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Who is Robert E. Lee?
Appointed to be head of all Confederate forces
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What is Missouri Compromise?
Established imaginary line of free states and slave states
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What is secession?
Formal withdrawal of a state from the Union
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What is Richmond, Virginia?
Capital of the Confederacy
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Who is Clara Barton?
Civil War Nurse who started the Red Cross
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Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
Appointed to be head of all the Union forces
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What is Harper's Ferry?
John Brown attempting to lead a Slave Uprising by arming slaves with Federal weapons
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What is Ku Klux Klan?
The name of the “social club” that showed extreme prejudice towards African Americans in the South
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What is Confederacy?
name of the “country” formed from the states that left the Union
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What is Dred Scott?
Supreme Court decision that stated slaves were not citizens but property and do not have the same rights as citizens
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Who is Harriet Tubman?
Most effective conductor of the Underground Railroad
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What is Battle of Shiloh?
Bloodiest battle of the civil war
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What is 15th Amendment?
Guaranteed that a citizen’s right to vote would not be denied “on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”
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What is Border States?
Kentucky, Delaware, Maryland, Missouri, West Virginia
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What is Scorched Earth?
Tactic used by General Sherman as he marched through the South
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What is a Scalawag?
White Southerners who joined the Republican Party hoping to gain political office
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What is Louisiana Purchase
Property purchased by Thomas Jefferson from France that led to controversy
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What is Ten-Percent Plan?
Plan created post Civil War to pardon all confederates except high-ranking officials
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What is Ford's Theater?
Location of Lincoln's assassination
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Who is Hiram Revels?
African American Senator from Mississippi
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What is a Carpetbagger?
Northerners who moved to the South after the war.
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What is Battle of Antietam?
Led to the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation
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What is Fugitive Slave Act?
The reason that Northerners started helping slaves escape to Canada because it could not act there
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What is Appomattox, Virginia?
Location of General Lee's surrender
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Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
First U.S. President to lose the popular vote but win the Electoral College
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