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65 Cards in this Set
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Ante-Bellum
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Before Civil War
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Second Great Awakening
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-Religious Revival 1830s -Inspired Social Reform |
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Seneca Falls Convention
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-Beginning of Women's Rights Movement -Declaration of Sentiments |
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Declaration of Sentiments
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-Similar to Declaration of Independence -Written at Seneca Falls Convention |
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Horace Mann
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-Believed in public education -Education reform activist -Whig |
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Dorothea Dix
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-American activist on behalf of the insane -Created first generation of American asylums |
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McGuffey Reader
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-Widely used as textbooks in school from mid 19th century to mid 20th century -Mostly Christian stories |
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Abolitionists
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-Wanted to abolish slavery |
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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-Abolitionists -Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin |
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William Lloyd Garrison
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-White -Tension with Douglas -Radical-Immediate and uncompensated end to slavery -Abolitionists |
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Sojourner Truth
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-Abolitionists -Women's right activist -Gave the speech "Ain't I a woman" at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention |
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Harriet Tubman
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-Helped slaves escape through the Underground Railway -Abolitionists |
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Frederick Douglass
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-Abolitionist -Wrote "A Narrative of a Life of a Slave" |
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Cultural Achievements Writers
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-Emerson -Thoreau -Hawthorne |
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Cultural Achievement Publications
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-New York Tribune -Atlantic Monthly -Webster's |
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Radical Religion Reformer Shakers
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-Doomsday -Celibacy -Sexual Equality -Communal Ownership |
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Sectionalism
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-Cause of the Civil War -Distinctive regions with their own economic, social, and political interest |
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NORTH -industrial -tariff helped economy -urban -populated -liberal -educated |
SOUTH -agricultural -tariff hurts economy -rural -conservative -less educated |
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Slavery
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-Cause of Civil War -Easily identifiable -Not moral crusade but political fight |
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Compromise of 1850
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-California seeks admission to Union -Fear of secession -Henry Clay works out political compromise -5 compromises pushed through separately |
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5 parts of Compromise of 1850
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1)California admitted as free state 2)Federal fugitive law 3)Slave trade banned in D.C 4)Popular sovereignty in Mexican Cession Lands on slavery issue 5)Texas shrunk to present size |
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Anger over Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
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-Douglas wants Chicago as hub -Bargains for southern votes ----chance to get slavery in Kansas |
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Douglas Nickname
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-The Little Giant |
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Voting on Kansas slavery |
-Settlers pour into Kansas -Political hotbed -"Roving Missourians" cause fraudulent election -Both Anti-Slavers and Pro-Slavers claim victory and establish separate governments |
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Bleeding Kansas
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-Anti-slavers and Pro-slavers enter a mini civil was in Kansas
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John Brown
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-Kills pro-slavers at Pottawattamie Creek
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Senator Charles Sumner
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-Mass. abolitionist -Speech about Kansas -Insults senator from S. Carolina -Angered Rep. Preston Brooks -Martyr for Abolitionists -Killed by Brooks |
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Brooks on the Senate Floor
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-Beats Sumner with a cane -"Bully" Brooks -Hero to the South -Killed Sumner |
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Dred Scott
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-Slave brought into free territory sued for his freedom |
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Dred Scott Decision
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-Supreme court decision was "negroes are not citizens of U.S therefore can not sue"
-Chief Justice Taney -Slaves are property and can not be taken from owner -Missouri Compromise is unconstitutional |
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Lincoln-Douglas Debates 1858
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-Senatorial election -Lincolns stand on racial equality -Lincoln not an abolitionist -Lincoln loses to Douglas |
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Harpers Ferry
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-Virginia -John Brown steals federal arsenal -Brown calls for slaves to get armed and end slavery -Robert E. Lee arrest him -Brown is executed -Abolitionist Martyr |
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Susan B. Anthony
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-Abolitionist -Women's right activist |
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Southern Union Formation
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-States entered Union voluntarily -States ratified constitution |
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Northern Union Formation
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-Union indissoluble -People ratified the constitution -"Save the Union" |
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Lack of National Leadership
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-Millard Fillmore and Franklin Pierce were "do nothing" presidents -Political parties split on sectional lines |
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Who Replaced the Whig Party? |
Republicans
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Republican Party Platform |
-No further extension of slavery into the territories -not abolitionist |
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First Republican Party President
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Abe Lincoln 1860
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Election of 1860
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-N. Democrats --Douglas -S. Democrats --Breckinridge -Union party --John Bell |
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Lincoln Background
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-Born in a log cabin in Kentucky -Grew up in Illinoise -Wrestled -Married Mary Todd Lincoln |
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Secession
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-S. Carolina Dec. 1860 -Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas -Formed confederate states of America |
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Lincoln Inauguration Day Speech
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-"In your hands, my dissatisfied countrymen, and not in mine, lay the momentous issue of Civil War."
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How Confederate Constitution Differs from US
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-Slavery explicitly legal -State's rights emphasized -Similar to U.S. Constitution |
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Fort Sumter
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-Opening battle of Civil War -Charleston, S.C -April 1861 -Confederate victory -No human causalities -Confederate fired first shot |
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After Fort Sumter
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-Lincoln calls for soldiers -More states seceded --Virginia, N.C, Tenn, Arkansas |
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Pierre Gustav-Toutant Beauregard
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-Confederate general at Fort Sumter |
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Colonel Anderson
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-Union general at Fort Sumter
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Ol' Fuss and Feathers
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-All Lincoln has for Union -Old -Drunk -Can't stand -Over weight |
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Arlington National Cemetery
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-Was Robert E. Lee's plantation -Union made it a cemetery for Lee turning down Lincolns offer to help them and Lee going to the confederacy |
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First Bull Run/Manassas
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-"Forward to Richmond" -Railroad junction Beauregard v. McDowell -Johnston troops by train -Confederate victory -"Stonewall" Jackson |
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After Bull Run
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-2800 Union casualties -2000 Confederate casualties -Lincoln replaces Scott with McClellan Nov 1861 |
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Blacks in the Civil War |
-180,000 blacks served in Union Army -Led by white officers -Paid less than whites |
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Why did blacks have high casualty rates?
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-Confederates singled them out in battle -Little military training -Likely to be put in front lines |
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Merrimac
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-Iron-clad ship -Blockade buster -Confederate ship |
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Monitor
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-Union iron-clad ship
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The Rise of Grant
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-Ft. Henry and Fr. Donelson Feb 1862 -Ironclad gun boats -Nashville surrenders -Shiloh --Johnston killed --Confeds retreat --13k union causalities |
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Merrimac v. Monitor
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-Neither one wins -4.5 hours long |
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New Orleans Falls |
-April 26,1862 -Blow to Confederacy |
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Richmond
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-Lincoln orders attack -McClellan hesitates -Lee and Jackson defend Richmond |
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2nd Bull Run
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-August 1862 -20k casualties -Lincoln put McClellan back in charge |
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Confederate Invade the Union
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-Much to gain -Maryland -Congressional elections -Foreign Recognition |
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Antietam/Sharpsburg
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-September 18662 -Confederate invade Union -Confederates retreat -McClellan not pursue them -Confederate reinforcement arrives -Bloodiest day in history |
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Emancipation Proclamation
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-Freed slaves ONLY in Confederacy --not border states -Confederates can keep slaves if rejoin Union by Jan 1 1863 -Issued it to win the war |
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13th Amendment |
-Abolishes slavery
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