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- What did the confederacy have a severe shortage of that led to skyrocketing prices and riots?
- Where did Confederate troops shoot more than 200 African American prisoners to death?
- What battle was the bloodiest single day battle in US history?
- The 13th Amendment was ratified in 1865 (year) and did what?
- Why was Rutherford B. Hayes selected by the Republicans to run forPresident?
- The time period known as Reconstruction began in 1865 with the ending ofthe ____ and ended in 1877 with the _____
- The Supreme Court case of _____ set up the concept of"separate but equal".
- Who was known as the "angel of the battlefield"
- After the war, who remained in the army and spent time fighting the Native Americans?
- Two groups that were hated by many white southerners were_____and ______ .
- 17. Laws passed to enforce segregation were known as
- What was the main reason why Lincoln didn't respond with force to the Confederate threat at Ft. Sumter?
- The Confederacy won an important battle here but lost a great general when Stonewall Jackson was accidentally shot by his own troops.
- Who promised Lincoln, "Whatever happens there will be no turning back"?
- Who led a march across Georgia and created a wide path of destruction?
- What kind of riots broke out among lower-class New York City workers in 1863?
- During the war, what powers of the federal government expanded?
- Early in the war, what nation did the Confederacy try to gain support from?
- What did Lincoln suspend to deal with dissent in the Union states
- This 3 day battle was considered to be the turning point of the Civil War