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36 Cards in this Set
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Eli Whitney
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School teacher that invented the cotton gin in 1793
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cotton gin
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machine which removed seeds quickly from cotton and made cotton cloth cheaper to make. A valuable crop in the South.
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abolitionists
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people who spent much time trying to outlaw slavery
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Sojourner Truth
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A freed black women who spoke out against slavery (an abolitionist)
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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An author from Connecticut, wrote a novel called Uncle Tom's Cabin, in which she portrayed the evils of slavery.
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Underground Railroad
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a system of secret escape routes and hiding places that developed between the southern states and Canada
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Harriet Tubman
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One of the most famous leaders of the underground railroad. An escaped slave from Maryland
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Free States
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States not allowing people to own slaves
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Slave states
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States that allowed people to own slaves
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Compromise
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A decision that tries to satisfy both sides of an argument.
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Abraham Lincoln
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Indiana Farm Boy, Honest Abe, Elected the 16th president in 1860
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Stephen A. Douglas
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a democrat senator who sought to pass a bill which would allow settlers in new states to own slaves
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Confederate States of America
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South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas.
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Jefferson Davis
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President of the Confederate States of America
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Missouri Compromise
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The compromise made in 1820 admitting Missouri to the Union and establishing law concerning the admission of new slave states
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Union Soldiers
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called yankees, wore blue uniforms and marched beneath the stars and stripes
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Confederate Army
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Wore gray and waved their own confederate battle flag.
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Merrimac
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an old ship that the Union sunk and and Confederates covered it with iron plates
An ironclad ship |
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Monitor
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The Union's version of an ironclad ship
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Emancipation Proclamation
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President Lincoln announced on January 1, 1863, all slaves would be considered free in any states that were fighting against the North
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13th Amendment
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Gave all slaves in the United States and her territories their freedom
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Ulysses S. Grant
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Leader of the union troops / Lincoln's most valuable General
Known as Unconditional Surrender Grant |
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General Robert E. Lee
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head of the Confederate army
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General Stonewall Jackson
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General Lee's most valuable assistant
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William Harvey Carney
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Black American Union soldier who rescued the "Stars and Stripes" from a wounded flag bearer in the heat of battle.
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Battle of Fort Sumter
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the first battle of the Civil War
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Frederick Douglas
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black statesman who helped President Lincoln recruit blacks to fight for the Union
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Battle of Gettysburg
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The south lost this battle but it was the turning point of the war won by the North
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Battle of Vicksburg
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Union army won control of the Mississippi River, it stopped the Confederates from being able to send supplies from one side to the other.
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Appomattox Court House, Virginia
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The town in which Lee surrendered to Grant
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John Wilkes Booth
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The man who shot President Lincoln
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In God We Trust
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Motto during the civil war/ Official National motto given in 1956
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Clara Barton
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Founder of the American Red Cross
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Pony Express
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the mail route between St. Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California. Opened in 1860
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transcontinental railroad
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railroad that connected the Atlantic with the Pacific
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Union Pacific Company & Central Pacific Company
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The two railroad companies that worked with each other to connect the East and West
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