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- - Slavery > North opposed > South supported- Missouri Compromise- Compromise of 1850- Kansas- Nebraska Act- Dred Scott case- forming of Republican Party
- 1. McClellan2. Ambrose Burnside (defeated at Fredericksburg)3. Joseph Hooker (defeated at Chancellorsville)4. George G. Meade (victory, continued leading Potomac)5. Ulysses S. Grant (very victorious)
- The Missouri Compromise split the US in half. North opposed slavery, south supported slavery.
- -General Robert E. Lee (renowned/ competent general)-home soil advantage-unified sentiment-early military successes-better military leaders
- What was the reason the irish immigrated to the US?
- What was the key issue in the US politics in 1848?
- Who captured the US arsenal at Harpers Ferry?
- Whose lawsuit to gain freedom was denied in a landmark Supreme Court decision?
- Which battle was considered the turning point of the Civil War?
- Which president took action against the Klu Klux Klan
- Who was shot by their loss at the first battle of Bull Run?
- How did the US government raise money to fight the war?
- What gave African Americans full citizenship?
- Who commanded Union forces at Shiloh, Tennessee, and was criticized after that battle for the high number of casualties suffered by the army?
- Who urged Lincoln to free the slaves as a war tactic, as well as a moral issue?
- Who founded a relief agency that later became the red cross?
- Which talented military officer resigned from US army and became commanding general of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia?
- What was the last straw to cause souther states to leave the union?
- Where did the planners of the women's right convention write the document that begins with "All men and women are created equal", organized demands
- How did some brave people help slaves escape to freedom?