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30 Cards in this Set
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Natural boundary between Texas and Mexico
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Rio Grande River
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19th century growth was due to...
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Suitable soil for planting and cultivating cotton
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Plantations needed these for labor on large areas of land..
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slavery
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These states had textile manufacturing, significant urban labor force, and supported high tariffs...
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Northern States
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The cotton gin did this...
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increased the need for slave labor in the south
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Texas Annexation
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1845
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Texas Independence
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1836
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Northern industries favored high tariffs (taxes) because...
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increase the demand for American manufactured goods
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Fighting broke out in Kansas (Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854) because of... conflict know as...
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slavery...Bleeding Kansas
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The Southerners were concerned over the number of free states and slave states because...
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the country has more free states
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In the 1830's anti-slavery writers, speakers, and newspapers editors established...
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the abolitionist movement
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We lived in cities, worked as skilled people, church served as our social gathering, and we attended separate schools...
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we are free blacks
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we lived in rural areas, worked as farm laboreres, social gatherings were discouraged, we were viewed as inferior, and we did not attend school
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we are slaves
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Delegates at the Secession Convention were in favor of Texas seceding from the union because...
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they believed citizens should be allowed to own slaves
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Why did slavery influence Texas to join the Civil War...
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Slavery was vital to their economy
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U.S. bought the Louisiana Purchase in this year..
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1803
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Vicksburg, Mississippi surrendered to Grant, who is...
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the Union forces
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First shots of Civil War...
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Fort Sumter
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Emancipation Proclamation affected which slaves...
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Confederate states slaves
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Vicksburg, 1863 resulted...
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the Confederate states were divided into two sections
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We surrendered at the Appomattox Court House...
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Confederate Army
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Battle of Vicksburg did what...
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isolated the western part of the Confederacy
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President of Confederacy
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Jefferson Davis
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16th President of the United States
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Abraham Lincoln
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Lincoln quoted that we cannot separate, what is he refering to?
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Secession of slave states and Union.
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Lincoln quoted we should make peace with ourselves and all nations, what is he refering to?
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reuniting the nation
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Texas and U.S. Constitution are alike how...
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checks and balances
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To keep our government from becoming to powerful, we have...
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checks and balances
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Terms that describe our government
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republicanism, federalism, and democracy
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One of the events that caused Texas to secede from the Union...
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President Lincoln was elected.
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