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- William Lloyd Garrison creates the.... in ....
- Their kids were beginning to speak Dutch and they did not want that
- He was shot with arrows and hacked to pieces. His crew ended up finishing their trip without him
- They convinced them with the promise of independence and their own land. They did it because the cities were overcrowded
- The Dred Scott decision was seen by northerns as a ______ ______
- To unite their kingdoms to create Spain and take land from Muslims unless they agreed to become Christian
- Thomas Jefferson and James Madison first proposed the idea of "Judicial Review" in the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions in 1803.
- The War of 1812 began in the following year:
- At the Battle of the Thames in 1813, Tecumseh was killed by United States troops under the command of William Henry Harrison.
- Before burning ____________________, General Sherman ordered all civilians to leave.
- the Confederate commander at Vicksburg surrendered because
- amendment to the Constitution that abolished slavery was the
- Many towns were set on fire in South Carolina by General Sherman's troops, including _____________________, the state capital.
- In response to the South's treatment of African American troops, Lincoln
- After the battle in the Wilderness, the Union and Confederate armies battled for 11 days first in terrible heat and then in pouring rain near ____ often in bloody hand-to-hand combat that left many traumatized.
- _____ ordered an all-out assault at Cold Harbor.
- The Battles of the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and Cold Harbor were all characterized by _____
- Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg failed to take Cemetery Hill, resulting in Union victory.
- The city of Vicksburg was located on the east bank of the Mississippi River.
- Instead of bread, Union soldiers often ate ___, a hard biscuit made of wheat flour.