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25 Cards in this Set
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Free Soil Party
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A short-lived political party in the US
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Missouri Compromise 1820
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Prohibiting slavery north of the 36 degree 30 minute line excluding Missouri
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Compromise 1850
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Five bills-
California free state New Mexico and Utah used popular sovereignty Republic if Texas gave New Mexico 10 million$ Fugitive Act for Slaves |
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Kansas Nebraska 1854
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Created territories of Nebraska and kansas. It repealed Missouri compromise of 1830 and people came flooding in when they heard about popular sovereignty
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Henry clay
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American lawyer who was in both the house and the senate
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John Brown
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An abolitionist who started protesting against Kansas being a slave state. The protest grew into a violent movement where anti-slavery people killed
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Daniel Webster
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American senetor of Massachussets during Civil War
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Robert E Lee
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American career military officer, known for having commanded the Confederate Army in Northern Virginia in the Civil War.
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Fort Sumter
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Third system masonry sea fort located in Charleston Harbor.
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Border Stateswoman Cotton
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They were slave states that had not declared a secession from the union and later joined the Confederacy.
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King Cotton
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A slogan used in the civil war by the confederacy to support succession from the US
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Blockade
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An effort to cut off food, supplies, war material or communications from a particular area by force
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Anaconda Plan
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The name widely applied to an outline strategy for subduing the seceding states in the Civil War
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Calvary
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A type of force used from the American revalution until world war 1. It included horseback.
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Minnie Ball
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A type of spinning bullet for a revolver.
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Ulysses S. Grant
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18th president, and Vice President to Abraham Lincoln
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Uncle Tom's Cabin is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Harriet Beachcer Stowe
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Harriet Beecher Stowe was an American abolitionist and author. Her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin was a depiction of life for African Americans under slavery
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Dred Scott v. Sanford
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Landmark decision by Seprrme Court in which the court held that Af Am, slave or free could not bbe American Citizens
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Fugitive Slave Act
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Slave owners could retrieve runaway slaves
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Harpers Ferry
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John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was an attempt by the white abolitionist John Brown to start an armed slave revolt
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Secede
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To formally withdraw
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Confederate States of America
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Set up in 1861 by 7 slave states, which declared their decision from the US
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Jefferson Davis
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The one and only president of The Confeterate States of america. They left the Uniun because they believed in slavery
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Abraham Lincoln
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The 16th President of the United States. He started the Civil war originaly to regain the territory which was at that time the confeterate states. Then, whe he knew the war was almost over, he passed the imancipation proclimation, which prohibited slavery He got assassinated 5 days after slavery ended.
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