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15 Cards in this Set
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expansionism
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extending its national boundaries
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popular soverignity
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idea that people holdl the final authority in the goverment. In this belief, voters in a new territory would decide whether or not to allow slavery.
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nationalism
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strong sense of pride r devotion in one's own country
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blockade
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the shutting off of a port to keep people or supplies from moving in or out
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annex
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add on
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suffrage
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right to vote
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segregation
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seperating people of different races in public places
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nullify
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cancel
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manifest destiny
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belief that America should expand west towards the Pacific
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Abe Lincoln
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president of union
had little political and military experience |
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Frederick Douglas
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best known black abolitionsit
born in slavery, but escaped and spoke about the sorrows of slaverya nd the meaning of freedom |
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Willima Loyyd Garison
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one of the most outspoken white abolitonst
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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wrote the book Uncle Tom's cabin which showed the evils of slavery and teh injustice of teh Fugitive Slave law
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Dorthea Dix
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helped create a mental hospital and inspected many jails in many states. She helped mentally ill patients be treated nicely, not as criminals. She became the superintedent of nurses in the Union Amry
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Elizabeth Blackwell
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set up the nation's first medial school or women
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