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Why is it that they say slavery started the Civil War?Popularity: 43
If the Union could have survived if the Southern states had left why did the North say they were fighting to save the Union?
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Could the North have survived as a Union if the southern states had left?
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What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
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At the grave of Traveller what is the significance of the money left at the grave in Washington?
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Who was in the government of the Confederacy?
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How long did the Compromise of 1850 last in the Civil War?
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What were important battles in the US Civil War?
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Where can you find a list of all Civil War battles and who won them?
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Who won the battle of Antietam?
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How did the Union depend on the Confederacy?
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What would happen if the North would not have industrialized and went to war with the South?
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Could the Civil War have been avoided at a late stage?
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How did the advantages for each side translate into victory or defeat as the US Civil War progressed?
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What year did the Civil War begin and end?
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How many states supported the Union government?
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Why was Jeff Davis a popular name for a horse in both the North and the South?
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What is the reason why loss of life was so high during the Civil War?
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Why did John Brown invade Harper's Ferry?
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In the Civil War how did the South react to the Emancipation Proclamation?
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If Lincoln hated slavery so much why didn't he free the slaves at the war's beginning rather than waiting until January 1 1863?
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What states were a part of the Confederate States of America?
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Did Civil War soldiers write letters in two directions making a grid pattern on the paper when paper was scarce?
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What type of sports would people play during the time of the Civil War?
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What did the South's CSS Alabama do?
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What did John Buford do to make the Battle of Gettysburg take place?
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What was the norths population?
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Who fought in the Civil War Battle of Shiloh?
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When and where did the Confederate Army of the West cross the Mississippi River from Arkansas to Mississippi before to the Battle of Iuka Mississippi?
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To what extent did the economic revolution in America before the Civil War change the nation socially and culturally?
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What was the main issue that the North and South fought for in the Civil War?
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Who were the Union leaders during the US Civil War?
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Where was Abraham Lincoln originally from?
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What was the impact of the Civil War on the Pacific Northwest?
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How did General Grant's name get changed from Hiram to Ulysses?
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Where was the first battle of the Civil War and which side won the first battle?
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Why didn't Grant send a large calvary unit on a long sweep around Richmond and Petersburg to cut railroads during the prolonged siege of these cities?
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Where was the location of Fort Sumter?
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What would a map look like now if the South had won the Civil War?
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If the North was not willing to fire the first shot in the Civil War could the South have just ignored Fort Sumter?
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Why is a civil war so sad and difficult?
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What did Abe Lincoln do while the Civil War was going on?
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How did the Emancipation Proclamation affect the North and South?
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Only one man died at Fort Sumter what caused his death and what was his name?
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When did Abraham Lincoln die?
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Was Frederick Douglass an African-American?
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How old was Abraham Lincoln when he was assassinated?
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Why did Lincoln draft the Proclamation of Emancipation?
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Where did General Beauregard try to defeat Grant?
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What was the population of the South during the Civil War?
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Explain the following quote and why Lincoln used it concerning the war 'A house divided against itself cannot stand'?
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When did the Civil War end?
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Why is the Civil War considered the bloodiest war in US history?
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How did new technology change everyday life in America during the Civil War?
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What was the Chesapeake incident?
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What did General Grant do in the Civil War?
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What important things did Roger Brook Taney do?
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What was the role of congress in reconstruction and how did it help the freedmen?
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When did the first battle of the Civil War start?
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What was camp life like for the southern soldiers during the Civil War?
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What was daily camp life like for citizen soldiers?
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Battle of antietam?
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Who won the battle of Vicksburg?
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Who was Harriet Tubman?
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What was Lincoln's Johnson's and the Radical Republicans plans for Reconstruction?
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What distance did Pickett's men have to cross to reach the Union Line on top of Cemetery Ridge?
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Did the North win the Civil War or did the South lose it?
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What states played important roles in the Civil War?
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Who is John Brown?
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Did the North and West not want to allow the South to leave because the South made so much money to spend on Northern goods and Western development?
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