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EVENTS LEADING TO THE CIVIL WAR |
EVENTS LEADING TO THE CIVIL WAR |
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Missouri Compromise |
free above line slaves below the line |
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Henry Clay |
He negotiated the compromise |
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Tariffs |
The south had a lot of Tariffs on their exports and their imports. the tariffs were on their try goods and their cotton and they didn't make a lot of money of their crops with this tariff |
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John C. Calhoun |
VP of andrew jackson |
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Nat Turner Rebellion |
Nat Turner's Rebellion was nat turner and his fellow slaves rebelled and killed 60 white people hacking them to death. |
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Slave codes |
states run laws ran to the slaves. how to treat slaves. badly mostly. |
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Wilmot Proviso |
designed to eliminate slavery in the Mexican war. it prohibited the expansion of slavery in any territory ` |
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Free Soil Party |
wanted free states not slave states |
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Compromise of 1850 |
California Gold rush 1859 made a lot of people CA came in as a free states negotiating the FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT |
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popular sovereignty |
Kansas Nebraska act the people decide and vote what the state is going to be slave or free. |
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Fugitive Slave act |
allowed harsher treatment to slaves act that exploded the abolitionist movement |
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Republican Party |
it is against the expansion of slavery abe lincoln |
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bleeding Kansas |
kind of tiny war in kansas and nebraska act where the people voted for slavery or not |
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James Buchanan |
The president before the civil war. didn't do anything about the secession of South Carolina and was part of the weak presidents. |
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Dred Scott |
fired up the abolitionist movement the chief justice Marshall Taney, his decision was crucial because he said that no African american could not become a us citizen. they cant sue the court either. |
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Stephen Douglas |
Senator that made the Kansas Nebraska Act. all about Popular soveirgnty ran against lincoln in the illionouis senate race |
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John Brown |
the former slave Abolitionist that tried to take over Harpers Ferry with his fellow former slaves. |
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Election of 1860 |
Lincoln is elected and South Carolina immediatly in DEC. secedes and the other southern states seceded too |
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Secession |
happened right after the election of 1860 |
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Sectionalism |
the loyalness to the state instead of the country of a whole.` |
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Abolitionism |
the abolititonists against slavery rebellions and protest against slavery. |
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William Lloyd Garrison |
a white abolitionist publishes the Liberator one of the most succesfull abolitionist started in the 1820s |
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Liberator |
Author is William garrison antislavery magazine that has many issues and could be put out every month with a different issue. |
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Fredrick Douglass |
most significant Black Abolitionist that wrote many things runaway slave convincing Lincoln to let slaves fight in the war. |
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Grimke Sisters |
women in the SOUTH that abolitioned slavery |
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Underground Railroad Harriet Tubman |
Tubman used the underground railroad to help many slaves to runaway to the north to be free. |
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Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin |
Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin Abolitionist. Uncle Tom's Cabin was a book describing how terrible and awful slavery was fired up the abolitionist movement |
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Kansas Nebraska Act |
decided by popular sovereignty what the state would have become a slave or free state. |
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Harper's Ferry |
was raided by John Brown and his followers |
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Constitution of the Confederacy |
almost exactly the same as the north's but a little different allowing slavery and more states rights and extended the term of the president |
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Jefferson Davis |
the president of the Confederacy for 6 years. |
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What are the Economic differences between the north and south? |
the north has so many more soldiers and equipment with huge advantages for the civil war |
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Long Term Causes and Short Term Causes of the War. |
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Lincoln's View before the Civil War. |
wanted to stop the expansion of slavery and thought the war would end very quickly |
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CIVIL WAR |
CIVIL WAR |
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Fort Sumter |
The battle beginning the Civil War. The union fort in south carolina |
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Border States |
The states that didn't secede from the union and still had slaves in their country. Maryland and west virginia and tennessee and missouri |
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Robert E. Lee |
had some major wins for the confederate states and was the general of the whole confederate army his mistake was the gettesyburg |
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Anaconda plan |
the union surrounded the confederate blocking of trade and the blockage of the mississippi war helped the union |
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George McClellan |
the union general for the first part of the war and then Lincoln fired him He ran against Lincoln in 1864 but lost because of the union victories |
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Ulysses s. Grant |
General of the union army |
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Stonewall jackson |
brave war leader under lee and helped win some battles |
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Conscription |
Draft in the civil war for both sides. the north more |
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New york city draft riots |
response to the conscription riots in new york
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Bull Run Manassas |
victory for the south |
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ironclads |
two ships one confederate ship made in iron and was destroyed by the confederate so that the north couldn't take control of it. |
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shiloh |
Bloodiest battle in the Civil War up to that day and the union won |
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Antietam |
bloodiest day in the war the casualties were so high. up to that day |
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emancipation proclamation |
Lincoln deleivered a speech stating that all slaves were free the south didn't like it and from then, the war was only about slavery |
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gettysburg |
Bloodiest battle of the civil war the union stopped the confrederate for the second time and the casualites were up to 50,000 3 day battle |
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pickett's charge |
The last day in the battle of Gettysburg. Lee's last invasion in the north |
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Vicksburg |
the key battle that helped the Union win the Civil War The union won the battle and they had control over the Mississippi war and they cut off all confederate trade transportation and military fortifications |
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Gettysburg Address |
Abe Lincoln's speech was important |
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Clara Barton |
Founder of the American Red Cross Nurse |
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Sherman's March to the Sea |
was cause of the Union to try and scare the Georgia state out of the confederacy with the showing of force |
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Election of 1864 |
Abraham Lincoln was re-elected in 1864 once the Union force won a few battles. He ran against his former general George McClellan. |
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Appomattox |
Lee surrendered with his 28,000 troops to the Union in the Appomattox Court House in Virginia effectively ending the Civil War. |
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John Wilkes Booth |
He assassinated Lincoln at Ford's Theater five days after he was re-elected as president |
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Advantages and Disadvantages of the North and South |
North had so much more supplies people and resources South had not so much supplies people and resources but they did have that encouragment |
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Strategies of the North and South |
Lee wanted to use his skill and experience to tatically destroy the north North was going in there and get over with it |
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Action of Lincoln during the war, (Great Emancipator or Tyrant) |
Great emancipator Freed the slaves in the emancipation proclomation wanted the war over quickly |
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Why was the Death Toll so high |
Because of the use of old tactics and the advanced bullets they used and they came at each other one to one and not from far distances The cannonball was advanced too |
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How did the North win the War |
Lee came into the north and (his big mistake) happened and he lost that battle and that contributed to the losing of the Civil War. |
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What were the effects of the war |
The south was in complete DEVASTATION and they were completely destroyed and in such a mess. |
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RECONSTRUCTION |
RECONSTRUCTION |
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13th Amendment |
Freed all the slaves everywhere and the south had to agree with it to join back into the Union. |
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Lincoln's Plan for Reconstruction |
His 10% plan was that 10% of the South had to swear their loyalty and had to ban slavery |
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Radical Republicans Plan (Congressional Reconstruction Plan) |
They wanted 50% of the south to swear loyalty to the North and ban slavery much worse than Lincoln's |
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Wave Davis Bill |
was the Radical Republicans plan but never took action b/c of the pocket veto of Lincoln |
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Andrew Johnson (Presidential Reconstruction) |
his plan to readmit the southern states into the union but they had to abolish slavery and undo their secession thingy |
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Black Codes |
The southern states put them out to restrict the African Americans from being free and making them work with very low pay and debt |
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Freedmen |
The Freedmen were all the Freed black slaves Forty Acres and a mule |
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Thaddeus Stevens |
One of the leaders in the Radical Republicans |
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Freedman's Bureau |
their main succession was they put up lots and lots of Schools and universities in the south over 200 |
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Carpetbaggers |
The south called abolitionists who came down to the south to teach the blacks at the universities and schools |
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Scalawags |
was a white southern who accompanied or may have helped the carpetbaggers |
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14th Amendment |
Gave all the African Americans, that were born or naturalized in the United States, U.S. Citizenship. |
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Reconstruction Act 1867 |
The 14th and 15th Amendments were the plans to readmit the southern states into the Union |
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Impeachment of Johnson |
the House of Representative hated Johnson so they impeached him but the senate was one vote off for him to be completely gone |
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US Grant (President) |
The Radical Republicans put him in their because the knew he would win b/c of his military war hero success and they wanted him in there so that they in the congress could do what they wanted. President's Grant was one of the worst Presidencies ever |
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Grant's Corruption |
His scandals made him an apparently bad president |
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15th Amendment |
Gave all freed black men the right to vote because of their U.S. Citizenship |
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KKK |
Ku Klux Klan White People that hated black free men and they were very brutal to the blacks |
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Sharecropping |
The process by which the Southern Plantation owners would give the freed slaves land of theirs but they had to give 70% of their crops to the owner and lots of their other stuff for a certain amount of time before the blacks could own that part of the land. |
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Crop Lien System |
Way of the southern white and black farmers to manage to get enough crops to live. |
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Compromise of 1877 |
Ended the Reconstruction era by pulling out all federal troops out of the south increasing the horrible treatment to freed blacks |
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Rutherford B. Hayes |
19th President He oversaw the end of reconstruction. |
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Jim Crow Era |
Made times for black to vote very very difficult |
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Differences between the 3 Reconstruction plans |
Lincoln's plan which never came into play 10% The Radical Republicans Plan 50% Andrew Johnson's plan |
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What was Reconstruction like for the Freed Blacks |
It was better but by the smallest amount at least they got a little something |
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why is reconstruction considered a unsuccessful time period |
Because the south was so far behind in the industrial part of being and the president didn't really help bring them out of that depression |
