History Study Guide
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| Who became the president after the controversial election of 1824? | show 🗑
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| In 1828 many South Carolinians threatened to secede from the Union when Congress levied what critics called the ___. | show 🗑
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| show | state's right to ignore federal law
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| Why were the Cherokee considered to be a "civilized" Native American tribe? | show 🗑
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| Which group was forcible relocared by means of the "Trail of Tears"? | show 🗑
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| show | primarily Ireland, as well as Germany
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| Who organized the Seneca Falls Convention, which marked the beginning of an organized women's movement? | show 🗑
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| The temperence movement recognized ___. | show 🗑
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| show | the abolition of slavery
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| __ prevented Congress from hearing abolitionist petitions to end slavery. | show 🗑
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| show | Frederick Douglas
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| show | manifest destiny
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| Under Mexican rule the main appeal Texas held for American settlers was ___. | show 🗑
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| show | people who settled land without buying it
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| show | allowed them to buy their land for cheap
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| Which event leads to the U.S. declaring war on Mexico? | show 🗑
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| show | land from Mexico
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| show | bought land from Mexico
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| How did the results of the Mexican War increase sectional tensions in the United States? | show 🗑
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| show | a failed amendment to make all land from Mexico free territory
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| What is popular sovereignty? | show 🗑
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| show | it gave benefits to both sides
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| Why did the Compromise fo 1850 appeal to Southerners? | show 🗑
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| What was the unintended result of the Fugitive Slave Act? | show 🗑
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| show | a series of passages used to aid slaves to freedom
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| What happened when Kansas voted on whether or not to allow slavery? | show 🗑
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| show | Fugitive Slave Act
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| After the Kansas-Nebraska Act passed, Northerners headed for Kansas because ___. | show 🗑
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| The Dred Scott case led to ___ | show 🗑
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| In the Supreme Court case Dred Scott v. Sandford, what was Scott's claim? | show 🗑
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| What about Chief Justice Roger Taney's opinion in the Dred Scott case enraged many Northerners? | show 🗑
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| In In 1859, what fervent abolitionist attacked the arsenal at Harper's Ferry? | show 🗑
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| show | incite a slave rebellion
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| show | they feared Lincoln would end slavery
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| show | South Carolina
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| show | the Confederate States of America
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| Whom did the Southern states elect to be president of their new country? | show 🗑
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| What decision did Jefferson Davis make that triggered the beginning of the Cvil War? | show 🗑
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| What happened in Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee after the fall of Fort Sumter? | show 🗑
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| Why did Abraham Lincoln win the 1860 election? | show 🗑
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| show | charge taxes and tariffs
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| show | only had to defend land & military tradition
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| show | conscript soldiers (conscription)
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| In order to prevent people from supporting the Confederacy or resisting the draft, President Lincoln did which of the following? | show 🗑
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| What about the Confederate constitution made Jefferson Davis's attempts to conduct the war difficult? | show 🗑
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| show | caused more fatalities
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| show | a plan to surround and strangle the Confederacy
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| show | attrition
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| Lacking sufficient money from taxes or bonds, the Confederacy was forced to print paper money to pay its bills, causing rapid ___. | show 🗑
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| show | to preserve the Union
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| show | a Civil War nurse who formed the Red Cross
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| show | set slaves free in the South
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| Grant and Sherman's strategy of total war targeted not only the Confederate army but also ___. | show 🗑
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| show | it freed slaves everywhere
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| show | by installing a blockade
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| show | it limited the southern cotton trade
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| show | retreated back to the South
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| In 1863 food shortages in the South led to ___. | show 🗑
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| show | Black people became soldiers
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| show | nurses
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| Why did Lincoln promote Ulysses S. Grant to general in chief of the Union Army? | show 🗑
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| What effect did Sherman's march to the sea have on the Confederacy? | show 🗑
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| Where did General Lee surrender to General Grant? | show 🗑
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| show | President Lincoln was assassinated
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| The Battle of ___ marked the turning point of the Civil War. With more than 50,000 estimated casualties, the three-day engagement was the bloodiest single battle of the conflict. The Confederate Army lost this battle after the failure of Pickett's Charge. | show 🗑
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| The Battle of ___ marked the official beginning of the American Civil War. This Confederate victory was due to Union major Robert Anderson surrendering from exhaustion and outnumbered troops. After, both the North and South called for volunteers for war. | show 🗑
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| show | Fort Wagner
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| The Battle of ___, the deadliest one-day battle in American history, showed that the Union could defeat the Confederates. It also gave President Lincoln the confidence to issue the Emancipation Proclamation at a moment of strength instead of desperation. | show 🗑
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| Ulysses S. Grant's assault on Robert E. Lee's armies at ___ failed to capture the Confederacy's vital supply center and resulted in the longest siege in American warfare. Grant sieged the city for 292 days which ultimately cost the South the war. | show 🗑
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| show | Sherman's March to the Sea
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| show | Reconstruction
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| show | the right to vote
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| show | the Ku Klux Klan
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| show | to limit African Americans' rights
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| show | it left them in poverty
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| How did Radical Reconstruction affect African Americans' lives? | show 🗑
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| show | school system
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