Civil War

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1 rebellion

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to fight against people in charge for something you believe in

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1 fugitive

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a person who broke the law and is running from the authorities (police).

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1 Nat Turner

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Led one of the most serious slave revolts.

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1 prejudice

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a negative opinion formed without proof

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1 Economy

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having to do with producing goods and services to make money

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1 Frederick Douglass

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Abolitionist and writer who led the attack on slavery in the mid 1800s by describing his own enslavement.

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1 manufacture

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to build in a factory

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1 agriculture

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farming

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1 liberate

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to free

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1 enslaved

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held as a slave

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2 emancipate

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to free from slavery

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2 Emancipation Proclamation

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an act issued by President Lincoln in 1862 that freed all slaves in the South

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2 Confederate States of America

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the alliance of 11 southern states that seceded from the Union in 1860 and 1861

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2 abolitionist

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a person who worked to end slavery in the U.S.

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2 Union

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the northern states during the Civil War

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2 William Lloyde Garrison

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Abolitionist and founder of the newspaper: "The Liberator".

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2 Angelina and Sarah Grimke

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Southern abolitionists who had seen the evils of slavery and spoke out against it

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2 Underground Railroad

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a system of secret routes that escaping slaves followed to freedom

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2 Levi and Catherine Coffin

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Quakers from Indiana, who helped slaves escape by hiding them in their house

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2 Harriet Tubman

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Abolitionist, underground railroad conductor, and spy for the Union Army during the Civil War

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2 Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Spoke for the rights of women at a convention they held in Seneca Falls, NY

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2 Sojourner Truth

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Slave who spoke out about the evils of slavery. She gave speeches in support or abolition and women's rights

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3 Missouri Compromise

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The compromise or agreement created an imaginary line from east to west through Louisiana Territory. Slavery would be allowed in the south and not in the north. Missouri was admitted as a slave state and Maine was admitted as a free state.

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3 Fugitive Slave Law

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This law required police in free states to help capture slaves escaping from slave states

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3 Compromise of 1850

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In this agreement written by Henry Clay, California was admitted as a free state and the north would agree to obey the Fugitive Slave Law

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3 Uncle Tom's Cabin

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A book written by Hearriot Beecher Stowe that protested the Fugitive Slave Law

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3 Kansas-Nebraska Act

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A law that allowed the Kansas and Nebraska territories to decide for themselves whether to allow slavery

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3 "Bleeding Kansas"

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Term that describes the violence that broke out between "free soilers" and slave owners in Kansas

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3 The Dred Scott Decision

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Stated that slaves were property and citizens can take their property anywhere, even free land

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3 John Brown's Raid

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Abolitionist, John Brown wanted to start a rebellion, so he raided a building that contained weapons in Harper's Ferry, Virginia. He planned to pass out weapons to slaves so they can rebel

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3 State's Rights

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The right of each state to make decisions for their state on all issues including slavery

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3 Secede

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to break off or leave the Union

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3 Confederate States of America

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The name of the new country that was formed when the south seceded from the Union

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3 Jefferson Davis

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The president of the Confederate States of America

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3 Abraham Lincoln

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a lawyer from Illinois who was elected president of the Union defeating Stephen A. Douglas

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3 Stephen Douglas

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Ran against Lincoln for the presidency and lost

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ch 17 fifteenth amendment

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gives all male citizens of the U.S. the right to vote, regardless of race

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ch 17 Fourteenth amendment

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makes African Americans citizens of the U.S. and guarantees them the same legal rights as whites

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ch 17 Thirteenth Amendment

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Abolishes slavery

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ch 17 Gettysburg Address

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a famous speech by President Lincoln

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ch 17 Reconstruction

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Rebuilding the South

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ch 17 Freedmen's Bureau

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an agency created or established by Congress to help African Americans after the Civil War

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ch 17 Anaconda Plan

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The Union's plan for victory in the Civil War

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ch 17 Ku Klux Klan

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a group of southerners formed to frighten and control African Americans and their white supporters

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ch 17 Jim Crow Laws

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Laws that made discrimination against African Americans legal

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ch 17 sharecropping

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the system of renting land for a share of the crop raised on the land

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ch 17 segregation

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the separation of white people and black people

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ch 17 Black codes

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Southern laws that described the rights and duties of freed African Americans

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ch 17 impeach

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to charge a government official of wrongdoing

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ch 17 blockade

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to block off

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ch 17 total war

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an all-out war to destroy people's ability and will to fight