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What was cotton gin?
a machine that was built by Eli Whitney that took seeds out of cotton faster than by hand and made cotton a valuable crop.
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What was a abolitionist?
A active person that would speak out against slavery and try to help slaves.
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What is a compromise?
An agreement that satisfies both sides.
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What was a tariff?
Taxes that the government put on products imported from other countries.
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What was ironclad?
A metal that outdated wood that was used to build the Merrimac and the Moniter.
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What was the transcontinental railroad?
A railroad that would connect the East to the West.
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What was the secret network of hiding places and escape routes between the southern states and Canada.
The Underground Railroad
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What legislation said that no other state north of an established boundary could enter the Union as a slave state?
The Missouri Compromise
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What was the name of the twenty-two northern or western states during the Civil War?
The Union
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What was the name of the eleven southern states that seperated from the Union during the Civil War?
The Confederate Government
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President Lincolns announcement that all slaves would be considered free in any state fighting against the Union.
The Emancipation Proclomation
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Give two direct results during the Civil War
- 1. There would be no more slavery
- 2. No state could leave the Union
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What was the mail route between St. Joseph, MO, and Sacramento, CA, whose carriers traveled on horseback.
The Pony Express
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What school did Booker T. Washington start in Alabama?
The Tuskegee Institute
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Why was the Battle of Fort Sumter important?
It started the Civil War when Confederates attacked it.
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What was important when the Merrimac and the Moniter attacked each other?
It showed how wood was no longer needed.
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Why was the Battle of Bull Run so important?
It showed how General Jackson got his nickname, "Stonewall" because he fought against overwhellming odds.
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Why was the Battle of Gettysburg so important?
It was the turning point of the war
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Why was the Battle of Vicksburg so important?
It made it so that the Confederates were cut in half so they couldn't send supplies to each other.
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Who was Eli Whitney?
The man who built cotton gin
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Who was Sojourner Truth?
A abolitionist who went around and spoke out against slavery
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Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe?
A woman who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin which potrayed the evils of slavery
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Who was Harriet Tubman?
A black woman who freed slaves
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Who was Frederick Douglass?
An outspoken black man who hired black men to fight for Lincoln
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Who was Clara Barton?
A woman who helped men during the Civil War and also started the first American Red Cross
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Who was Booker T. Washington?
The man who discovered the Tuskegee Institute
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Who was George Washington Carver?
A black man who found many uses for the peanut and amazed the world with his abilities
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The 16th President
Abraham Lincoln
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Democrat who ran against Lincoln as Senator
Stephen A. Douglas
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President of the Confederate States of America
Jefferson Davis
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Who was the person who said, "The old flag never touched the ground."
William Harvey Carney
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Leader of the Union troops who was victorious at Vicksburg
Ulysses S. Grant
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Head of the Confederate army
Robert E. Lee
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Who was one of the greatest military heroes of the Civil War?
Stonewall Jackson
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Union General who captured Atlanta and "marched to the sea"
William T. Sherman
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Actor who killed Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
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Vice President who became President after Lincoln's death
Andrew Johnson
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What was significant about Richmond Virginia?
It was the Capitol of the Confederate States
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What was significant about Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia?
It was where General Lee surrendered
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What was significant about Omaha, Nebraska?
It was where the Union Pacific Company started work on the transcontinental railroad
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What was significant about Sacramento, California?
It was where the Central Pacific Company started work on the transcontinental railroad
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What was significant about promontory Point, Utah?
It was the place where the transcontinental railroad ended
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