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18 Cards in this Set
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Before the Civil War there was a right of the people living in a new territory to decide by vote of their whether or not slavery would be permitted there
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Popular Sovereignty
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Worrying about ones country before worrying about themselves
Worrying about oneself before anyone or anything else everyone became worried about themselves not their country. |
Nationalism
Sectionalism Sectionalism replaced Nationalism |
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A person who supported ending of slavery in the US
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Abolitionists
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Law in which made it tougher on slaves that tried to escape
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Fugitive Slave Act
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A set of laws passed that if the states wanted to become free (no slavery)..... that stated could make that law
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Compromise of 1850
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Allowed citizens of that state to decide on slavery
This act happened in 1854 |
Kansas Nebraska Act
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A small war between proslavery and antislavery for control of Kansas
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Bleeding Kansas
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Where slavery is not aloud
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Free Soiler
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A belief that destiny was to expand the US territory
Moving west and making the US larger was a wish that came true. |
Manifest Destiny
Westward Expansion Manifest Destiny Caused Westward |
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An agreement in which let Missouri stay a slave state while Maine becomes a free slave state
This agreement happened in 1820 |
Missouri Compromise
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Short speech given by Abraham Lincoln to recognize the national cemetery of Gettysburg
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Gettysburg Address
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An announcement from Abraham Lincoln
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Emancipation Proclamation
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The time period after the American Civil War when the south became part of the north agian
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Reconstruction
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A federal agency... the task was to help the southern blacks transition from a society based on slavery into one allowing freedom
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Freedmen's Bureau
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This Movement lasted from 1880-1924
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The Progressive Movement
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Civil War Major Battles In Order
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Bull Run (1861) Virginia
Shiloh (April 1862) Tennessee Antietam (Sept. 1862) Maryland Fredericksburg (Dec. 1862) Virginia Gettysburg (July 1-3 1863) Pennsylvania Vicksburg (July 4, 1863) Mississippi Petersburg (June 1864) Virginia Sherman's March (Nov. 1864) Georgia |
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Who won the Civil War?
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The Union (Northern states) won the war. The Confederate (South) states returned to the Union(South)
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Where was the Civil War fought?
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The Civil War was fought in the United States. During the time of the war the US was considered the North American Continent.
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