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34 Cards in this Set
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Hiram Revels
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first black senator
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Crittenden Compromise
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Lincoln opposed it bc it would allow slavery to spread to some of the territories
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Charles Sumner
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MA senator, beaten, first an abolitionist, then a radical republican for racial equality
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George McClellan
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Union general who was heavily supported by Copperheads and southern sympathizers
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Thaddeus Stevens
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most powerful congressional radical republican, wished to punish the south, speaker of the H of R
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Harriet Tubman
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conductor on the Underground Railroad, freed more than 300 slaves
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Stephen Douglas
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Senator who blundered badly when he sponsored the KA-NE act
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William T. Sherman
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spread devastation on his army's march through GA; Lincoln's reelection was in doubt until his capture of Atlanta
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Sojourner Truth
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free black who spoke out eloquently against slavery
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Jefferson Davis
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pres of Conf
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James Buchanan
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lame duck pres who believed he had no power to prevent secession
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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wrote UNCLE TOM'S CABIN
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Hinton Helper
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Southerner who wrote THE IMPENDING CRISIS OF THE SOUTH which argued that nonslaveholding whites suffered most from slavery
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Robert E. Lee
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leader of the Army of Northern VA (Conf)
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paternalism
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fatherly way of treating slaves like children to protect them from mistreatment freedmen got
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Jay Cooke
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private banking house that marketed the bonds of the fed govt during the war
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John Brown
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murdered 5 supposedly pro-slavery men in Pottawatomie Massacre
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Ulysses Grant
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Union general who demanded unconditional surrender at Ft. Donnelson
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Dred Scott
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slave who had traveled to free territory; declared property by supreme court
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William Lloyd Garrison
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most conspicuous and hated of the abolitionists; wrote THE LIBERATOR; favored immediate, uncompensated emancipation
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Andrew Johnson
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only president to be impeached until Clinton
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anaconda policy
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overall strategic plan of the Union to defeat the Confed
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Stonewall Jackson
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Confederate gerneral; master of speed and deception; shot at Chancellorsville and died shortly
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Samuel Tilden
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NY attorney who proscecuted Boss Tweed; nominated for President
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Carl Schurz
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unsuccessful German-American general
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Wilmot Proviso
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said that slavery should be prohibited in lands from Mexico
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Franklin Pierce
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president who wanted overseas expansion, limiting Britain in Nicaragua, opening of Japanese trade, Cuba attempt
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Millard Fillmore
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became president when Zachary Taylor died, signed Compromise of 1850
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Horace Greeley
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editor of the NY TRIBUNE, nominated for pres by the Liberal Republicans
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Compromise of 1850
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postponed and evaded slavery; N and S couldn't agree on how popular sov worked
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Frederick Douglass
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outspoken abolitionist and ex-slave, beaten and mobbed on numerous occasions in the N
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popular sovereignty
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idea that people of a territory should vote on slavery
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Lewis Cass
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invented the concept and term popular sovereignty
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Stephen Douglas
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the little giant; championed popular sovereignty
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