Butler Us History Goal 3

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

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The writer of Uncle Toms Cabin

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Uncle Tom's Cabin

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A book that increased hostilities between the North and the South because more Northerners began to oppose slavery, and many Southerners thought it was a "pack of lies"

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Dred Scott vs. Sandford

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Declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional because slaves are property and property cannot be taken away anywhere, while still a persons.

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The Election of 1860

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Lincoln was elected; Later caused South Carolina to secede from the Union.

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Preserving the Union

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This was Lincolns main goal at the outbreak of the Civil War

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The Emancipation Proclamation.

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This was issued as a result of pressure from abolitionist groups and a desire to turn the war into a normal cause after the Union victory at the Battle of Antietam; It only freed slaves in states in rebellion.

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The Battle of Gettysburg (July 18, 1863)

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The battle that became the turning point of the Civil War because the Confederacy suffered a devestating defeat and never won another battle; The bloodiest battle in the Civil War.

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The Battle of Appomottox Court House (April 9, 1865)

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The final battle of the Civil War at which Confederate General Lee surrendered to Union General Grant

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Black Codes

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Passed during and immediately following Radical Reconstruction by most Confederate States to limit the rights of newly freed African-Americans

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Hayes-Tilden Compromise of 1877

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This event officialy ended Reconstruction

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The 14th Amendment

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The best evidence that the Civil War greatly increased the power of the federal government over states

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The Battle of Antietam (September 17, 1862)

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Union victory; The bloodiest single day in American history.

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The Battle of Shiloh (March, 1862)

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Union victory; Demonstrated how bloody the war was going to be (25,000 died); Convinced the Union that it could take the Mississippi River (the Anaconda Plan worked)

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The Battle of Bull Run I (July 21, 1861)

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Conferdacy Victory; The first major battle of the Civil war in which the Union outnumbered the Confederacy, but the Confederacy shockingly defefeated the Union. This made it clear that the war wouldn't be short.

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The Confederacy

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The states that seceded from the Union after Lincoln's election. They had the advantage during the early stages of war.

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The Union

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The states remaining in the United States. They had the advantage later in the war.

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Robert E. Lee

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A great Military leader. He was the General of the Confederate Army.

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Border States

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These states were Southern slave states that stayed loyal to the Union. The states were; Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware

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The Anaconda Plan

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The Union's strategy to win the war; Suffocate the Confederacy by blocking Confederate ports to prevent European trade,Cut off supply lines, and capture their capital city, Richmond.

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West Virginia

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This Union state didn't exist at the beginning of the Civil War. It had few slaves and didn not want to fight for slavery. They sent a letter to Lincoln asking to become a separate state, Congress approved.

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Kansas-Nebraska Act

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This repealed the Missouri Compromise by popular sovereignty to allow potential for spreading slavery into these two states. Fear of slavery spreading throughout the U.S. raised. Due to this, the Republican Party, opposing slavery spreading, was formed.

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"Bleeding Kansas"

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A dispute over popular sovereignty that erupted into violence as “free-soilers” and pro-slavery forces crashed over who would control new states

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Caning of Charles Summer

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Violence and tension over slavery in Congress when debate involved personal attacks

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The Firing on Fort Sumter (March, 1861)

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The point at which the Confederacy started a war for their independence.The Union accepted the war to “preserve the Union”.

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The spread of slavery into westward territory

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The common issue that the Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska act addressed.

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10% Plan

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President Lincoln's reconstruction plan which was described as lenient. His plan reflected a "let 'em up easy" attitude by giving Amnesty (forgiveness) to all Southerners except leaders, they were allowed back into the Union if 10% of their votes took an oath of allegiance

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Wade-Davis Bill

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Congress disagreed with Lincolns reconstruction plan, so they proposed a harser bill called this; Lincoln veto'ed it