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- What was the price of slaves after the invention of the cotton gin? Before?
- Movement that thought slavery needed to be stops slowly, and in steps
- Publisher of The Liberator, Father of the Abolitionist movement
- Early pioneers who settled on land they didn't own
- Overall how manly states secede from the Union?
- McClellan attacked Confederate forces at Antietam until Lee's army was clearly defeated.
- After Lee had led the South to several victories, the Confederate experienced a defeat in July 1863 at the:
- McClellan appreciated the "cigar wrapper" that one of Lee's couriers lost before the encounter here
- What important city fell to Union forces as a result of the efforts of Admiral David Farragut?
- A siege of this city by the Union brought starvation and surrender.
- The Emancipation Proclamation would have allowed Confederate states to keep their slaves if they had quit fighting.
- Which one of the following generals (NEVER) served as the Union commander during the Civil War?
- What two warships were involved in a clash that had a significant effect on the future of naval warfare?
- In the battle of Gettysburg, what famous Confederate attack through an open field resulted in the loss of thousands of Confederate soldiers?
- The Civil War can be considered the first modern war because of all of the new military and technological improvements that were employed
- The Twent-Negro Law favored rich Southern Planters.
- Andrew Johnson disagreed with many policies in order to maintain a working relationship with Congress.
- The onlooking ladies and gentlemen discovered that war was no picnic.
- Achievements in foreign affairs during the administration of Andrew Johnson included all of the following (EXCEPT)
- What term was used for former slaves fowling the Civil War?