APUSH Period 5

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Which amendment officially ended slavery in the United States?

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13th

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Where were the first shots of the Civil War fired?

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Fort Sumter

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Sherman's March to the Sea was famous because

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His use of scorched earth policy (equating to total war)

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Proposal to prohibit slavery in any land acquired in the Mexican American War. It failed.

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Wilmot Proviso

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The purpose of the Freedman's Bureau was to

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provide work, education, and relief for former slaves.

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The Free Soil Party, like many northerners:

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was focused largely on the sole issue of preventing the expansion of slavery into new territory

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Black Codes were created to

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Restrict the rights of newly freed Black people

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5 bills passed by US Congress - Defused a 4 year political confrontation between slave and free states on territories acquired during Mexican American War

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Compromise of 1850

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What was "contraband" during the US Civil War?

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Term for escaped slaves or those who affiliated with Union forces

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Legislation that separated the South into 5 military districts under direct Republican control.

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Reconstruction Act of 1867