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17 Cards in this Set
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Sectionalism |
Who: Loyalty to ones own region or section or country rather than country as a whole. In the civil war North Vs South What: separated the north union vs the south confederates Significance: separated the country in two sides |
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Abolitionist |
Who:A person who favors the abolition of a practice or institution. Like slavery What: people who are against slavery Significance: Contributed to the Northern states to fight against the confederates to end slavery |
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Federick Douglas |
Who: A former slave and abolitionist against slavery What: He became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York Significance: He contributed to the start of the Civil War |
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Missouri Compromise |
Who: The United States Federal legislation that admitted Maine to the United States as a free state simultaneously with Missouri as a slave state What: Allowed Missouri to enter the union as a slave state and maine as a free state Significance: keeping the blanance of slave and free states equal in congress |
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Compromise of 1850 |
Who: was made up of 5 bills that attempted to resolve disputes over slavery in new territory added to to the united States in the wake of the Mexican American War Significance: California was a free state and Utah and New Mexico cod decide weather to be free or not, and made it easier for slave owners to recover runaway slaves on the fugitive slave act of 1850 |
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Fugitive slave Act of 1850 |
Who: A federal law passed as part of the 1850 compromise What: The return of escaped slaves to their owner regardless of where thy where captured this law prevented runaway slaves from settling into legally free states Significance: forcing them to flee into Canada and other British colonies |
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Kansas Nebraska Act |
Who: was an 1854 bill that mandated "popular sovereignty" allowing settlers to decide weather slavery be allowed withing a new states boarders What: overturned the the Missouri compromise use of latitude as a boundary between free and slave territory Significance: the conflicts that arose from the act between pro-slave and anti-slave settlers lead to the violence and paved the way for the civil war |
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Dred Scott decision |
Who: was the Supreme Court's ruling on March 6, 1857 that have lived in a free state and territory did not entitle Dred scott his freedom What: The decision argued that as someone's property, scott was not a citizen and could not sue in a federal Court Significance: This case stated that Aferican-Amercans, enslaved or free were not american citizens |
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John Browns raid |
Who: an effort by John Brown to initiate a slave revolt in the southern states by taking over a united States Arsenal at Harpers ferry, Virginia What: This pushed the North and southern states even more apart Significance: Helped start the Civil War |
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Abraham Lincoln |
Who: He was an American Statesmen and lawyer who served as the 16th president What: he succeeded in preserving the union, abolishing slavery, bolstering the federal government and modernizing the US economy |
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Secession |
What: The withdrawal of 11 slave states from the union during 1860-61following the election of Abraham Lincoln Significance: lead to the civil war |
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Jefferson Davis |
Who: served as the president of the confederate states during the civil war |
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Fort Sumter |
The bombardment of Fort Sumter in South Carolina and the surrender of the United States army. Significance: started the civil war |
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Emancipation Proclamation |
President Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary emancipation proclamation which declared that all enslaved people in states currently engaged in rebellion against the union will be forever free Significance: This would redefine the civil war to focus on ending slavery |
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Gettysburg Battle |
This was a battle between the union and confederates in pensalvania The battle had the largest amount of casualties Significance: This was the turning point of the war because the confederates lost alot of troops and comandos so... They turned to negotiations with the union |
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Vicksburg |
What: The union found a position to take over the Mississippi River Significance: This allowed them to cut the confederacy in half and allowed the union to cut of supplies/ resources to the confederate states |
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Appomattox |
What: was the last battle in the civil war when the confederates surrendered to the union |
