the seventeenth president?
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1861-1865
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When was the United States Civil War?
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1. Slavery

2. States Rights
Definition
What two reasons are generally given as the chief causes of the United States Civil War?
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Jefferson Davis
Definition
Who was the president of the Confederate States of America?
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Secession
Definition
What is it called when a state voluntraily leaves a political union?
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Nullification
Definition
What is it called when a state ignores a federal law inside its own boundaries?
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Robert E. Lee
Definition
Who commanded the army of Northern Virginia in the United States Civil War?
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Andrew Johnson
Definition
Who becmae president when Lincoln was assassinated?
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Slaves in the rebelling states only
Definition
Who did the Emancipation Proclamation free?
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Fort Sumter
Definition
Where was the first shot of the Civil War fired?
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William Tecumseh Sherman
Definition
Who burned Atlanta in the U.S. Civil War?
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Appomattox Court House
Definition
Where was the Peace Treaty signed that effectively ended the fighting in the U.S. Civil War?
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
Definition
Who was the author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin?"
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Missouri Compromise (1820)
Definition
Which compromise admited Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state.
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Compromise of 1850
Definition
This compromise called for:
1. California - free State
2. Nevada, Utah and New Mexico - Popular Sovereignty
3. Harsher fugitve slave law enforced
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Henry Clay
Definition
The Great Compromiser
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Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
Definition
Stephen Douglas came up with this plan that allowed Kansas and Nebraska to enter the Union as Popular Sovereignty states. That is, they would be allowed to determine by popualr vote wether to be a slave of free state.
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Harper's Ferry, Virginia
Definition
Site of John Brown's 1859 slave revolt.
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Battle of Manassas
Definition
Sometimes called the Battle of Bull Run. The Union army was defeated as they tried to quickly end the war by capturing the Confederate capital at Richmond.
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Battle of Sharpsburg
Definition
Also called the Battle of Antietam. Lee was forced to retreat back to Virginia in the single bloodiest day of the war. 6,000 soldiers were killed.
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1863
Definition
This year was the turning point in the Civil War
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Battle of Gettysburg
Definition
This pivotal Battle in July, 1863 marked the end of the Lee's ability to invade the North. 28,000 Americans died in thsi battle where the Union defeted the Confederacy.
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Vicksburg
Definition
The last Confederate stronghold on the Missiissippi River. It was captured in July, 1863 by General Ulysses S. Grant.
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Ulysses S. Grant
Definition
Union General who waged "total war" on the South.
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April, 1865
Definition
The Confederate capital Richmond, Virginia was captured by the Union army.
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Thirteenth Amendment
Definition
Freed the slaves.
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Fourteenth Amendment
Definition
Made former slaves full citizens of the United States.
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Fifteenth Amendment
Definition
Guaranteed the right to vote to former slaves.
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Doctrine of Popular Sovereignty
Definition
Stephen Douglas's doctrine that the population of a state or territory should vote on wether to be slave or free territory.
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Lincoln's First inaugural Address
Definition
1861 - This address made by President lincoln assured the SOuthern states that he would not interfere with slavery in the South, but that he would use force to "preserve the Union."
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Gettysburg Address
Definition
1863 - This brief two minute address stated that the purpose of the Civil War to ensure the survival of democracy.
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Second Inaugural Address
Definition
1865 - This address focused on endeing the Civil War and healing the nation.
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Boston Massacre
Definition
Name given a snow ball fight in Boston that erupted into a small battle in which Crispus Attucks was killed.
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Tariff or Duty
Definition
Tax on imported goods
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Stamp Act (Tax)
Definition
Placed a tax on common items such as playing cards, legal deeds and diplomas.
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