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42 Cards in this Set
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Kansas-Nebraska Act |
Repealed the Missouri Compromise in 1853; allowed the citizens in the Louisiana Territory to decide on slavery by popular sovereignty |
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Bleeding Kansas |
Resulted when pro-slavery and antislavery forces rushed into Kansas to decide the vote on slavery |
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Republican |
Political party formed to stop the spread of slavery |
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Fugitive Slave Act |
Part of the Compromise of 1850; hated by the North because escaped slaves had to be returned to the South |
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Dred Scott vs Sanford |
A Supreme Court decision that ruled that slaves were property and not US citizens |
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Lincoln-Douglas debates |
Made Abe Lincoln a national figure; made known Lincoln's position regarding slavery |
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Stephen A Douglas |
Proposed that Kansas-Nebraska Act; a Democrat from Illinois who argued that voters in each territory should decide the slavery issue for themselves; won the race against Lincoln for Senate in 1856 |
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John Brown |
An extreme abolitionist who led a raid on the US arsenal at Harpers Ferry to get weapons for a slave revolt; considered a saint by the North |
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Abe Lincoln |
His election as president in 1860 convinced South Carolina and other Southern states to secede from the Union |
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1861-1865 |
Dates of the Civil War; war between the Union and the Confederacy |
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Jefferson Davis |
President of the Confederate States of America (Confederacy/South) |
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President of the United States during the Civil War (Union/North); first president to be assassinated (1865) |
Abraham Lincoln |
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Ft Sumter |
First battle of the Civil War
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To preserve the Union |
The reason why Lincoln decided to go to war rather than allow southern states to secede |
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Emancipation Proclamation |
Issued by Lincoln on January 1, 1863; freed slaves in the Confederate states as Union soldiers won battles; gave Union soldiers another reason to fight besides preserving the Union |
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Battle of Vicksburg |
An important Southern defeat because the South lost control of the Mississippi River and the Confederacy was split in two |
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Battle of Gettysburg |
An important Southern defeat; the only battle fought in the North; so many died that Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address there in 1863 to honor dead Union soldiers |
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Robert E Lee |
Confederate General who surrendedered at Appomattox courthouse in April 9, 1865; ended the Civil War |
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Ulysses S Grant |
Union General who accepted Lee's surrender at Appomattox courthouse |
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54th Massachusetts |
An all black regiment who gained fame for its heroic attack on Fort Wagner in South Carolina |
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Wanted to preserve the Union, believed in democracy, liberty, and equality |
Abe Lincoln |
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1st Inaugural Address |
Lincoln's speech when first elected president; would defend federal property in the South; not going to abolish slavery |
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2nd Inaugural Address |
Lincoln's speech in 1865 when he was re-elected; said the war was about slavery and liberty |
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Amendment 13 |
Amendment that freed the slaves |
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Amendment 14 |
Amendment that gave the ex-slaves (freedmen) US citizenship |
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Amendment 15 |
Amendment that gave black men the right to vote |
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Frederick Doughlass |
A former slave and abolitionist leader who urged President Lincoln to pass the Emancipation Proclamation
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Homestead Act |
What law gave people land if they would build a Home on it and farm it for 5 years? |
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Freedmen's Bureau |
A federal agency created to assist newly freed African Americans with food, clothing, shelter, education, and locating family members |
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share cropping
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A system where the landowner would provide seed and tools to a farm worker which left the farm worker in debt year after year |
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Morrill Act |
Gave each state land to sell and use the money to start public colleges teaching agriculture and the mechanical arts |
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Black Codes |
Laws passed in the South immediately after the Civil War that angered people in the North |
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Congressional Plan |
Plan for reconstruction that divided the South into 5 military districts |
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Ku Klux Klan |
Group formed to stop African Americans from having equal rights |
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Hiram Rhodes Revels |
First African American elected to serve as a member of congress |
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US vs Cruikshank |
Supreme court decision that rules that only the States, not the federal government, could punish individuals who violated the civil rights of African Americans |
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Dawes Act |
A law that pushed assimilation among Native Americans and almost destroyed their culture - gave about 100 million acres of tribal land to the whites |
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Compromise of 1877 |
Officially ended reconstruction and Democrats returned to power in the South - segregation became an acceptable way of life for the next 100 years |
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Panic of 1873 |
Banks closed and the stock market collapsed causing an economic depression - caused Americans to become less interested in reconstruction |
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Radical Republicans |
Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens were the leader of the _______? |
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William Carney |
First African American to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor |
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Philip Bazaar |
First Hispanic American to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor |