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- How comes and help assist the British?
- Violent abolitionist who led the raid on Harpers Ferry
- Anti slavery groups considered john brown a
- Abraham Lincoln was what political party
- The first president of the confederate states of America
- The issue of slavery split the __ party in the election of __
- Banned slavery on lands acquired from Mexico
- which of the following was NOT an important advantage of ironclad ships?(a) they could resist burning(b) they could withstand cannon fire(c) they could splinter wooden ships(d) they could travel much faster than other ships
- which of the following abolished slavery in the North?(a) the Gettysburg Address(b) the Thirteenth Amendment(c) the Compromise of 1850(d) the Emancipation Proclamation
- As Great Britain expanded control over the American colonies, how did the colonists start to feel?
- during the war, ______ did NOT contribute to the food shortage in the South
- What happened with the Approval of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776?
- while serving in the Union army, African Americans faced all of the following EXCEPT:(a) discrimination(b) lower pay than whites(c) higher mortakity rates than whites(d) excessively high income taxes
- after seizing New Orleans, this Union admiral took control of much of the lower Mississippi, helping in the Union to achieve its goal of cutting the Confederacy in two
- t/fthe U.S. Sanitary Commission was set up to improve the hygienic conditions of army camps and to recruit and train -nurses-
- which of the following quotations is from the Gettysburg Address?(a) "We are not prepared for this suffrage. But we can learn"(b) "All persons held as slaves within any State . . . in rebellion against the United States, shall be . . . forever free"(c) "The world will little note, nor long remember that we say here, but it can never forget what they did here"(d) "You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, . . . determined people on earth
- t/fat -Fort Pillow-, the worst Confederate prison camp, where men were jammed together without shelter and drank from the same stream that served as their sewer, nearly a third of the prisoners died
- t/fearly in the war, the Confederacy tried to gain support from the nation of -France-
- t/f-Garland White- shot President Lincoln just five days after Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court House
- t/fin 1863, the -Confederacy- instituted the first income tax, taking a specified percentage of an individual's income