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8:What was the first state to secede following Lincoln?s election?
8:What did the Crittenden Compromise propose, and did it pass?
8:True or False: The Constitution of 1781 had been ratified by state conventions, and not by popular vote?
9:What event persuaded 4 states to secede?
9:Whose lawyer petitioned the federal circuit court in Baltimore after being arrested for underground confederate activities?
9:In October 1861, what did Richmond papers call Robert E. Lee?
10:Where did Confederate Gen. Jefferson Davis graduate from?
10:In 1860, how many of the eight military colleges were in slave states?
10:By 1862, how many men joined the Union Army?
11:Who was commanding a brigade from the Shenandoah Valley that was said to be a ?stern disciplinarian without tolerance for human weakness?
11:What did the Yankees call the day after Bull Run?
11:How old was McClellan when he became renown in the Mexican war?
12:What was the South?s principal weapon of foreign policy?
12:What branch of the Union military achieved some of the most important military successes?
12:What was the main goal of the Confederate foreign policy?
13:Who surrendered Fort Donelson to Grant on February 16?
13:The killed and wounded at Shiloh was nearly double the combined count of what battles?
13:On May 15, why did the Monitor prove ineffective?
14:What was stated in the first conscription law enacted on April 16?
14:What congressional act led to the creation of a national currency and altered the monetary structure of the United States?
14:What are the cited examples of what the 37th Congress did to change the course of national life?
15:Who described Lee as cautious and weak under grave responsibility?
15:How many men were killed and wounded in the Seven Days Battle?
15:What was a greater threat to the health of Civil War soldiers than enemy weapons?
16:What circumstance gave added force to Lincoln?s first step in the direction of an emancipation policy?
16:Who said that slavery was the greatest wrong inflicted on any people?
16:In 1863, where did the United States government sponsor a settlement of 453 colonists?
17:Who established the U.S. Military Rail Roads?
17:What was Antietam called by the South?
17:The casualties suffered at Antietam were how many more times than that at the Normandy beaches?
18:Who said I expect to maintain this contest until successful, or till I die?
18:What day did Lincoln issue his Emancipation Proclamation?
18:Who said the Emancipation Proclamation was an act of immense historic consequence?