APUSH Period 5 Review

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Who were the Copperheads?

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Northern Democrats who opposed the war

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After which battle did Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation? Options: Gettysburg, Shiloh, Antietam, Vicksburg

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Antietam

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Who was Lincoln's running mate in 1864?

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Andrew Johnson

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The Union general who waged a war of absolute destruction of everything in his path from Atlanta to Savannah is known as?

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Sherman's March to the Sea

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Which battle is considered the turning point and doomed the Southern Cause? Options: Gettysburg, Antietam, Shiloh, Fredericksburg

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Gettysburg

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The Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves in the South.

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in the South

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The Free Soil Party, like many northerners:

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feared the expansion of slavery in the west would be competition for white labor.

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An increase in which of the following was the key part of the Kansas-Nebraska Act to attract Southern support?
Options: Transportation in the South
, Popular sovereignty
, Fugitive Slave Act
, Representation in Congress

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Popular sovereignty

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Which of the following was NOT a provision of the Compromise of 1850?
California would enter the Union as a free state.
The slave trade would be abolished in Washington, D.C.
The territories of New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and Nevada would be created.
A tougher fugitive slave law would be enacted.

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The territories of New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and Nevada would be created.

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Northerners were most upset by the Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision because it overturned the Missouri Compromise which meant

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slavery could now be allowed in the territories