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37 Cards in this Set
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Whigs nominated General Zachary Taylor Democrats nominated Senator Lewis Cass |
The election of 1848
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petitioned for admission to the Union as a free, or non-slave state
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California
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The admission of this state to the Union would upset the balance
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California
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the admission of California as a free state and provided for the enforcement of the Fugitive State Law
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The Compromise of 1850
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he rose to make the last great speech in the Senate, Seventh of March speech |
Daniel Webster
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he was from Massachusetts
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Daniel Webster
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Stated it would be a crime to let a slave escape
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Fugitive State Law
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It was used as an escape route to the worth
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Underground railroad
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She was an escaped slave from Maryland.
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Harriet Tubman
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Let 300 slaves to freedom in the 1850s.
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Harriet Tubman
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wrote the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, which dramatized the cruelty of slavery |
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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the act that would created two new territories
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
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was a slave whose owner died and then he sued his owner's wife for his freedom
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Dred Scott decision
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Supreme Court ruled slaves are not citizens, slaves are property of their owners
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Dred Scott decision
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was an abolitionist who lead a group of 18 men into Harper's Ferry
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John Brown
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led a raid of the Federal arsenal, armed the salves, and then slaughter the families who kept slaves in their homes and on plantations an farms
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John Brown and Harper's Ferry
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first Republican President
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Abraham Lincoln
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Confederate President
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Jefferson Davis
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the first battle took place at Fort Sumter, a Union -base located on the island in Charleston, SC (1861-1865)
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Civil War
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the south won the first major battle of the Civil War
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First Battle of Bull Run
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The south called the first battle of the Civil War this
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The First Manassas
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became the best remembered soldier in the fight at Manassas Juction
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Stonewall Jackson
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He stood there like a stone wall during the battle
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Stonewall Jackson
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a loyal American who desired to protect his home and family
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Robert E. Lee
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Had more manpower. more factories to produce supplies. better rail system to move troops |
North Advantages
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had motivation of defending their homes prepared for war by storing supplies better military leaders |
South Advantages
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Blockade the entire southern coastline. Seize control of the Mississippi River to cut the South off from the West. Further divide the South. Capture the Confederate Capital of Richmond. |
Anaconda Plan
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captured the river outposts of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson
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General Ulysses S. Grant
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nicknamed unconditional surrender
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General Ulysses S. Grant
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the most promising southern invention, let to the modern metal plated warship
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Iron Clad Ships - Merrimac
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from the north. had two guns mounted in a revolving turret and most of the ship was below the surface of the water
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Iron Clad Ship - Monitor
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took place in Shiloh, Tennessee. 3,520 soldiers died and the South won
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Battle of Shiloh
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Bloodiest day of the war
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Battle of Antietam
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General Burnside attempted to capture Fredericksburg but Lee and Jackson defeated the Union troops |
Battle of Fredericksburg
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Declared the freedom of slaves in the states which had seceded from the Union
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Emancipation Proclamation
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June 1863, Lee marched 70,000 men across the Potomac, through Maryland, and into the heart of Union territory
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Battle of Gettysburg
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President Lincoln gave a 3 minute speech and focused of the heroism and tragedy shared by the North and South
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The Gettysburg Address
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