Civil War and Reconstruction

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What was the Nullification Crisis of 1832 centered around?

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Southern opposition to tariffs.

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How did the South react to John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry?

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Alarmed because they saw it as a violent threat and would instigate slave rebellions.

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Which Supreme Court case ruled that slaves were property, not citizens?

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Dred Scott.

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What was Abraham Lincoln's stated purpose for going to war against the Confederate States?

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Preserving the Union.

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What right did Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus allow him to do during the Civil War?

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Put 13,000 Confederate sympathizers in jail without charges.

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What is correct about the Emancipation Proclamation?

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Only freed slaves in southern territory.

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What did Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address primarily express?

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His determination to maintain the Union.

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Why was the Battle of Antietam important in the Civil War?

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It was the bloodiest single battle of the war.

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Who was the Commanding General for the Union Army?

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Ulysses S. Grant.

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Who was the Commanding General of the Confederacy?

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Robert E. Lee.