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28 Cards in this Set
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Anaconda plan |
Plan to starve the south |
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Compromise of 1850 |
California is admitted as a free/ allowed popular sovereignty in the territories/compromised the balance of the free and slave states |
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Total war |
Destroys all resources |
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Wilmot proviso |
Called for a ban of slavery in the western territories |
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Crittenden compromise |
Amendment to prevent secession |
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Popular sovereignty |
People decide of slavery issue/did not solve the issue of slavery |
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Kansas-Nebraska act |
Divides Kansas-Nebraska into 2 states/each territory would decide on slavery by popular sovereignty |
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Fugitive act |
Made it a crime to help the slaves |
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Free soil party |
Anti-slavery political party |
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Emancipation proclamation |
Free the slaves |
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Dred Scott |
Supreme Court ruling that slaves were not citizens/congress had no authority in the territories/made the Missouri compromise unconstitutional. Northerners were outraged/southerners were pleased |
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Jefferson davis |
President of the confederate states |
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Abraham Lincoln |
President of the Union States/opposed to popular sovereignty |
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Fort Sumter |
Civil war started here April 12,1861 |
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John crittenden |
He wanted to amend the constitution to allow slavery in the territories |
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John brown |
An abolitionist who used violence to try to end slavery |
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Opposition to slavery led tot he creation of the ________ |
Republican Party |
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The civil war began _____ |
April 12 1861 |
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Gettysburg was the turning point for the _____ |
Union |
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Lincolns primary goal at the beginning of the war was to ___________ |
Preserve the union |
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Lincolns primary goal at the beginning of the war was to ___________ |
Preserve the union |
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______ is the first battle of the civil war |
Fort sumpter |
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Lee surrendered to grant at ______________ |
Appomattox courthouse |
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Why were those that opposed slavery outraged by the Dred Scott decision? |
The Supreme Court ruled the Missouri compromise was unconstitutional, and the decision supported the notion the slaves are property. The federal government did not have the authority to ban slavery in any territory |
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How did the southern states justify secession? |
Lincoln was elected without a single southern vote south thought the government no longer represented them or their interests they feared Lincoln would end slavery |
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Explain Kansas-Nebraska act |
It divided Nebraska territory into Kansas and Nebraska and it stated that voters in each territory would decide whether or not to allow slavery |
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What was the result of the Kansas-Nebraska act? |
The act led to violence and an attempt to control government and the votes |
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What event led to the outbreak of war? |
When president Lincoln sent supplies to fort Sumter the confederates attacked and took control of the fort. As a result president Lincoln ordered volunteers to fight the confederacy |
