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16 Cards in this Set
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Anaconda plan |
North's plan to blockade the ports, split the confederacy into two down the Mississippi River and and to capture their capital (Richmond, Virginia). |
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Carpetbaggers |
Republicans (northerners) that moved South after the Civil War. |
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Compromise of 1850 |
A compromise meant to ease the tension over slavery that pleased the North by admitting California as a free state, pleased South by issuing a harsher fugitive slave act. |
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Debt peonage |
Situation where blacks are enslaved because they in large debt to their employers and can't pay back. |
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Emancipation proclamation |
Issued by Lincoln as military tactic, freed the slaves in the south or confederacy |
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13th amendment |
Free slaves throughout all of the US |
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14th amendment |
Granted citizenship to all persons born in the US |
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15th amendment |
Granted black males the right to vote |
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Freeport doctrine |
Idea expressed by Stephen Douglas that indicated any territory could exclude slavery by simply refusing to pass laws to support it. |
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Gettysburg/Gettysburg Address |
A three day battle which inflicted devastating losses to both side and was followed by Lincoln giving a famous speech here, in 1863, to dedicate the cemetery to the soldiers which had fallen in battle. |
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Jim Crow laws |
Laws enacted by southern states to separate white and black people in public and private facilities |
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Ku klux klan |
A secret organization that used terrorist tactics in an attempt to restore white supremacy in Southern states after the Civil War. |
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Ostend manifesto |
A document that stated that American wanted to purchase Cuba from Spain. |
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Radical Republicans |
Republicans that wanted to destroy the political power of former slaveholders and give African Americans full citizenship and grant the right to vote. |
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States' rights |
The idea that states had the right to control all issues/laws in their state not specifically given to the federal government by specific wording. |
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Vicksburg |
A city in Mississippi where a decisive battle of the civil war was fought. The end result was a confederate loss, which meant one of the only two strong holds on the Mississippi River was in Union control. |
