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- While Lee was trying to circle Washington D.C. to approach the city from the north, he met Union troops outside the small Pennsylvania town of __________ and engaged them for three days there.
- Through their plot to kill President Lincoln and others, the conspirators sought to ________________.[choose all that apply]
- After General Joseph E. Johnston was seriously wounded at the Battle of Seven Pines, who took command of the Army of Northern Virginia?
- Unlike Lincoln's Proclamation of Amnesty, Johnson's Proclamation excluded from pardon all southerners who:
- The Battle of __________ nearly annihilated the Union army in the West, but the Confederate high command's hesitation allowed the Union army to regroup.
- In one sentence, describe how Lincoln responded to the Union Army's defeat after the Seven Days Battle?
- On April 9, 1865, General Robert E. Lee of the Confederacy surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia to _______________.
- During the Election of 1864, Abraham Lincoln's nomination was almost blocked by the ___________ Republicans.
- The western theater of the American Civil War focused on this city that was essential for the Union to gain control of the Mississippi River.
- General Winfield Scott proposed the ________________ __________________, a system that called for the north to encircle and divide the Confederacy.
- The Coercive Acts passed by Parliament become known as what in the colonies?
- What Native American tribe do the men dress up as during the Boston Tea Party?
- Whose ship, Named the Liberty, was taken by the British after he was "found smuggling?"
- Who was the cousin of Sam Adams that representing the British soldiers on trial after the Boston Massacre?
- What was the name of the ocmpany that made a deal with Parliament to begin a monopoly on the tea trade?
- In what two cities wiere the Sons of Liberty successful in stopping the tea ships from entering?
- Which one of the American forefathers said that the coloneis should pay back the money that was wasted in the Boston Tea Party?
- Identify the factors that led to the Industrial Boom of the 20th Century.
- Which of the following goods were NOT taxed under the Townshend Acts?
- Industrilization caused people to move from where to where