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22 Cards in this Set
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Nat Turner's Rebellion
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-Nat Turner/slaves
-Led a slave rebellion killed 60 whites(some innocent), then captured -1831 -Virginia -Believed God willed him to lead his people to salvation -Lead to tightening of slave laws |
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National Trades Union
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-Union workers
-Journeymen's organized formed it, faced opposition from bankers and owners, largest union -1834 -USA -To protect workers rights -Still have today, improved conditions because they became backed by the courts |
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Santa Fe/Oregon Trail
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-Northerners moving the West
-Santa Fe=busy trading trail, Oregon=wagons, migrating people. Awful conditions, very dangerous, died mostly of disease -1830s -Missouri to New Mexico and Oregon -To start new lives or for buisness -Paved way for Westward expansion |
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Alamo
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-Texans, Mexicans
-Texans attacked and drove Mexicans to a abandoned mission(Alamo). Santa Anna stormed and destroyed it and all US defenders died -1835 -Texas -To win the war -So many US died, "Remember the Alamo", pride in US |
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Gold Rush
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-Forty-niners
-Gold found in California, people migrated from everywhere (Europe) -1844 -California, Sutter's Mill -Traveled to change their lives by finding gold, traveled by Oregon trail, but few were successful. The people who sold picks and stuff were -Population skyrocketed, Westward expansion |
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Compromise of 1850
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-Henry Clay
-California is a free state, but more effective fugitive slave laws, New Mexico and Utah popular sovereignty -1850 -USA -To please both North and South -Held off civil war, trying to please both |
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
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-Douglas
-Said they should just split the territories and vote. Undermined compromise of 1820 and 50 -1854 -Kansas, Nebraska -To settle issue of slavery (even though they were above the 36 30 line) -Short term cause of civil war, created new republican party |
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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-Harriet Beecher Stowe
-Novel about a slave who was brutally treated. More than a million copies sold, South denied what that was what actually happened, North rallied behind it -1852 -USA and world-wide -An abolitionist, wanted to expose slavery and write a great novel -Long term cause of civil war, impact on US politics |
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Nativism
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-Know-nothings, anti-immigration
-Created the American Party, and the Order of the Star-Spangled Banner. Secret handshakes and passwords. -1850s -USA -They favored of native-born americans to immigrants -Created "Know-Nothing Party" and American Party -Negative tone against immigrants, new political party |
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Dred Scott Decision
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-Dred Scott (slave), Roger Taney
-Decided that b/c he was black, he could not sue, b/c salves are property, they can't be taken from owners, and Missouri Compromise was seen as unconstitutional anyway -1856 -USA supreme court -He lived w/master, and then master took him into a free state and brought him back, and he thought he should be freed. -Tension between North and South. Slavery hard to distinguish from property |
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Harper's Ferry
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-John Brown
-Led a band of 21 men into Virginia to sieze the arsenal at Harper's Ferry and release slaves and lead an uprising, but he got captured by Lee -1859 -Virginia -Radical abolitionist, wanted to lead the whole South's slaves into rebellion -Failed Brown is hanged |
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Monitor and Merrimack
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-South and North
-M and M traded fire, but nothing really could be done because the ships were ironclad. Ended in a tie -1860s -At sea -The Merrimack was a sunken N ship that the South re-made to be covered with iron, and after N saw S doing this, they made the Monitor. -Created ironclad ships, a new ship warfare |
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Emancipation Proclamation
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-Lincoln
-Freed slaves, but states had succeeded so it didn't have much effect. had more symbolic importance b/c it didn't immediatley free slaves -1863 -USA -It was made to discourage Britain from supported the South -Greatly angered South, compromise was no longer an option, had to be or not to be slavery |
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Draft Riots
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-Poor white workers (Irish immigrants)
-Led an uprising, wrecked draft places, attacked A-A's and rich whites, killed about 100 people -1863 -New York City -Poor whites were mad about the war b/c they were afraid the blacks would come and take all their jobs -Many killed, example of a class that didn't want the war, not everyone was in agreement |
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Battle of Gettysburg
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-Lee, Frank Haskell, Longstreet
-Very bloody 3-day battle, S would never enter N again to attack, N comes out on top. N held high ground -1863 -Pennsylvania -To win war, C invaded the N -Bloodiest battle of civil war, South would never again take forces and attack in Union territory, main reason U won war |
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Sherman's March
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-Roger Sherman
-Abandoned supply lines and marched through Georgia creating destruction in his path, burned most of ATL. Also marched through SC -1864 -GA and SC -Originally to cut off railroad supplies for C, then to make South "sick of war" -Awful, South affected had to slowly rebuild his path of destruction |
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Assassination of Lincoln
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-Lincoln and John Wilkes Booth
-Shot Lincoln at a play then jumped off the box and broke his leg -1865 -Washington -He was a Southern sympathizer -Very easy to kill president, security around president became tighter |
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Freedman's Bureau
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-Congress
-Assisted former slaves and poor whites in the South by giving them food and clothes. -1866 -South -To win South over, part of reconstruction -Set up many new facilities such as hospitals, industrial institutes, teacher-training centers and schools |
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Johnson's Impeachment
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-Johnson, military officials
-Formally charged with misconduct in office, but he was slimly declared not guilty -Tenure of Office -1867 -USA -J removed military officials who tried enforce reconstruction leaders felt he was avoiding reconstruction |
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Scalawags/Carpetbaggers
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-S=White Southerners who joined Republican party, C=Northerners who moved to the South after war
-S=Called by Democrats, S wanted to get black vote, C=Called by Democrats b/c they carried so few belongings they could keep them in a carpetbag -1870s and on -South -They dissaproved of what they were doing -Differences of point of view about reconstruction, conflict and name-calling |
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Sharecropping/Tenant Farming
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-Poor whites, blacks
-S=Landowners divided into plots and gave to workers and provided tools in exchange for 50% or more of their harvest, T=If they had earned enough money to rent land they would do that and keep the harvest -1870s and on -South -Blacks were out of work and poor whites got jobs taken away from some blacks -A not-so-great alternative to slavery, not all better after civil war |
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Compromise of 1877
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-Hayes, Republican leaders
-Withdraw of troops from Louisiana and SC, federal $ to build a railroad from Texas to West Coast, appoint a conservative cabinet member -1877 -USA -To please the Southern Democrats -Meant the end of the reconstruction in the South, prevented conflict between North and South |
