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47 Cards in this Set
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William Lloyd Garrison
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leader of abolition movement, published The Liberator
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Grimke sisters
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abolitionist women’s rights advocates
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Elijah Lovejoy
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abolitionist editor, murdered
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Nat Turner’s rebellion
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55 whites killed by slave revolt in 1831
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Sojourner Truth
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abolitionist/feminist, born into slavery
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Denmark Vesey
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organized a slave revolt conspiracy in 1822, executed
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Frederick Douglass
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lecturer, writer, escaped slave
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King Cotton
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economic dominance of plantation cotton in South
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Forty-niners
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gold rush following discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mill
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Compromise of 1850
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series of compromises to determine slave issue in Mexican Cession
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Fugitive Slave Law
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required Northern states to cooperate in returning slaves
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Harriet Tubman
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runaway slave, helped other slaves escape
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel describing evils of slavery
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Ostend Manifesto
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vain declaration of US possession of Cuba
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
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KS and NE as states, popular sovereignty to decide slavery
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Stephen A. Douglas
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Illinois Senator, presidential candidate 1860
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Popular sovereignty
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the people rule, decide on slavery issue in their state
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Bleeding Kansas
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conflicts between proslavery and abolitionists
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John Brown
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abolitionist, executed for treason, martyr for North
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Lecompton Constitution
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proslavery constitution for Kansas
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Dred Scott Decision
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Court decision in support of slavery
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Freeport Doctrine
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Douglas’ support of popular sovereignty over Scott decision
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George Fitzhugh
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Southern slave advocate
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Hinton Helper
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Southern journalist, Impending Crisis, opposed slavery economic reasons
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Crittenden Compromise
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1861 proposed extending Missouri Compromise, rejected
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Border states
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slave states that stayed in the Union, allowed to keep slavery
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Fort Sumter
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besieged Union fort in South, first shots fired in Civil War
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Bull Run
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first battle of Civil War, victory for South
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Monitor and Merrimac
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first ironclad ships to battle each other
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Copperheads
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Northern Democrats opposed to war
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Emancipation Proclamation
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Lincoln freed the slaves in the rebel states
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Clara Barton
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Civil War nurse, founder of Red Cross
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Lincoln’s Ten Percent
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plan to readmit Confederate states w/ 10% loyalty oath
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Ex parte Milligan
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Court decision that civilians could not be tried by military tribunal
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Radical Republicans
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liberal faction of the party, for African American rights
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Black Codes
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laws passed by postwar South limiting the rights of former slaves
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Thaddeus Stevens
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radical Republican Representative, advocated Johnson impeachment
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Charles Sumner
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Radical Republican Senator, physically attacked in Congress
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Andrew Johnson
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President following Lincoln, nearly impeached
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Freedmen’s Bureau
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federal organization to help former slaves
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Thirteenth Amendment
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abolished slavery
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Fourteenth Amendment
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granted civil rights to former slaves
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Fifteenth Amendment
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granted suffrage to former slaves
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Scalawags
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term referring to white southern Republicans that supported Reconstruction Carpetbaggers
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Compromise of 1877
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political agreement ending military occupation of the South
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Solid South
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traditional support of Democrats following Reconstruction
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Sharecropping
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economic system of renting land to poor farmers, rent = crop
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