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- The largest acquisition of land purchased from France by US President Thomas Jefferson
- The period before the Civil War in the United States is called the
- A blacksmith who traveled frequently; organized a slave revolt in August 1800.
- who of Richmond, Virginia folded himself in a box and mailed himself to Philadelphia
- The movement to resettle Black people in Africa
- A huge band of cotton farms stretching across the southern United States as far west as Texas
- What conductor said to have threatened fugitives with a gun to keep them quiet
- One key change immediately following the Civil War aimed at achieving the "racial justice" that Blight describes was theAestablishment of a constitutional basis for citizenship and voting rightsBcreation of new agencies to ensure racial integration in employmentCcampaign by the federal government to eliminate povertyDdesegregation of the United States armed forces
- Of all the battles we have discussed so far, which one had the most single-day casualties?
- What was the North's primary (main) goal during the Civil War?
- Which general earned his famous nickname at the Battle of Bull Run? How did he earn it?
- What ended the use of battleships made of wood?
- What is another name for the Battle of Bull Run?
- What document did Lincoln create which freed the slaves in the South?
- What outcome did the battle of Chancellorsville have on Southern strategy?
- In Johnson's reconstruction plan, what were states finally able to do?
- What principle did the Kansas-Nebraska Act introduce for determining the slave status of the states?
- What group did Grant attempt to defeat?
- Vocab- negative nickname for a white southern republican after civil war
- Vocab- system of farming in which a person works for someone else's land and receives 1/3 of profit. The other 2/3 go to the landowner for rent/materials