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- American Romantics and transcendentalists are those who most likely agree that the beauty of nature is worthy of
- Women's work in the reform movement benefited the movement for women's rights by
- Thomas Gallaudet's contribution to education resulted in free American schools for
- In American cities in the mid-1800s, you would commonly find
- The temperance movement was a reform effort to urge people to use self-discipline to stop drinking
- the term "middle class" refers to a social and economic level between
- Horace Mann, Massachusetts's first secretary of education, founded the
- Nathaniel Hawthorn Edgar Allen Poe and Emily Dickenson were writers during the
- The situation for women in the 1800s was that federal law did not permit women to
- In the late 18th century America, the Second Great Awakening was a period of Christian renewal that began
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and Henry David Thoreau were all
- Lincoln shortened the number of Dakota executed from what
- Andrew Johnson _______ most of the Southern whites
- What is the Batter of Bull Run referred to in the South?
- What effect did Lincoln's election have on the Southern states?
- What did the North/Union hope to achieve by launching the Peninsula Campaign? Was the campaign successful?
- What did the Supreme Court say about the rights of black people in the U.S. in the Dred Scot case?
- List the leadership qualities displayed by Confederate General Lee and Jackson that helped them win several battles in the east
- Lincoln did not view the Civil War as a battle to end ________. his main goal was to keep the ________ together. Lincoln did not _________ slavery, but he was afraid that he would lose the support of the _______ states if he moved against slavery.
- The Emancipation Proclamation did not actually free ___________ people in the South becayse the South was not following the _______ of the United States. The proclamation did, however, let everyone know that the ________ believed that slavery was ________.