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Test #9
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History
3rd Grade
07/19/2011

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advantages of the North
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more free people, more factories, more railroads, and more firearms
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advantages of the South
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better leaders and did not have to invade
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famous photographer during the Civil War
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Matthew Brady
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Emancipation Proclamation
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announcement that stated the slaves in the states outside the Union were "forever free"
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Emancipation
Definition
freeing
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contraband
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property taken from the enemy
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amendments
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additions to the Constitution
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amend
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to change for the better, improve, correct
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meaning of the Union
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things that are united or together
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meaning of the Confederacy
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the Confederate states are those that left the United States to form a new country
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President of the Union
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Abraham Lincoln
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President of the Confederacy
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Jefferson Davis
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Union capital
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Washington, D.C.
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Confederate capital
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Richmond, VA
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Union General during the Battle of Bull Run
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General McDowell
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Confederate General during the Battle of Bull Run
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Thomas J. Jackson, nicknamed "Stonewall"
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both armies needed
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uniforms
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color of Union uniforms
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blue
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nickname of Union soldiers
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Yankees
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nickname for the Confederates
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Rebels
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color of Confederate uniforms
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gray
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Who did President Lincoln choose to replace General McDowell?
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General McClellan
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South's best general
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Robert E. Lee
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Where was the Battle of Bull Run fought?
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at Manassas Junction, VA
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ladies' silk gowns were used for
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making hot-air balloons to spy on the North
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describe the hospitals
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dirty, crowded, cold, damp, dark, sickening smells, and diseases
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duties of the nurses
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washing faces, passing out medicine, feeding the men, reading to the injured, writing letters home for the men, and comfort the families of dead soldiers
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Major Martin R. Delany
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first black officer in the Union Army
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regiments
Definition
groups
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major famous and longest battles of the American Civil War
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Battle of Gettysburg
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how long the Civil War lasted
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4 years
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Who did President Lincoln choose to lead the Union troops to victory?
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General Ulysses S. Grant
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Who surrendered?
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General Lee
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Where did the surrender take place?
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Appomattox Court House, VA
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Who shot President Lincoln?
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John Wilkes Booth
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Where did we get most of our information about the Civil War?
Definition
journals
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13th Amendment
Definition
said no slaves could be held anywhere in the United States
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accidently shot by his own men
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Stonewall Jackson
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battle that was the "worst single day in all the war"
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Battle of Antietam Creek
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