Hjh 8Th Grade Us History - Staar Review (Antebellum, Civil War, And Reconstruction Eras)

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Kansas-Nebraska Act

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Repealed the Missouri Compromise in 1853; allowed the citizens in the Louisiana Territory to decide on slavery by popular sovereignty

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Bleeding Kansas

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Resulted when pro-slavery and antislavery forces rushed into Kansas to decide the vote on slavery

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Republican

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Political party formed to stop the spread of slavery

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Fugitive Slave Act

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Part of the Compromise of 1850; hated by the North because escaped slaves had to be returned to the South

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Dred Scott vs Sanford

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A Supreme Court decision that ruled that slaves were property and not US citizens

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Lincoln-Douglas debates

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Made Abe Lincoln a national figure; made known Lincoln's position regarding slavery

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Stephen A Douglas

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Proposed that Kansas-Nebraska Act; a Democrat from Illinois who argued that voters in each territory should decide the slavery issue for themselves; won the race against Lincoln for Senate in 1856

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John Brown

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An extreme abolitionist who led a raid on the US arsenal at Harpers Ferry to get weapons for a slave revolt; considered a saint by the North

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Abe Lincoln

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His election as president in 1860 convinced South Carolina and other Southern states to secede from the Union

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1861-1865

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Dates of the Civil War; war between the Union and the Confederacy

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Jefferson Davis

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President of the Confederate States of America (Confederacy/South)

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President of the United States during the Civil War (Union/North); first president to be assassinated (1865)

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Abraham Lincoln

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Ft Sumter

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First battle of the Civil War

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To preserve the Union

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The reason why Lincoln decided to go to war rather than allow southern states to secede

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Emancipation Proclamation

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Issued by Lincoln on January 1, 1863; freed slaves in the Confederate states as Union soldiers won battles; gave Union soldiers another reason to fight besides preserving the Union

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Battle of Vicksburg

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An important Southern defeat because the South lost control of the Mississippi River and the Confederacy was split in two

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Battle of Gettysburg

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An important Southern defeat; the only battle fought in the North; so many died that Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address there in 1863 to honor dead Union soldiers

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Robert E Lee

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Confederate General who surrendedered at Appomattox courthouse in April 9, 1865; ended the Civil War

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Ulysses S Grant

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Union General who accepted Lee's surrender at Appomattox courthouse

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54th Massachusetts

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An all black regiment who gained fame for its heroic attack on Fort Wagner in South Carolina

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Wanted to preserve the Union, believed in democracy, liberty, and equality

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Abe Lincoln

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1st Inaugural Address

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Lincoln's speech when first elected president; would defend federal property in the South; not going to abolish slavery

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2nd Inaugural Address

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Lincoln's speech in 1865 when he was re-elected; said the war was about slavery and liberty

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Amendment 13

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Amendment that freed the slaves

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Amendment 14

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Amendment that gave the ex-slaves (freedmen) US citizenship

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Amendment 15

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Amendment that gave black men the right to vote

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Frederick Doughlass

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A former slave and abolitionist leader who urged President Lincoln to pass the Emancipation Proclamation

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Homestead Act

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What law gave people land if they would build a Home on it and farm it for 5 years?

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Freedmen's Bureau

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A federal agency created to assist newly freed African Americans with food, clothing, shelter, education, and locating family members

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share cropping

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A system where the landowner would provide seed and tools to a farm worker which left the farm worker in debt year after year

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Morrill Act

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Gave each state land to sell and use the money to start public colleges teaching agriculture and the mechanical arts

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Black Codes

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Laws passed in the South immediately after the Civil War that angered people in the North

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Congressional Plan

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Plan for reconstruction that divided the South into 5 military districts

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Ku Klux Klan

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Group formed to stop African Americans from having equal rights

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Hiram Rhodes Revels

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First African American elected to serve as a member of congress

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US vs Cruikshank

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Supreme court decision that rules that only the States, not the federal government, could punish individuals who violated the civil rights of African Americans

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Dawes Act

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A law that pushed assimilation among Native Americans and almost destroyed their culture - gave about 100 million acres of tribal land to the whites

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Compromise of 1877

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Officially ended reconstruction and Democrats returned to power in the South - segregation became an acceptable way of life for the next 100 years

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Panic of 1873

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Banks closed and the stock market collapsed causing an economic depression - caused Americans to become less interested in reconstruction

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Radical Republicans

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Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens were the leader of the _______?

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William Carney

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First African American to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor

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Philip Bazaar

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First Hispanic American to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor