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35 Cards in this Set
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Civil War |
armed conflict between the northern and southern states between 1861 and 1865 |
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Union |
the United States of America as a national unit; the northern forces in the Civil War |
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Compromise of 1850 |
agreement reached between northern and southern states in an effort to end the dispute over the extension of slavery into the western territories |
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Fugitive Slave Act |
part of the Compromise of 1850 requiring all states to return runaway slaves |
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State's rights |
theory that each state has the right to nullify acts of the federal government |
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nativism |
practice of favoring native-born citizens over immigrants |
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naturalization |
process resulting in the citizenship of immigrants |
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Kansas-Nebraska Act |
act of 1854 establishing that the people of a territory should decide whether slavery would be allowed there |
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Stephen Douglas |
Illinois senator who introduced the Kansas Nebraska Act which allowed new territories to choose their own position on slavery |
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Republican Party |
political party organized in the 1850s to oppose Southern interests |
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free soiler |
settler in Kansas in the 1850s committed to an anti-slavery policy |
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John Brown |
abolitionist crusader who massacred pro-slavery settlers in Kansas before the Civil War |
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Charles Sumner |
Abolitionist and senator from Massachusetts who was beaten badly in the Senate by a southern congressman after making an anti-slavery speech |
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Chief Justice Roger Taney |
chief Justice of the Supreme Court who wrote an opinion in the1857 Dred Scott case that declared the Missouri compromise unconstitutional |
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Abraham Lincoln |
16th president of the United States,1861 to 1865 |
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John C. Breckinridge |
presidential candidate of the southern wing of the Democratic Party in 1860 |
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William Henry Seward |
republican anti-slavery leader during the 1860s; |
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constitutional union party |
political party formed of moderates from the south and the border states in the election of 1860 |
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slave power |
name for the South used by opponents in the North before the Civil War |
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secessionist |
southerner who wanted to south to secede from the union before the Civil War |
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Jefferson Davis |
President of the Confederate states of America |
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Harpers Ferry |
A town in Virginia where a federal arsenal was; John Brown and followers attacked in 1859 |
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border states |
Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri |
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Confederate States of America |
Southern states that seceded from the United States prior to the Civil War |
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lower south |
States that seceded before Fort Sumter |
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upper south |
States that seceded after fort Sumter |
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Fort Sumter |
Federal fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina that was fired upon by the Southerners, signifying the first shots of the Civil War |
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Dred Scott v. Sandford |
supreme Court case in 1857 that refused to recognize African-Americans as citizens and overturned the Missouri compromise |
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Lecompton Constitution |
proslavery Kansas constitution of 1857 |
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Panic of 1857 |
economic depression that struck the North particularly hard before the Civil War and helped persuade the South to cut economic and political ties with the North |
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Harriet Beecher Stowe |
Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin |
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George Fitzgugh |
Author of Cannibals All! |
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Democratic Party |
political party descended from Jeffersonian Democrat Republicans and Jacksonian Democrats |
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American party |
political party organized in 1854 by nativists to work against Catholics and immigrants |
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Know Nothings |
the American party |
