A review of United States History to 1877.
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| Coastal Plain | show 🗑
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| show | Old, eroded mountains (oldest mountain range in North America)
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| show | Wrapped around the Hudson Bay in a horseshoe shape
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| Interior Lowland | show 🗑
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| Great Plains | show 🗑
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| Rocky Mountains | show 🗑
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| show | determines the directional flow of rivers
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| show | Located west of the Rocky Mountains and east of the Sierra Nevadas and the Cascades Varying elevations containing isolated mountain ranges
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| Death Valley | show 🗑
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| Coastal Range | show 🗑
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| The Atlantic Ocean | show 🗑
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| show | was the gateway to the west.
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| Inland port cities | show 🗑
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| The Mississippi and Missouri rivers were used to | show 🗑
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| show | was explored by the Spanish.
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| show | forms the border with Mexico.
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| show | provided the French and Spanish with exploration routes to Mexico and other parts of America.
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| The St. Lawrence River | show 🗑
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| show | is located on the Nottoway River in southeastern Virginia.
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| show | 18,000 years ago makes it one of the oldest archaeological sites in North America.
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| Inuit | show 🗑
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| Kwakiutl | show 🗑
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| Lakota people | show 🗑
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| Pueblo tribes | show 🗑
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| Iroquois homeland includes | show 🗑
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| Natural resources | show 🗑
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| show | People working to produce goods and services
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| Capital resources | show 🗑
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| show | includes trying to understand Cherokee, Chickataw, Inuit, Sioux and Seminole languages.
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| Ghana, Mali, and Songhai became powerful by | show 🗑
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| The Portuguese | show 🗑
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| show | was established as an economic venture.
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| show | the first permanent English settlement in North America (1607), was an economic venture by the Virginia Company.
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| Plymouth Colony | show 🗑
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| show | was settled by the Puritans to avoid religious persecution.
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| show | was settled by the Quakers, who wanted freedom to practice their faith without interference.
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| Georgia | show 🗑
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| King George III: | show 🗑
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| show | British general who surrendered at Yorktown
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| John Adams: | show 🗑
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| George Washington: | show 🗑
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| show | Major author of the Declaration of Independence
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| show | Outspoken member of the House of Burgesses; inspired colonial patriotism with his “Give me liberty or give me death” speech
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| show | Prominent member of the Continental Congress; helped frame the Declaration of Independence; helped gain French support for American independence
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| show | Enslaved African American who wrote poems and plays supporting American independence and who eventually gained her freedom
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| show | Patriot who made a daring ride to warn colonists of British arrival
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| show | Colonists in Boston were shot after taunting British soldiers.
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| show | Samuel Adams and Paul Revere led patriots in throwing tea into Boston Harbor to protest tea taxes.
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| show | Delegates from all colonies except Georgia met to discuss problems with Great Britain and to promote independence.
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| show | The first armed conflicts of the Revolutionary War
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| show | The colonies declared independence from Great Britain (July 4, 1776).
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| Battle of Saratoga: | show 🗑
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| Surrender at Yorktown: | show 🗑
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| Signing of the Treaty of Paris: | show 🗑
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| Colonial advantages | show 🗑
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| show | decided how many votes each state would have in the Senate and the House of Representatives.
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| show | three separate branches of government:
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| show | the effort to draft a new constitution.
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| The Bill of Rights | show 🗑
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| Louisiana Purchase | show 🗑
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| In the Lewis and Clark expedition, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark explored the Louisiana Purchase and the Oregon Territory | show 🗑
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| show | Spain gave this to the United States through a treaty.
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| show | was added to the United States after it became an independent republic.
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| Oregon | show 🗑
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| California | show 🗑
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| “Manifest Destiny” | show 🗑
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| show | Eli Whitney. It increased the production of cotton and thus increased the need for slave labor to cultivate and pick the cotton.
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| show | worked to invent the reaper. McCormick was an entrepreneur who brought the reaper to market. The reaper increased the productivity of the American farmer.
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| show | Robert Fulton.
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| The steam locomotive | show 🗑
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| show | People in each state would decide the slavery issue (“popular sovereignty”).
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| Missouri Compromise (1820): | show 🗑
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| Border states (slave states) | show 🗑
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| Abraham Lincoln | show 🗑
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| Jefferson Davis | show 🗑
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| show | Was general of the Union army that defeated Lee
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| Robert E. Lee | show 🗑
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| Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson | show 🗑
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| Frederick Douglass | show 🗑
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| show | began the war.
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| The first Battle of Manassas (Bull Run) | show 🗑
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| The signing of the Emancipation Proclamation | show 🗑
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| The Battle of Vicksburg | show 🗑
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| show | was the turning point of the war; the North repelled Lee’s invasion.
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| show | at Appomattox Court House in 1865 ended the war.
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| Disease | show 🗑
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| show | African American surveyor who helped design the plans for Washington DC.
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| show | claimed the Southwest of the present-day United States for Spain.
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| France: Samuel de Champlain | show 🗑
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| Robert La Salle | show 🗑
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| England: | show 🗑
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| The Portuguese made voyages of discovery along | show 🗑
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| Articles of Confederation | show 🗑
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| show | a written guarantee of individual rights (e.g., freedom of speech, freedom of religion).
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| show | Federal court system was established & The Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution of the United States of America.
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| show | helped complete the design for the city.
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| show | A two-party system emerged during his administration.
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| Thomas Jefferson | show 🗑
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| show | new land west of the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean.
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| show | The War of l812 caused European nations to gain respect for the United States.
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| James Monroe | show 🗑
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| Monroe Doctrine | show 🗑
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| Which groups settled New England | show 🗑
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| show | economic opportunities.
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| show | Jamestown
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| The primary pull factors for European colonization in North America was | show 🗑
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| show | The American Indians worried about food sources for the future.
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| The New England region is present day | show 🗑
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| show | Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania
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| The Southern region is present day | show 🗑
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| show | lumber, shipbuilding, trade, molasses, fur trade, fishing, and subsistence farming
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| The Middle Atlantic region products & commerce include | show 🗑
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| show | cash-crops, indigo, rice, tobacco, and plantations
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| show | religious freedom
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| Middle Atlantic's reason for settlement was | show 🗑
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| The Southern region's reason for settlement was | show 🗑
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| What groups of people made up the New England region. | show 🗑
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| show | on shipbuilding and fishing
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| The economy of the middle colonies was based primarily on | show 🗑
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| show | the New England
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| show | Large-scale agriculture required extensive labor
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| show | the Proclamation of 1763. This act prohibited settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains. Colonists were angered by it and ignored it
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| show | government, tolerance
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| New England colonies used ______ in the operation of government. | show 🗑
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| show | family status and the ownership of land.
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| show | cheap
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| Most plantation labor needs eventually came to be satisfied by the | show 🗑
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| show | Stamp Act, 1765
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| show | Georgia, The Declaration of Resolves. King George III ordered British troops to put down the rebellion.
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| On April 19, 1775, Minutemen and British troops met at _______. Shots were fired, and ___ colonists were killed. More fighting broke out as the British moved on to _____ . At least 273 British soldiers were killed or wounded on the march back to ___ . | show 🗑
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| Patriots remained loyal to Britain and agreed with taxation as a means of paying for Britain protecting settlers from Indian attacks, for covering the cost of administering the Empire, and for defending against a French comeback. | show 🗑
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| show | Common Sense
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| show | Thomas Paine
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| show | Lexington and Concord
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| show | France
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| Which are the key principles of the Declaration of Independence? | show 🗑
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| show | they could overthrow the government for a new one.
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| "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." is a quote from | show 🗑
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| show | He was a strong commander of the Continental Army.
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| show | it established a weak national government
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| show | James Madison
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| The concepts used when drafting the Bill of Rights were derived from which documents? | show 🗑
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| show | a written guarantee of individual rights.
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| In a federal system of government, power is shared between | show 🗑
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| show | states had one vote regardless of size.
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| Describe the Missouri Compromise | show 🗑
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| show | California would enter as a free state. Slavery would be decided by popular sovereignty in Utah and New Mexico territories.
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| Describe the Kansas-Nebraska Act | show 🗑
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| show | acquired during the administration of Thomas Jefferson, doubled the size of the United States.
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| show | the South
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| show | Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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| April 9, 1865: Generals ____ and ____ met at a farmhouse in Appomattox, Virginia, to sign the agreement that would end the Civil War. | show 🗑
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| President of the United States during the Civil War; insisted that the Union be held together, by force if necessary | show 🗑
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| U.S. senator who became president of the Confederate States of America | show 🗑
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| Union military commander, who won victories over the South after several other Union commanders had failed | show 🗑
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| Confederate general of the Army of Northern Virginia (opposed secession, but did not believe the Union should be held together by force); urged Southerners to accept defeat and unite as Americans again. | show 🗑
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| Former enslaved African American who became a prominent abolitionist and urged Lincoln to recruit former enslaved African Americans to fight in the Union army | show 🗑
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| show | collection of states.
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| show | Gettysburg Address.
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| The Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, began July 1, 1863. A total of 51,000 Union and Confederate soldiers lost their lives in this battle. The Union victory at Gettysburg was ___________________. | show 🗑
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| April 12, 1861: ________ forces fired on Fort Sumter in the Charleston, South Carolina, harbor. | show 🗑
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| April 14, 1865: just a few days after Lee’s surrender at Appomattox, Abraham Lincoln was | show 🗑
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| show | Fort Sumter.
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| Which former slave became a prominent abolitionist and encouraged Lincoln to recruit former slaves to fight for the Union? | show 🗑
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| show | Antietam.
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| "I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free; . . . The excerpt above is from which important document? | show 🗑
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| President Lincoln believed it is ___________ for states to secede. | show 🗑
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| show | 1865.
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| Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to | show 🗑
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