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23 Cards in this Set
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Mexican War
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Conflict between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 148, ending with a U.S. victory.
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Manifest Destiny
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Obvious or undeniable fate.
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annex
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join or attach
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Gadsden Purchase
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Mexico sold 30,000 square miles of present day Southern New Mexico and Arizona to the U.S. for $10 million
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Fugitive Slave Act
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ordered all citizens of the U.S. to assist in the return of enslaved people who had escaped
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prejudice
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unreasonable, usually unfavorable opinion of another group that is not based on a fact.
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Union
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North
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Conferderacy
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South
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Kansas- Nebraska Act
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supported the practice of popular sovereignty instead of restricting
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arsenal
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place where weapons are made and stored
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Border States
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Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri, and North Carolina
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lower south
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Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina
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Upper South
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Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas
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War of Attrition
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When one side inflicts continuous losses on the enemy in order to wear down its strength
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Battle of Shiloh
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Bloodiest Day of the Civil War
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Battle of Antietam
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Bloodiest Battle of the Civil War
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emancipation proclamation
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presidential decree, by President Lincoln, effective January 1, 1863, that freed slaves in Confederate-held territory
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Fredricksburg
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Fought in 1862
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Chancellorsville
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Stone Wall Jackson was killed by his own men
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Battle of Gettysburg
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Greatest battle ever fought on American Soil.
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Siege
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Tactic in which an enemy is surrounded and starved in order to make him surrender
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thirteenth amendment
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abolishing slavery
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guerrilla
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who uses surprise hit-and-run tactics
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