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What did Sojourner Truth advocate? |
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What was a major cause of slavery expansion in the South during the early 1800s? |
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The invention of the cotton gin. |
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Explain the relationship between the women's rights and abolition movements. |
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Both movements fought for civil rights for minority groups. |
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The amount of people that vote. |
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What type of people did Andrew Jackson support? |
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He was a black slave preacher that tried to lead a slave rebellion. |
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What was the significance of Dred Scott v. Sandford? |
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It was a supreme court decision that said African-Americans weren't citizens, which caused an uproar. |
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Someone who is anti-slavery. |
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Which region had more resources prior to the Civil War? |
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A wound or fatality in war. |
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How did the Civil War affect the northern economy? |
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It became more industrialized. |
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How did John Brown feel about slavery? |
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He hated it; predicted a war would be fought over it. |
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What was Uncle Tom's Cabin? |
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A book writen by Harriet Beecher Stowe about slave life; a cause for the Civil War. |
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Why did Southerners oppose Lincoln's 1860 election? |
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They feared he would end their way of lifeby ending slavery. |
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When you put your personal region ahead of others. |
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What did Lincoln think about slavery before the Civil War? |
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He wanted to stop it from spreading and predicted it would eventually cease to exist. |
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What was Lincoln's primary goal when the Civil War began? |
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Why was Gettysburn important? |
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It was a turning point in the Civil War. |
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How did Lincoln plan to treat the South after the Civil War? |
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Describe the Emancipation Proclamation. |
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Lincoln's freeing of slaves in Confederate states only; January 1st, 1863. |
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How did the Emancipation Proclamation affect African-Americans? |
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It encouraged them to join the Union Army. |
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What happened in Appomattox Court House? |
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Lee surrendured to Grant. |
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What did freedmen do after the Civil War? |
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Sharecropping and looked for family |
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What did the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments have in common? |
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They all had to do with African-American's civil rights. |
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What did the Freedmen's Bureau do? |
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It helped former slaves after the Civil War. |
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What was Lincoln's primary goal after the Civil War? |
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It was to return Southern representation to Congress. |
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Ways to restrict black's rights in the South after the Civil War. |
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Describe the impeachment process. |
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The House formally accuses the government official of improper conduct, then the Senate must hold a trial to decide on conviction or aquittal. |
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What did the 15th Amdendment do and how was it avoided? |
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It gave black men the right to vote and violence at a local level was used to terrorize blacks instead of at a government level. |
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Who were carpetbaggers and what did Southerners think of them? |
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They were Northerners who went to the South after the Civil War. Southerners found them suspicious. |
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What was the Compromise of 1877? |
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It ended Reconstruction with the election of Hayes and troops were removed from the South. |
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