Ch 10 & 11 Study Guide
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Abraham Lincoln won the election of 1860 without southern support
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The Fugitive Slave Act required ordinary citizens to help capture runaways
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The book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, depicted African Americans as real people imprisoned in dreadful circumstances
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Outraged Southerners believed that the Constitution gave them the right to veto the Wilmot Proviso
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Dred Scott was a Missouri slave who had taken by his master to live in free territory before returning with his master to
Missouri
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With few financial resources and little industry, the South suffered more inflation and critical shortages during the Civil War
than did the North
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At the start of the Civil War, the South had more trained military leaders than did the North because most of the country’s
military colleges were in the South
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The North experienced an economic boom because of the Civil War
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As the Civil War began, President Lincoln’s goal was to preserve the Union, even if it meant allowing slavery to continue
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After the battle of Gettysberg, Lee’s forces remained on the defensive for the rest of the war
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Many historians consider Uncle Tom’s Cabin, by Harriett Beecher Stowe, to be one of the causes of the Civil War
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Cotton Whigs were Northern Whigs who had ties to Northern cloth manufacturers and voted with Southern Whigs to
nominate Zachery Taylor for president
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The politician who said “a house divided against itself cannot stand” was Abraham Lincoln
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Because of his role in promoting the Missouri Compromise in 1820 and solving the nullification crisis in 1833, Henry Clay
was nicknamed “The Great Compromiser.”
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The Confederacy chose Jefferson Davis as its president
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Pickets Charge at Gettysberg resulted in the slaughter of Confederate troops
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Before burning Atlanta, General Sherman ordered all civilians to leave
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Clara Barton left her job in a patent office to nurse soldiers on the battlefields of the Civil War
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The famous quote “a nation conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal” was part
of the Gettysburg Address
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Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse
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In 1849 thousands of people came to California because- Gold had been discovered there
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The Know-Nothings were anti-Catholic and nativist
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The original purpose of the Gadsen Purchase was to create a route for a railroad
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In his inaugural speech, President Lincoln repeated his commitment not to interfere with slavery where it already existed
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After the Kansas-Nebraska Act passed, Northerners headed for Kansas because they wanted to create an antislavery
majority there
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Lincoln wanted to prevent Maryland from seceding because if it did Washington DC would be surrounded by Confederate
territory
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Most members of the Free-Soil Party opposed the spread of slavery because they believed that allowing slavery to expand
would make it difficult for free men to find work
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The Wilmot Proviso, which never passed, would have prohibited slavery in any territory gained from Mexico
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The most famous “conductor” on the Underground Railroad was Harriet Tubman
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The Confederate Constitution stated that each state was independent
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The Supreme Court decision in the Dred Scott case considered Free Soil unconstitutional
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Robert E. Lee did not accept command of the Union troops because he could/would not fight against Virginia
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John Brown’s intention in raiding the arsenal at Harpers Ferry was to arm enslaved people and begin an insurrection against
slaveholders
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Lincoln suspended writs of habeas corpus. As a result a person could be imprisoned indefinitely without trial
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Citizens of the South suffered food shortages during the Civil War because the South’s transportation system had collapsed
and Union troops occupied several important agricultural regions
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In response to the South’s treatment of African American troops, Lincoln stopped all prisoner exchanges
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Jefferson Davis wanted to fight a war of attrition, in which the South would avoid large battles and force the North to
exhaust its resources
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The prison in the South where 13,000 captured Union soldiers died was Andersonville
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The capture of Chattanooga was an important objective for Union forces because they would then control a major railroad
running south to Atlanta
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The North enjoyed the following were advantages over the South- A larger population, more industry, and more miles of
railroad tracks
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Benjamin Grierson’s forces traveled 600 miles in order to distract Confederate forces so Grant could land south of Vicksburg
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In the election of 1864, candidate George McClellan promised to stop the fighting and negotiate
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The Emancipation Proclamation decreed freedom for all enslaved people In the states at war with the Union
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The Confederate commander at Vicksburg surrendered because his troops were starving
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The Trent Affair brought the Union close to war with Britain
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Hardtack was a type of biscuit
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After Lincoln fired McClellan, he gave command of the army to a series of generals, including Burnside, Hooker, Meade, and
Grant
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The Thirteenth (13th)Amendment to the Constitution banned slavery in the US
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Farragut’s victory at Mobile Bay was important because blockade runners could no longer use any port on the Gulf of
Mexico east of the Mississippi River