APUSH Period 5 Review

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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 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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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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Which battle is considered the turning point and doomed the Southern Cause?

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Battle of Gettysburg

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Why did the U.S. and Mexico go to war? Options: The U.S. and Mexico disagreed over their boundary, America's continued desire to achieve manifest destiny, The U.S. recently annexed Texas

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All of these answers are correct

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Advantage of the Confederacy at the beginning of the Civil War.

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King Cotton Complex

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Lincoln was hesitant to support abolition early in the war because he:

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feared losing the support of the slaveholding border states within the Union.

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The GREATEST strength of the North was: its military leadership, its navy, its moral high ground, its economy

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its economy