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compromise of 1850 |
1. California admitted as free state 2. Territories of New Mex and Utah created with popular sovereignty 3. Slave TRADE abolished in DC 4. Fugitive Slave act created 5. Boundaries between Texas & Mexico are settled. |
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Utah & New Mex named free or slave state? |
Utah free, NM slave state |
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Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin |
Harriet Beacher Stowe |
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what was the novel of Uncle Tom's Cabin about |
She based the novel on a slave named Uncle Tom & his family. Toms master considered a nice man but his master had to sell Tom's son. Then sells Tom, Tom's new owner wants him to be a driver. Tom says no. Tom is beaten to death. |
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many believe that the novel.... |
started the civil war because the rise in slavery awareness in the north. Which added to the abolitionist movement. |
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The republican party was in rule of? |
ANTISLAVERY |
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what was gadsden Purchase |
part of land in mexico that was better fit for railroad, because it missed the mountains. Bought for 10 mil $$$ |
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What was wilmot proviso? |
David Wilmot. would've outlawed slavery in the territories earned by the US as the result of the Mexican war. passes in the House but failed in the Senate where equal state representation gave the south a stronger position. |
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what ended the mexican war. |
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo |
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free-soil party= know nothings= |
anti slavery anti immigrant, claimed loss of job security, urban crowding and violence, and political corruption |
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what repealed the Missouri Compromise |
the Kansas Nebraska Act |
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The Kansas Nebraska Act? Designed by? |
Stephen Douglas, In need of StateHood in the territories for railroad placement. The states of Nebraska and Kansas form. Douglas proposes popular sovereignty in discussion of slavery. Divided the states more lead to bleeding kansas |
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outcome of Kansas Nebraska Act |
Nebraska named free state. (known) Kansas required people to register in Kansas and be there for 30 days enable to vote. people pour in from north and south. ends Missouri compromise |
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"bleeding kansas" incident "Pottawatomie Creek Massacre" |
John brown, an anti activist, murders 5 pro slavery men living along the pottawatomie river. Started a series of episodes where more than two hundred men were killed. |
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bleeding kansas incident incident in congress? |
Massey senator Sumner discriminates SC senator Butler. Butlers nephew Preston Brooks beats Sumner with a cane. Reelected by his district and openly praised for his actions. |
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Dred Scott |
Owner dies in free state. Making him free man. Many courts agree until it gets to supreme court. Chief Justice Roger Taney states " slaves are not people but property" so no black people can sew in federal courts. |
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table comparison of Union V Confederacy |
22 mil, 22 states | 9 mill, 11 states Manufacturing=90% | 10% Strategy= offensive | Defensive Morale: some for some| Most in favor of war against. | prep:untrained, no mil | experience w/ guns, tradition |mil tradition/academy
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con. table |
mil leader:inexperienced |experienced. (U.S Grant & wt Sherman)|(R. Lee &Stonewall J) Navy:advantage |few ships political lead: Lincoln |Jefferson Davis = aggressive, mil astute | = too cautious foreign relation: legit gov |-trade but not around the world |recognized as country |from foreign powers |
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copperheads? Scalawags? Carpetbaggers? |
- northerners sympathetic to south - southerners sympathetic to north - northerners that went to south after war to make financial gain |
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why was civil war considered 1st modern war? |
first war where widespread use of mechanized and electrified devices like railroad trains, aerial observation, telegraph, photography, torpedoes, mines, ironclad ships and rifles occurred.
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wh was the only person to be charged with war crime and killed? |
Henry Wirz, guy who ran the POW camp in Andersonville, GA |
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what was the plan of the union during the civil war? "squeeze the life out of the south" |
anaconda plan, get control over miss river and control boarders with navy and keep marching south |
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first battle (start of) of civil war? |
fort sumter, confederacy demands removal of union troops. Lincoln sends food & supplies on boat. confederates fire artillery in 34 hr battle & union surrendered. |
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Battle of bull run (Manasses, VA) |
Mcdowell (union) maintained the offensive most of the day until Stonewall J came with reinforcements. After cannon fire, union retreats with northern spectators. |
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battle of Antietam, Maryland. (one of few times confederacy goes outside boarders) |
bloodiest single day of battle. (blood ankle deep) first north victory. |
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who made emancipation proclamation and what was it. |
Ab Lincoln. Free slaves in rebelling states. (incentive for slaves to rebel against south) . but didnt free slaves in boarder states because he didn't want them to sway towards confederacy. - also enables blacks to enlist. |
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battle of gettysburg, PA and address? |
General lee attempt town in north. "to give south uplifting and bring down north" Lee had papers in hand just in case they won battle and marched down to dc.TURNING POINT IN WAR. ADDRESS:battleground will be burial ground of union soldiers that died here |
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who won vicksburg and what was its significance? |
U S Grant. Allows for union to have possession of miss river. |
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after reelection, what did Lincoln's choice of VP say to the south? |
Andrew Johnson, was a southern democrat, shows the south an olive branch |
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battle of ATL. |
souths last straw. north victory. |
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"shermans march to the sea" |
after win in ATL. Sherman marches his army towards savannah GA destroying everything that wasn't of use to union but of use to south. TOTAL WAR. sherman then heads to cut off railroad in "goldsboro" |
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where do grant & lee meet for lee's surrender? |
Appomattox Courthouse, VA |
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Lincoln Death? |
killed by John Booth, an actor and southern sympathizer, entered the presidential box and shot him, lincoln died the next morning. |
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african americans in war |
after emancipation proclamation, union begins to enlist slaves. |
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women in war. francis clayton? clara barton? |
nurses, spies, soldiers women who dressed as male to fight in war. "angel of the battlefield" nurse |
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walt whitmen |
invented a whole new poetic form. brother in war got wounded, became a person that talked to young wounded, writes with compassion for these warriors and writes poem about cost of warfare. |
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stephen douglas |
compromise of 1850 Kansas Nebraska act lost to AB Lincoln presidency popular sovereignty transcendental railroad freeport doctrine- statement made during debates that popular sovernity should be used. |
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election of 1860 |
Ab Lincoln(rep), Stephen Douglas(dem), John Breckinridge(southern dem), John Bell(constitutional union). Wins electoral vote and 40% popular vote, AB. |
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where was confederate capitol moved to? |
richmond va |
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where did stonewall die? |
battle of chancellor |
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harpers ferry VA? |
john brown gets slave rebellion to attack arsenal at harpers ferry in an attempt to seize weapons. federal troops lead by robert lee arrive and arrest Brown. He's tried and convicted of TREASON, and hanged. |
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why did some northerners oppense end of slavery |
they made money off cotton |
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monitor vs merrimack |
two ironclad ships battle off merrimack sinks |
