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26 Cards in this Set
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Free-soil Party
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A political dedicated to stopping the expansion of slavery.
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Missouri Compromise 1820
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A series of laws enacted in 1820 to maintain the balance of power between slave states and free states.
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Compromise 1850
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Series of congressional laws intending to settle major disagreements between free states and slave states.
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Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854
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An 1854 law that established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and gave their residents the right to decide whether to allow slavery.
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Henry Clay
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The speaker of the house when the Missouri compromise was passes. Also the plan was his idea.
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John Brown
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Abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia
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Daniel Webster
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A senator from Massachusetts and the most powerful speaker of his time.
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Robert E. Lee
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A talented military leader, He did not want to fight the union, but he felt that he had to stand for Virginia
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Fort Sumter
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A federal fort located in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina; the Southern attack on Fort Sumter marked the beginning of the civil war.
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Border states
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A slave state that borders a state in which slavery was illegal
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King cotton
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Cotton was called king cotton because cotton was important to the worlds market, and the South grew most of the cotton for European
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Blockade
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When armed forces prevent the transportation of goods or people out of an area.
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Anaconda Plan
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A strategy by which the Union proposed to defeat the Confederacy in the Civil War.
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Revolver
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A pistol with revolving chambers enabling several shots to be fired without reloading.
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Battle of Bull Run
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An 1861 battle of the Civil War in which the South chocked the North with a victory.
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Minié ball
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A bullet with a hollow base
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Ulysses S. Grant
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18th President of the United States; commander of the Union armies in the American Civil War
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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A novel published by Harrier Beecher Stowe in 1852 that portrayed slavery as brutal and immoral
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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United States writer of a novel about slavery that advanced the abolitionists' cause
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Fugitive Slave Act
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A law to help slaveholders recapture runaway slaves.
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Dred Scott v. Sanford
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An 1895 Supreme court case in which a slave, Dred Scott, sued for his freedom because he had been taken to live in an in territories where slavery was illegal; the court ruled ageist Scott.
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Harpers Ferry
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A federal arsenal in Virginia that was captured in 1859 during a slave revolution.
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Secede
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To withdraw
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Confederate States of America
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The confederation formed in 1861 by the Southern states after their secession from the Union
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Jefferson Davis
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American statesman; president of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War
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Cavalry
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Soldiers on horseback.
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