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Question 1

The right of new settlers to decide whether their territory would be a free or a slave state:

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popular sovereignty

Question 2

The Augusta Institute, founded for the education of African Americanmen in ministry / education

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Morehouse College

Question 3

____ was founded by veterans of the Confederate Army to fight againstReconstruction

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Ku Klux Klan

Question 4

The U.S. Constitutional right of Congress to remove the president fromoffice

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impeachment

Question 5

Lincoln expressed sorrow that the states had not been able to resolve differences peacefully

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Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address

Question 6

Laws written to control the lives of freed slaves in ways slaveholdershad formerly controlled

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Black Codes

Question 7

This freed all slaves held in the Confederate states but not the slaves held in the North.

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Emancipation Proclamation

Question 8

Appointed general in chief of Confederate armies; defeated at Battle of Gettysburg

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Robert E. Lee

Question 9

Grant achieved one of the Union’s major goals: He gained control of the Mississippi River

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Siege of Vicksburg

Question 10

Destroyed Atlanta; ended Confederate’s ability to fight

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William T. Sherman

Question 11

Famous Abolitionist: Fought with violence and killing, believed he was chosen by God,

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John Brown

Question 12

How did Congress try to help former slaves solve everyday problems likefood, clothing, jobs

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Freedmen’s Bureau

Question 13

Which amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude in theUnited States?

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Thirteenth Amendment

Question 14

Congress forced the southern states to reapply for admission to theUnion

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Compromise of 1877

Question 15

Confederate General; won First Battle of Bull Run; killed in the battleby his own men

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Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson

Question 16

Plan was begun by President Abraham Lincoln and carried out by PresidentAndrew Johnson

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Presidential Reconstruction

Question 17

Union troops burned Atlanta to the ground. What was the name of this battle?

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Battle for Atlanta

Question 18

It was the deadliest battle of the American Civil War

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Battle of Gettysburg

Question 19

Which factor provided a military advantage during the U.S. Civil War?

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80% of the nation’s factories existed in the North

Question 20

Court reject this claim, ruling no African American–even if free–could ever be a U.S. citizen.

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Dred Scott decision

Question 21

It was the deadliest one-day battle in American history

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Battle of Antietam

Question 22

Lincoln His speech helped raise the spirits of Northerners who had grown weary of the war

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Gettysburg Address

Question 23

President of Confederate States of America, 1861–1865

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Jefferson Davis

Question 24

Appointed commanding general of Union armies by Lincoln

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Ulysses S. Grant

Question 25

Which amendment defined U.S. citizenship as including all persons born in theUnited States

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Fourteenth Amendment

Question 26

In 1854, Congress repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and replaced it with what new law?

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Kansas-Nebraska Act

Question 27

Which was an immediate result of Republican Abraham Lincoln being elected president in 1860?

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South Carolina voted to secede from the US

Question 28

The legal rule, before a judge to determine if the prisoner is being legally held in custody.

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Habeas corpus

Question 29

Confederates staged a 24-hour bombardment against a federal fort in the harbor of Charleston

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Sumter

Question 30

Which amendment removed restrictions on voting based on race, color, orever having been a slave

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Fifteenth Amendment

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