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53 Cards in this Set
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Harriet Breecher Stowe |
Wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin" Sold millions worldwide |
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Hinton R. Helper |
Wrote "The Impending Crisis of the South" Said poor whites in the South are the true victims |
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Bleeding Kansas |
Abolitionists sent people to settle in Kansas Many brought "Breechers Bibles"(rifles) Southerners moved in Rigged election |
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LeCompton Constitution |
Document to apply for statehood in popular sovereignty Kansas wanted to be a slave state |
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Topeka Constitution |
Document to make Kansas a free territory |
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Sack of Lawrence |
Attacked by pro slave forces |
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Henry word beecher |
Barriers brother, helped raise money for the purchase of sharp rifles |
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John Brown |
White American abolitionist who believed armed insurrection was the only way to overthrow the institution of slavery |
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Pottawatoie Massacre |
Captured and killed t slave owners |
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Stephen Douglas |
Called for a new election Free soilers swamped the polls KS admitted as a slave state in 1861 |
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Charles Sumner |
Senator of MA a leading abolitionist |
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Brooks-Sumner affair |
Sumner: speech "the crime against Kansas" Singled out senator Andrew Butler of SC. Brooks: congressmen from SC and Butlers cousin Beat Sumner with a cane repeatedly while several senators watched |
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Dred Scott |
A black slave, sued for freedom on basis of his long residence on free soil |
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Dred Scott v. Sanford |
Two questions court must answer: 1. Did Scott's residence in free territory make him free? 2. Did Scott have the right to sue in federal courts? |
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Dred Scott decision |
1. Slaves are property. 2. Scott could not sue for his freedom 3. No black could become a citizen of the U.S. 4. MO compromise unconstitutional 5. Congress can't ban slavery from the territories |
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Panic of 1857 |
1. Gold from CA inflated 2. Overproduction of grain 3. Overspeculation in rail roads |
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Tariff of 1857 |
Down to 20% |
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Lincoln Douglas debates |
Over the Illinois Senate seat Douglas supported popular soverignty Lincoln said slavery was morally wrong |
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Election of 1860 |
National democrats: Stephen douglas -popular sovereignty agree to enforce fugitive slave law Constitutional democrats: John C Breckiniridge -favored extension of slavery Constitutional union: John Bell -moderated who wanted to presereve the union Republicans: Abraham Lincoln -no extension of slavery -protective tariff -pacific railroad. -internal improvements -homestead act |
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Jefferson Davis |
President of the confederate States Constitution similar to the article of confederation |
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Crittenden Proposal |
Proposed amendments to the constitution: 1. Reestablish the 36° 30' line for territories. 2. Popular Sovereignty when territories become States. -not accepted/civil war is result |
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Fort Sumter |
-fort in SC still controlled by the union -Supplies low. May have to surrender. |
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Boarder states |
Slave States that stayed with U.S. -MI, KY, MD, DEL, WV. -Lincoln had to insist that the primary goal was to save the Union not to free the slaves. |
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Southern advantages |
1. Only need a dead to win 2. South has a moral cause -want to protect "their way of life3. South has the best officers |
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Robert E. Lee |
Comander of confederate. Lincoln wants him, offers to be colander politely refuses. |
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Southern disadvantages |
1. Lack of manufacturing 2. Lack of transportation system 3. Form of gov't |
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Northern advantages |
1. Maufactoring 2. Control or the sea 3. Man power -22 million vs. 9 million 4. Immigration 5. Balcks join the army after emancipation |
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Northern disadvantages |
1. Less prepared to fight 2. Difficutly w comanders |
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Why great britian did not help the south |
1. Britain had ordered a surplus of cotton 2. North captured cotton and sent it to G.B. 3. South ran the blockade 4. India and Egypt increased cotton output. 5. Weapons industry relieved unemployment 6. North sent good to G.B. 7. Uncle Tom's cabin |
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Federal conscription |
-could have a substitute or pay $300 to gov't -draft riots in NYC/mostly Irish. South also used conscription -attempt if you owned more than 20 slaves |
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National Banking System |
Banks backed by the system could buy and distributed bonds and get paper money backed by the gov't. |
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Ulysses S. Grant |
A general who was determined to slog his way to victory at whatever cost in life and limb |
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Napoleon III |
Emperor of France took advantage of Amercias preoccupation w it's own internal problems, dispatched an army in Mexico |
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Habeas Corpus |
A legal action by means of which detainees can seek relief from unlawful imprisonment |
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Greenbacks |
Paper currency issued by the U.S. |
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Fifty-niners |
Gold seekers who streamed into the Pikes peak country |
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Elizabeth Blackwell |
America's first female physician |
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Clara Barton |
Superintendent or nurses for the union army |
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Bill run |
Confederates (led by Stonewall Jackson) Defeated the union -inspired the north to start training -added to south's overconfidence |
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George McClellan |
-moved toward Richmond by water -forced back by Lee and Jackson August: 2nd Battle of Bull Run Lee defeated the union troops |
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Antietam |
One day of fighting. Lee invading MD Might win boarder States to help confederacy. Thinks it may become another |
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Battle of Saratogoa |
Wanted to win support from Europe McClellan stopped Lee Turning point of the war Lincoln claimed a moral victory |
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Emancipation proclamation 1863 |
Wanted to wait for a northern victory Freed slaves in the rebellious States Strengthed moral cause for the north |
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Gettysburg |
Lee attacked into Pennsylvania 3 days of fighting over 50,000 causalitiws Less army pushed back |
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Gettysburg address |
Speech given by Lincoln ststjng all men are created equal |
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Vicksburg |
Victory for north (led by Grant) |
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March to the Sea |
- led by William Tecumseh Sherman -total war tactic Marched from Atlanta to Savannah 285 miles ling, 60 miles wide. Burned everything Turned north up to N.C Left over 4ok miles of ruin |
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Copperheads |
Extreme "peace democrats" in the north Obstructed war efforts |
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Wilderness campaign |
Grant in charge of union troops. U.S. military in VA, head towards Richmond -decided in war of attrition |
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Cold Harbor |
-lost 7,000 men in 1 hour Captured Richmond |
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Results of civil war |
1. Over 600,000 died -1 million casualties 2. Extreme States rights crushed 3. $20 billion 4. Legacy of hate 5. Souls south/ democracy |
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Appomattox courthouse |
The last battle of the American civil war |
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John Wilkes booth |
The man who assassinated Pres. Abraham Lincoln |
