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77 Cards in this Set
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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book by Harriet Beecher Stowe that greatly strengethened northern antislavery feeling
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The IMpending Crisis of the South
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Hinton R. Helper's book that said slavery did great harm to the poor whites of the South
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conflict over slavery in Kansas was...
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greatly escalated by abolitionist-funded settlers and proslavery "border ruffians" from Missouri
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John Brown
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fanatical abolitionist who killed five proslavery settlers at Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas and was later killed at Harpers Ferry
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Lecompton Constitution
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would protect owners of slaves already in Kansas even if voted for without slavery
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elecction of 1856 signaled
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the dramatic rise of the Republican party
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Dred Scott decision
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declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional and said slaves could be taken anywhere b/c they were property
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panic of 1857 made the South believe
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its economy was fundamentally stronger than the North's
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key issue in the Lincoln-Douglas debates was
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whether people of a territory could prohibit slavery in light of the Dred Scott decision
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after John Brown affair, Southerners
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thought violent abolitionist sentiments were shared by the whole North
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in the election of 1860 the Democratic party
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split in two:
Northern Democrats-Douglas Southern Democrats-Breckenridge |
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Lincoln won the presidency
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without majority of the popular vote and with the electoral majority derived only from the North
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timing of secession
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7 during Buchanan's term; 4 during Lincoln's term
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Lincoln rejected the _______ Compromise because
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(Crittenden) it permitted the further extension of slavery north of the line of 36.30
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a powerful, personal novel that altered the course of Ameican politics
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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a book by; a southern witer that argued that slavery especially oppressed poor whites
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The Impending Crisis of the South by Hinton R. Helper
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riflesa paid for by New England abolitionist and brought to Kansas by antislavery pioneers
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Beecher's Bibles
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term that described the prairie territory where a small-scale civil war erupted in 1856
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Bleeding kansas
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tricky s=proslavery document designed to bring Kansas into the Union but blocked by Stephen A. Douglas
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Lecompton Constitution
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anti-immigrant party headed by former President Fillmore that competed with Republicans and Democrats in the election of 1856
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American (Known-Nothing) Party
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controversial Supreme Court ruling that blacks had no ciivl or human rights and that Congress could not prohibit slavery in the territories
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Dred Scott v Sanford
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sharp economic decline that increased northern demands for a high tariff and convinced southerners that the North was ecnonomically vulnerable
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Crisis of 1857
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thoughtufl political discussions during an Illinois Senate campaign that sharply defined national issues concerning slavery
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Lincoln-Douglas debates
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newly formed middle-of-the-road party of elderly politicians that sought ompromise in 1860, but carried only three border states
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Constitutional Union Party
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first state to secede from the union in December 1860
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South Carolina
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a new nation that proclaimed its independence in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1861
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Confederate States of America
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a last-ditch plan to save the Union by providing guarantees for slavery in the territories
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Crittenden Compromise
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four-way race for the presidency that resulted in the election of a sectional minority president
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election of 1860 (Lincoln v Douglas v Breckenridge v Bell)
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period between Lincoln's election and his inauguration, during which the ineffectual President Buchanan remained in office
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lameduck period
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abolitionist group that sent settlers and 'beecher's bibles' to oppose slavery in Kansas
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New England Emigrant Aid Company
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"the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war" (the Civil War)
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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southern-born author whose book attacking slavery's effects on whites roused northern opinion
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Hinton R. Helper
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fanatical and bloody-minded abolitionist martry admired in the North and hated in the South
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John Brown
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weak Democratic president whose manipulation by proslavery forces divided his own party
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James Buchanan
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abolitionist senator whose verbal attack on the South provoked a physical assault that severly injured him
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Charles Sumner
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Southern congressman whose bloody attack on a northern senator fueled sectional hatred
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Preston Brooks
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romantic western hero and the firs Republican candidate for president
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John C. Fremont
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black slave whose unsuccessful attempt to win his freedom deepened the sectional controversy
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Dred Scott
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site of a federal arsenal where a militant abolitionist attempted to start a slave rebellion
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Harpers Ferry, Virginia
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leading northern Democrat whose presidential hopes fell victim to the conflict over slavery
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Stephen A. Douglas
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scene of militant abolitionist John Brown's massacre of proslavery men in 1856
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Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas
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Buchanan's vice president, nominated for president by breakaway southern Democrats in 1860
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John C. Breckenridge
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site where seven seceding states united to declare their independence from the United States
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Montgomery, AL
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former Uniteed States senator who in 1861 became the president of what called itself a new nation
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Jefferson Davis
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Lincoln's plan for Fort Sumter and its location
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(Charleston) to provision but not reinforce
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firing on Fort Sumter
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aroused Northern support for a war to put down the South's "rebellion"
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3 states that joined the COnfederacy only after Lincoln called for troops
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Virginia, Arkansas, and Tennessee
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Lincoln at first declared the war was being fought
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tos ave the Union and not to free the slaves
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border states (4)
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Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware
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Butternut Region
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Ohio, Indiana, Illinois-opposed an antislavery war
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Five Civilized Tribes fought for
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the Confederacy
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Confederacy had
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better trained officers and soldiers
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Union had
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immigrant manpower
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response to the Civil War in Europe
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aristocracy supported South; working classes supported North
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King Cotton failed b/c
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British found sufficient cotton from previous stockpiles and from Egypt and India
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Confederate raider Alabama
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showed Britain's un-neutral policy of allowing Confederate ships to be built in its naval yards
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Lincoln suspended certain civil liberties in order to
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save the Union
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ship from which two Confederate diplomats (Mason and Slidell) were removed, creatin g amajor crisis between London and Washington
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Trent
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vessel built in Britain that wrecked havoc on Northern shipping until it was finally suink in 1864
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Alabama
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ironclad warships that were kept out of Confederate hands by Minister Adam's stern protest to the British government
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Laird rams
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provision established by Congress in 1863, after volunteers ran out, that provoked violent protest in Northern cities
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draft/conscription law
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slipery Northern men who collected fees for enlisting in the Union army and then deserted
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bounty boys
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medical occupation that gained new status and employment opportunities because of women's Civil War service
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nursing
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financial arrangement set up by the federal government to sell government bonds and stabliize the currency
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National Banking System
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scornful term for Northern manufaturers who made quick fotunes out of selling cheaply made shoes and other inadequate goods to the U.S. Army
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Shoddy Millionaires
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Civil liberty that was suspended by Lincoln in defiance of the Constitution and the upereme Court's chief justice
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habeas corpus
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organization developed to provide medical supplies and assistance to Union armied in the field
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(Blackwell's) U.S. Sanitary Commision
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slippery French dictator who ignored the Mnoroe Doctrine by intervening in Mexican politics
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Napoleon III
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American envoy whose shrewd diplomacy helped keep Britain neutral during the Civil war
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Charles Francis Adams
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site of cross-border raids and plots by Southern agents and anti-British Americans during the Civil War
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Canada
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an Old World aristocrat, maniuplated as a puppet in mexico, who was shot when his puppet-master deserted him
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Maximilian
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scene of the largest Northern antidraft riot in 1863
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New York City
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Nation whose upper classes hoped for a Confederate victory, while its working classes sympathized with the antislavery north
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Britain
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an inexperienced lead in war but a genius at inspring and directin his nation's cause
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Abraham Lincoln
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leader whose conflict with states' rights advocates and ridig personality harmed his ability to moblize and direct his nation's war effort
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Jefferson Davis
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first woman physician and organizer of the United States Sanitary Commision
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Elizabeth Blackwell
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helped transofrm nursing into a respected profession during the Civil War
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Clara Barton
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