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46 Cards in this Set
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Cotton Gin
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-Eli whiney
-1793 Revolutionzing the southern economy -giving salvery a new life in south |
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Cotton kingdom
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-refer to the antebellum South
-economy dependent on cotton |
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Nat Turner Revolt
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- Slave uprising in Virginia in 1831
- Protest against slavery - Harsh revision of slave codes |
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Old South
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- Refers used to the south in the 3 decades before 1860
- When slave labor dominated the economy - Also referred to as the "Antebellum" or pre-war |
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Peculiar Intitution
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- Pre-war period 1830-60s
- Jstified slavery becuase it was unique to south |
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Harriet Tubman
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-Former Slave
-Underground railroad -300 slaves out of the south 2 freedom :):):):)::):):):)!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Upper South
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-Virginia , Maryland, North Carolina, And kentucky
- More diversified ec=nomies the lower south - sold slaves "down the river" where cotton was booming |
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John Bell
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-Senator of Tennessee
-Nominee of the new constituional Union party in 1860 -received some support from the border states in the election |
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Bleeding Kansas
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- Contest b/w proslavery and antislavery settlers for contol for Kansas Territory
- provoked violence in 1855 -president pierces adm. failed implement pop sovereignty peacefully in "bleeding kansas" |
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John brecknridge
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-President Buchanan vp
-nominated for president by the southern wing of the divided Democratic party in 1860 -supposted protection of slavery -lost to Lincoln |
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John Brown
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-radical abolitionist who violently attacked slavery
-led pottatomie massacre against proslavery settlers in kansas in 1856 -also led the harpers ferry raid in 1859 -arrested and became a martyr for the abolitionist cause |
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James Buchanan
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-1854 coauthor of "ostend manifesto"
-won preidency as the nominee as the democratic party in 1856 -demo. party divied along north-south lines -he was paralyzed by indecision during the secession crisi of 1860-1861 |
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John C. Calhoun
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-leader in congress
-represented south carolina n the senate -secretary of war -authored the doctrine of nullification that paved the way got the more radial doctrine of secession |
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Henry Clay
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-Preminent leaders congress from the war of 1812 to the compromise of 1850
-fashining the missouri compromise -espoused the "American system" for national econmic development |
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Compromise of 1850
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-Congress's attempt to settle several outstanding issues involving slavery
-banded slave trade <3 but not slavery :( in DC -admitted California as a free state -applied pop. socereignty to mexican terriory -settled the texas-new mexico boundry dispute -more stringent fugitive slave law |
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Stephen A. Douglas
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- Democratic sentor of Illinois
-Resulted in the Comp. of 1850 -Championed Pop. Sovereignty in the 1850s -introduced the Kansas-Nabraska Bill in 1854 -Northern Demo. presidential candidate in 1860 |
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Dred Scott Decision
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-1857 Supreme Court ruled that blacks werent citizens and couldnt sue in Fed. Court
-made Missouri Comp. unconstitutional -Threatened both the central plank of the rep party, free soild and the concept of pOp sovereignty |
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Freeport Doctrine
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-Durring Licon-Duoglas debates i 1858 douglas declared that even in the face og the "dred Scott" deision the people of a territory could exclude slavery by not passing tge local ordnances
- Helped Douglas win reelection to the senate but hurt his bid for the democratic presidential nominaion in 1860 |
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Republican Party
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-organized in 1855 in response to the Kansas-Nebraska Act
-party of northern opponents of the territorial expansion of slavery -adopted most of the Whigs -party nominated John C. Fremont for president in 1856 and Lincoln for president 1860 |
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William Seward
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-New York senator
-appealed to "higher law" than the Constitution -opposed the expansion of slavery -helped found the Republican party in 1850's -president Lincoln's secretary of state |
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squatter sovereignty
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--thought of by Lewis Cass in 1848, he thought it would end the question of slavery in the territories
-called for organizing the territories without mention of slavery, leaving it to local settlers to determine whether they wanted slavery or not |
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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-wife and daughter of abolitionists
-wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin", presented slaves as real people, sympathy for slaves, bestseller |
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Charles Sumner
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-abolitionist seator from Massachusetts
- 1856 brutally beaten by proslavery congressman for his "Crime Against Kansas" speech -after civil war was a leader of the Radical Republicans who demanded equal rights for freedom |
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Free-soil Party
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-1848 antislavery Democrats joined w/ the abolitionist liberty party to make the free-soil party
-nominated Martin Van Buren for president -opposed the expansion of slavery into territories |
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Fugitive Slave Law
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-part of the compromise of 1850
-passed new fugitive slave law -compel citizens to assist in the return of runaway slaves |
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Harpers Ferry Raid
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-1859 John Brown and followers raided harpers ferry
-in virginia - planned to arm local slaves,lead an armed rebellion, black republic -brown was arrested, tired for treason, executed -Martyr |
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
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-1854 Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois
-to organize the remianing Louisiana Purchase Territory, pop sovereingty -outraged north |
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Know-Nothing Party
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-American nativist, anti-immigrant, anti-catholic political party org in the early 1850s in reponse to the era's flood of catholic immigrats from ireland and germany
-enjoyed some success in local and state elections in 1854 but failed to sustain its existence |
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Lincoln!!!!!!!!!!!!! <3
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-Lincoln was a one term congressman from Illinois during the mexican war
-His debates w/ senator stephen douglas in 1858 propelled him to national atttention and the rep. nomination for president 1860 -won -led Union during civil war, issued the Emancipation proclamation :) |
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Lincoln Douglas Debates
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-Senare race in Illinois in 1858 Linclon and douglas engaged in a series of debates, which focused on the implications of te "dred scott" deision and the furture of slavery in america
-lincoln won wide acclaim in north, douglas won the reelection though |
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Franklin Pierce
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-dark-horse Candidate who won the democratic party's pesidential nominaion from lewis cass and james buchanan in 1852
-defeated the whig candidate, winfield scott in the election -Not a strong leader |
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popular sovereignty
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-hatched by michigan senator Lewis Cass in 1848 he urged t as a solution to thequestion of slavery in the territories
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Uncle Toms Cabin
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-1852 in response to the fugitive slave act
-presented slaves as real people to the northern audience -north began to qustion the justness of the "peculiar institution" |
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Ananconda Policy
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-General Winfield Scott's strategy for the union in the civil war
-to blockade the southern coast and gain contorl of the mississippi -squeeze the confederacy like an anaconda :( |
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Antietam
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-bloodiest battle of the civil war
- Antietam, Maryland 1862 -Neither side won -General Lees army retreated back into virginia after the battle - Lincoln announced the preliminary Emancipation Proclamaton after the battle |
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Conscription
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-Both Feds.(1862) and Union (1863) raised the manpower by military draft
-this was resented by both north and south and was the cause of the cause of a riot in NYC -Forces both armies were raised through voluntary enlistment |
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Copperheads
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-mostly northen Democrats who opposed war against the confederacy (south)
-WANTED PEACE :) |
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Jefferson Davis
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-1st and only president on confederate states of america
-was a repected senator from Mississippi and former secretary of war -strong natl. leader during the war |
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Emancipation Promclamation
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-jan. 1st 1863
-freed a;; slaves in areas of rebellion against the us (south) |
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Fort sumter
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-confederate fired on Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor, South Carolina
-April 12,1861 -Beginning of the Civil War :( |
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Gettysburg
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-4 day battle in july 1863
-turning point of war -General Lees forces (south) were badly battered, and returned to Virgina |
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Ulysses S. Grant
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-1864 Lincoln but grant in comand of all union forces
-he slowly batters Lee's armies into subission in the Wilderness Campaign around richmond in 1864-1865 -Accepted lees surender at appomattox courthouse n 1865 -elected president in 1868 and 1872 -sandal |
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Stonewall jaCkson
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-Confed. key military commanders
-killed in the battle f Chancellorsville 1863 -shot by one of his own soldiers :( |
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King Cotton Diplomacy
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-outset of the war
-South wanted britain and france to assist them because they were dependent on their cotton -failed becuase europeans found alternative supplies of raw cotton |
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Robert E. Lee
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-Comander of the Conf. Army in Northern Virginia
-Brilliant Tactician -Led at Antietam and gettysburg -Surrendered to General grants at appomattox courthouse Virginia in 1865 |
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keegan hertz
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best mom ever <33333333333 =)
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