History of the Americas Questions
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The Emancipation Proclamation did not actually free ___________ people in the South becayse the South was not following the _______ of the United States. The proclamation did, however, let everyone know that the ________ believed that slavery was ________.
What term is used to explain the freeing of someone from another person's control, or freeing them from slavery?
Lincoln did not view the Civil War as a battle to end ________. his main goal was to keep the ________ together. Lincoln did not _________ slavery, but he was afraid that he would lose the support of the _______ states if he moved against slavery.
In the Compromise of 1877, Rutherford B. Hayes (a Republican) would become president if the Republicans agreed to do what?
What was put into place by former Confederates in political offices that made African Americans out to be second class citizens?
What did Lincoln claim that the goals of the war were in his Gettysburg Address?
What plan intended to encircle the Confederate states and cut them off from the Union and all other possible allies?
Who became president after President Lincoln?
What helped maintain the voting rights of white men after 1877?
When the people living in an area decide on a law for themselves we refer to this as what?
The Emancipation Proclamation made it clear that this war was about what?
What do we call the series of escape routes and hiding places that enslaved people could use while running away from the South to the North or to Canada?
Which amendment formally abolished slavery in the U.S.?
What do we call the idea of weakening an enemy by crippling their ability to fight?
What organization was a welfare agency that helped the formerly enslaved become full U.S. citizens?
What political group agreed with Lincoln that the Union should just forgive the Confederate soldiers?
Where did General Lee and General Grant agree to meet to discuss the terms of surrender?
What political candidate running for president in 1860, opposed slavery but did not intend to end it in the South?
Under the Missouri Compromise, what state would enter as a free state?
What group of people wanted to end slavery throughout the whole U.S.?