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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 passed which he envisioned
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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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A phrase used in the Southern United States mainly by Southern politicians and authors who wanted to illustrate the importance of the cotton crop to the Confederate economy during the American Civil War.
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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 proposed the surround and restrict the southern states making them weak and easy to defeat
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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 defeated the north
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Minie 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
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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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Calvary
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Soldiers on horseback.
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