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36 Cards in this Set
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"War Of the Tarriffs"
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protected Northern manufacturing profits were causing economic difficulty in the slave-holding South
Southerners had to pay much higher prices for imported manufactured goods |
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Cotton Kingdom
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cotton-producing region of the southern United States up until the Civil War.
Short lives in 1860 the employment of slave labor |
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Sucession of
the Upper South |
anti-slavery United States on their frontier, could never hope to maintain slavery as a viable economic and social institution.
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Dred Scott Case
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African descent imported into the United States and held as slaves, or their descendants[2]—whether or not they were slaves—were not protected by the Constitution and could never be citizens of the United States
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Nashville Convention
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Delegates met to consider a possible course of action if the United States Congress decided to ban slavery in the new territories being added to the country
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Military training
West point and the Napoleonic Wars |
Military Men- Baron antoine Heniri Samini
Karl VOn Clauswitz Developed Mathematical rules 1861- rifles invented , cone shaped barrel. |
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Military Organizations
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Full General- Army- 36,000
Lt General- Corps- 18,000 Major Gen. Division- 9,000 Brigadier. Gen. Brigade- 4,500 Lt.Col. Full Col. Regiment- 1000-1,500 Major or Lt. col. Battlaion (smallest significance) Captain- Company- 100 |
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Romanticism
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Empahzised individual expression, emotuion and logic and reason.
Concerned with problems created by industrial Revolution Want to Change Constitution |
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Southern Intangibles
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1. War Aims
What are you fighting for? all you had to do was survuve, defend homes resist invasion 2. Spirit of the South Population People knew that slavery couldnt survive in the south, and why didnt blacks get armed? 3. Boldness, inspirational qualities of the military and civilian leaders more people of the south joined the armed forces. South with the advantage of leadership- top five southerners. Recruit regiments by poster. |
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Eastern and Western Theaters
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Eastern:
Western:It originally represented the area east of the Mississippi River and west of the Appalachian Mountains |
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Grand Strategies
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1. Tactics- how you conduct battles, left right defence? calvary?
Strategy-How you conduct companies, how you go about position Grand Strategy: protect the statecraft and warcraft, conduct wars, buy off allies, do things they won't like. |
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Missouri Compromise 1820-1821
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agreement passed between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions. It prohibited slavery in the former Louisiana Territory
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John Brown's Raid
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attempt by abolitionist John Brown to start armed slave revolt by seizing a United States Arsenal at Harpers Ferry in Virginia in 1859. raid defeated Col. Robert E. Lee.
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Kansas Nebraska Act
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The act established that settlers could vote to decide whether to not allow slavery, in the name of popular sovereignty or rule of the people
Ease relations between the north and south. |
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Freeport Doctrine
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Lincoln tried to force Douglas to choose between the principle of popular sovereignty proposed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the United States Supreme Court case of Dred Scott which stated that slavery could not legally be excluded from the territories. Douglas', despite the court's ruling, slavery could be prevented from any territory by the refusal of the people living in that territory to pass laws favorable to slavery.
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wage-slaves or Wage Slavery
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a person is dependent for a livelihood on the wages earned, draw an analogy between slavery and wage labor
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Slavery and the mexican secession
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The Wilmot Proviso,by Senator David Wilmot, banning slavery in any new territory to be acquired from Mexico, not including Texas
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Election of 1848
parties/candidates/platforms/results |
Parties- Zach Taylor (Whigs) Lewis Cass (Democrat)
Taylor- talked abou secession, right away as free states Cass- Supporter of the Doctrine of Popular Sovereignty, which held that the people who lived in a territory should decide whether or not to permit slavery there Taylor wins election of 1848 |
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Compromise of 1850
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Hnery Clay of KT. floor of the senate 5 bills
1. Cali as free state 2.Mex secession into utah and NM 3. Abolition of interstate slavetrade in dist. of columbia 4. Texas NM boundaries in favor of NM 5. Strong fugitive slave law, arrest slaves on the run. |
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Native American Party/ Know-Nothings
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popular fears that the country was being overwhelmed by German and Irish Catholic immigrants, who were often regarded as hostile to U.S. values and controlled by the Pope in Rome
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Election of 1856 Parties/candidates/platforms/results
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James Buchanan- Democrat
John C fremont- Republican Milard Filmore- American Platform- Democrat- popular soverignty Republican- free white men, high tariffs, free homstead in west. total abolition of slavery american- Revival of sectional compromise Buchanan wins 1856 election 1.8-1.3 |
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Nullification of 1832
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that the federal Tariff of 1828 were unconstitutional and therefore null and void within the sovereign boundaries of South Carolina.
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Rise of The Republican Party
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Leader- Abraham Lincoln
goals- anti-slavery from Kansas Nebraska Act.Main issue, slavery in the territories |
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Election of 1860
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Sets the stage for the Civil War
Parties/Candidates: Lincoln (republican) Breckinridge (Democrat) Platforms- Lincoln: high tariffs and federal funding, protect and deny slavery. Breckinridge: Adhear to constitution of laws. Lincoln wins election of 1860: |
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Industrial Revolution
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tremendous increase in production/population
Hits New England area Wages controlled Steam engine- dont get tired/coal/wood. negative- social impications fantastic process for entrepenural elite War- result in industrial revolution |
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Crittenden Compromise
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1861
Amendment that would connect missouri compromise line and extend to Calisfornia . South would get NM and TX |
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Confederate Constitution
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the supreme law of the Confederate States of America,
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Panic of 1837
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May 10, 1837 in New York City, when every bank stopped payment in gold and silve. followed by a five-year depression, with the failure of banks and record-high unemployment levels.
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Election of 1852
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Parties/Candidates: Franklin Peirce- Democrats. Winfeild Scott- Whigs
Platforms- Scott- Anti-slavery reputation Winfield- Mx War Brigadier General Pierce wins 1852 election |
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Preston Brooks
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was a Democratic Congressman from South Carolina, known for severely beating Senator Charles Sumner on the floor of the United States Senate with a cane in response to a perceived insult
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Washington Peace Conference
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emphasis for peacefully preserving the Union focused on the eight slaveholding states with the states of Virginia and Kentucky playing key roles. reach compromise over the issues relating to slavery that were dividing the nation
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Fort Sumter
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The fort is best known as the site upon which the shots initiating the American Civil War were fired, at the Battle of Fort Sumter.
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recruiting the ranks and t he camp life
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Recruit from posters.
Discipline- rejected authority by nature larger numbers of population= harsh discipline. Camp life: Terrible conditions |
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Significance of the border States
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didn't secede and become part of the Confederacy. they believed if they invaded MD, Kt, Ms,DE, they would be greeted as liberators,
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James Tallmadge
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Tallmadge, an opponent of slavery, sought to impose conditions on Missouri that would extinguish slavery within a generation:
Instead the Missouri Compromise was agreed to. |
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uncle toms cabin
Hareit Beacher Stowe |
Uncle Tom, a long-suffering black slave around whom the stories of other characters—both fellow slaves and slave owners—revolve
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