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35 Cards in this Set
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Ether
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Used in medecine, to knock people out.
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Who created Baseball?
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Abner Doubleday created the basic rules.
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Gold Rush
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Gold was discovered in 1849 in California. Lots of people came, called the 49'ers.
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Who created/What was the telegraph?
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Samuel Morse- it sped up the spread of information
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Aboliitionist
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Someone who thinks slavery should end now.
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Emancipationist
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Someone who wants to gradually end slavery.
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An example of emancipationist/ abolishinist
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Henry Clay/ Cassius Clay
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The North Star was written by...
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Fredrick Douglas wrote...
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The Liberator was written by...
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William Loyd Garrison wrote...
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The True American was written by...
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Cassius Clay wrote...
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Reform Movements of 1850's
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When:
- People tried to get a better public school system, and - People tried to improve conditions in factories, and Mental Institutions |
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Wtote Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Story of Uncle Tom's Cabin
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A slave named Uncle Tom was beaten by his mean master, Simon Legree. Simon eventually kills Tom.
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Simon Legree
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Adjective- Mean or horrible person
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Uncle Tom
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Noun- African-American who doesn't stand up for him/herself.
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Effecects of Uncle Tom's Cabin on the North
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- Best Seller
-They get bad idea of South |
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Effect of Uncle Tom's Cabin on the South
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- Banned
- South said harriet didn't know what she was talking about, and said "we treat slaves better than your factory workers |
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What Licoln said when he met Stowe
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"So your the little lady that started the civil war"
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What inspired Harriet Beecher Stowe to write Uncle Tom's Cabin
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She saw a slave auction in Washington, Ky while on her way to visit a friend in Cincinati
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Election 1860: Republican candidate
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Abraham Lincoln
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1860 election: Northern Domocrat candidate
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Stephen Douglas
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1860 election: Southern-Democrat
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John Brekinridge
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1860 election: Constitutional Union Party
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John Bell
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November, 1860
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Aberaham Lincoln elected president w/ vice Hannibal Hamlin
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December 1860
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South Carolina seceeds form the union
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February 1861
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Confederate States of America Founded with president Jefferson Davis
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March 1861
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Lincoln inagurated
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April 12, 1861
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P.T. Beauragard fires cannons at for Summter
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April 13, 1861
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Aderson Surrender
Note: Anderson used to teach P.T. at Westpoint |
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April 15, 1861
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Civil War officially declared
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Location of Fort Sumter
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Charleston Harbor of Charleston, South Carolina
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What Fort Sumter is.
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A federal arsenal
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Leader at Fort Sumter
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Robert Anderson
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Happenings of Fort Sumter
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Robert Anderson sends telgram to Lincoln asking whether he should abandon Fort Summter (let SC take it over) or will Lincoln send backup supplies" Lincoln sends telegram to Anderson and SC gov saying "Fort Sumter will be resupplyed, and if SC attacks, war will be declared"
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Confederate Capitals
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It was first Montgomery, Alabama, but later changed to Richmond, Virginia. (less than 10 miles from DC)
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