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16 Cards in this Set
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Missouri Compromise |
Missouri enters as a slave state and Maine came in as a free state. |
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The Compromise of 1850 |
California entered the Union as a free state. (Fugitive Slave Law) |
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Fugitive Slave Law |
Required that escaped slaves be returned to their owners. White people who were helping slaves run away, would go to jail if they were caught. Part of the Compromise of 1850 |
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Popular Sovereignty |
Popular refers to people; sovereignty refers to power. "People Power." "People Vote." |
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Kansas-Nebraska Act |
The people of Kansas and Nebraska vote for themselves if they would have slaves or not. |
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Bleeding Kansas |
People moving into Kansas telling people to vote the "right" way by using violence. |
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The Dred Scott Case Dred Scott v. Sanford |
Dred Scott v. Sanford Dred Scott- slave Sanford- owner -Slaves are property -The line in the Missouri Compromise was illegal.
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Abolitionists (Abolish) |
Wanted to abolish to end slavery. |
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Secede (Secession) |
To leave (anything) in this case leave the United States. Confederate States of America. |
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Nullification |
The South believed that states had the right to nullify or make a law to ignore a federal law. |
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Emancipation Proclamation |
Freed all slaves (Lincoln's speech) |
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The 13th Amendment |
The final end of slavery. |
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Reconstruction |
Lincolns plan very nice/easy. Radical Republicans Plan (very harsh punishment)
Rebuilding South after Civil War. |
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Robert E. Lee |
General of the South Won many battles. |
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Jefferson Davis |
President of the South. |
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Freedman Bureau |
Group of people that helped former slaves by clothing,feeding, and education. |
