Practice Flashcard - Civil War and Reconstruction

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What do you call a person who was opposed to slavery and worked toward ending it?

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Abolitionist

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This means that the people get to decide on an issue, including whether or not to allow slavery in their territory

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Popular Sovereignty

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The US Supreme Court decided that this man was still just a slave, even though he had lived in a free territory, setting the stage for slavery to be legal everywhere.

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Dred Scott

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Which of the following was NOT an advantage of the North? More factories, Larger population, Better railroads, Most of the nation's best generals

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Most of the nation's best generals

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What were the major causes of the Civil War? (List all that apply) Expanded Fugitive Slave Laws, Slavery, Lincoln winning the election of 1860, Westward Expansion, All of the above

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All of the above

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What Amendment grants citizenship to all person born on American soil except for Native Americans?

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14th Amendment

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Sharecropping and Tenant Farming is:

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A system of farming that left freed slaves and poor whites in debt to wealthy land owners and tied to the land

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Sharecropping and Tenant Farming is:

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A system of farming that left freed slaves and poor whites in debt to wealthy land owners and tied to the land

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What laws sought to restrict the freedoms of African Americans after slavery ended and they become the basis of Jim Crow Laws?

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Black Codes

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Slavery is outlawed in the US by this amendment:

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13th Amendment