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What is the 1st Amendment.
This amendment gives you the right to free speech and to practice religion
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What is Manifest Destiny.
The idea that the United States should have the right to spread across North America.
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What is Uncle Tom's Cabin.
This novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe depicted slavery for citizens in the north.
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What is Gettysburg.
This battle was the turning point in the war and is the only battle on Northern Soil.
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What is the Preamble.
This is the first part of the Constitution.
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What is the 2nd amendment.
This amendment gives you the right to own a gun
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What is the cotton gin.
Eli Whitney created this machine that extended slavery until the Civil War.
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Who is Abraham Lincoln.
This man won the Election of 1860 as the first Republican President.
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What is Sherman's March.
This total war campaign destroyed much of the south.
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What is the Indian Removal Act.
This law forced Native Americans to move from their territory in Georgia to Oklahoma Territory.
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What is the Elastic Clause.
This clause of the Constitution gives Congress the right to do whatever is necessary and proper to protect American citizens
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What is the Spoils System.
Andrew Jackson helped start this system where you reward your party for helping you get elected by giving them jobs.
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What is the Missouri Compromise.
This compromise led to Maine being named a free state and Missouri a slave state in 1820.
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What is the Gettysburg Address.
Abraham Lincoln delivered this speech which recognized the efforts of soldiers but said they must keep fighting to preserve the union.
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What is the Emancipation Proclamation.
Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves in southern states in this document.
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What is the 4th Amendment.
This amendment to the Constitution protects citizens against unlawful searches and seizures.
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What is industrialization.
America went from a farming based economy to one where it focused on factories and mills. The process is known as this.
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What is the Kansas Nebraska Act.
This law allowed popular sovereignty to be the determining factor for slavery in two midwestern territories.
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What is the Massachusetts 54th Regiment.
This group of soldiers was the first African-American group of soldiers to fight for the US army and won an important battle for the union at Fort Wagner.
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What is the Compromise of 1850.
This compromise led to California becoming a free state and Utah and New Mexico territory being given popular sovereignty.
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What is the Supremacy Clause.
This clause of the Constitution gives the Federal Government more power than state governments when the two disagree
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What is the Seneca Falls Convention.
Female leaders met at this conference to discuss increasing their rights at citizens.
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Who is John Brown.
This man led raids on Harpers Ferry, VA and a massacre at Pottawatomie Creek.
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What is the Anaconda Plan.
This plan by General Winfield Scott included using the navy to surround the south and choke them out to surrender.
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What is the Dred Scott case.
This court case determined that all slaves were property and had no rights under the Constitution.
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