Seceding states believed that they had to leave the Union in order to - States seceded to protect property and life, “That the maintenance … of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of powers on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depends…” A. Lincoln – First Inaugural Address What is the “domestic institution” that Lincoln is referring to in his inaugural address? - slavery, The Fugitive Slave Act angered Northerners because - it increased federal intervention in the affairs of independent states., What battle is considered to be the turning point in the Civil War? - Battle of Gettysburg, Why did the Confederate States of America write a constitution that prohibited importing slaves from other countries? - get support of Britian and France, WHat act was used to try to impeach Johnson - The Tenure of Office Act, 10. The capture of Vicksburg, Mississippi, by Union troops - caused the surrender of other Confederate strongholds on the Mississippi River., The events of “Bleeding Kansas” can be attributed to - the competition between anti slavery and pro slavery groups, One success of Reconstruction was the - introduction of a tax-supported public school system in the South., What term describes General Grant’s strategy for crushing the Confederacy after the Battle of Gettysburg? - Total War, What was Lincoln’s view on African Americans before the Civil War and after 1863? - The freedom of slaves was not as important as keeping the Union together and after 1863, their freedom from slavery was more important, The Dred Scott decision stated that slaves - were the property of their owners regardless of where they lived or moved., The Radical Republicans rejected the Ten Percent Plan because they believed that - African Americans should be granted full citizenship, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncles Tom’s Cabin infuriated the South because it - spread anti-slavery sentiment in the North., The election of 1860 showed that the North and the South were two distinct political entities because - Lincoln won without a single Southern electoral vote., As a result of the debates with Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln - gained nationwide support for his political views, What major event in the late 1840s led to the question of whether slavery would be contained or would expand? - results of the Mexican American War, During Reconstruction, groups such as the Ku Klux Klan - used violence to prevent freed people from voting, What was the outcome of Polk’s expansionist policies in the Oregon Territory? - The Oregon Territory was split between the United States and Britain., Which two groups of immigrants figured prominently in the hard work of laying track for the Transcontinental railroad? - Irish workers and Chinese workers,

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