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- Q1Northern Civil War strategy to starve the South by blockading seaports and controlling the Mississippi RiverAnaconda Plan30s
- Q216th President of the United States saved the Union during the Civil War and emancipated the slaves; was assassinated by Booth (1809-1865)Abraham Lincoln30s
- Q3Proclamation issued by Lincoln, freeing all slaves in areas still at war with the Union.Emancipation Proclamation30s
- Q4leading Union general in the American Civil War.Grant first reached national prominence by taking Forts Henry and Donelson in 1862 in the first Union victories of the war. The following year, his brilliant campaign ending in the surrender of Vicksburg secured Union control of the Mississippi and—with the simultaneous Union victory at Gettysburg—turned the tide of the war in the North'sU.S. Grant30s
- Q5Confederate general who had opposed secession but did not believe the Union should be held together by forceRobert E. Lee30s
- Q6A black slave, had lived with his master for 5 years in Illinois and Wisconsin Territory. Backed by interested abolitionists, he sued for freedom on the basis of his long residence on free soil. The ruling on the case was that He was a black slave and not a citizen, so he had no rights.Dred Scott30s
- Q7John Brown's scheme to invade the South with armed slaves, backed by sponsoring, northern abolitionists; seized the federal arsenal; Brown and his remnants were caught by Robert E. Lee and the US Marines; Brown was hangedHarper's Ferry30s
- Q8Lincoln, the Republican candidate, won because the Democratic party was split over slavery. As a result, the South no longer felt like it has a voice in politics and a number of states seceded from the Union.Election of 186030s
- Q9Federal fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina; the confederate attack on the fort marked the start of the Civil WarFort Sumter30s
- Q10A large battle in the American Civil War, took place in southern Pennsylvania from July 1 to July 3, 1863. The battle is named after the town on the battlefield. Union General George G. Meade led an army of about 90,000 men to victory against General Robert E. Lee's Confederate army of about 75,000. Gettysburg is the war's most famous battle because of its large size, high cost in lives, location in a northern state, and for President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.Gettysburg30s
- Q11the period after the Civil War in the United States when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the UnionReconstruction30s
- Q12Famous as the site of the surrender of the Confederate Army under Robert E. Lee to Union commander Ulysses S. GrantAppomattox Court House30s
- Q131864 Proposed far more demanding and stringent terms for reconstruction; required 50% of the voters of a state to take the loyalty oath and permitted only non-confederates to vote for a new state constitution; Lincoln refused to sign the bill, pocket vetoing it after Congress adjourned.Wade-Davis Bill30s
- Q14Southern laws designed to restrict the rights of the newly freed black slavesBlack Codes/Jim Crow Laws30s
- Q15Organization run by the army to care for and protect southern Blacks after the Civil WarFreedmen's Bureau30s