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26 Cards in this Set
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The Missouri Compromise |
The Missouri Compromise was an agreement between North and South in 1820 that allowed Missouri to enter union as slave state and Maine as free state; 36º30’ line would divide future slave / free states. The Missouri Compromise kept the peace between the North and South for a while, but it never addressed new territories gained in the West. |
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Popular Sovereignty |
The slave issue decided in Utah Territory and New Mexico Territory was to leave it to popular sovereignty. (The majority rules.) This allowed territories to decide for themselves whether to allow slavery or not. |
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The compromise of 1850 |
The compromise of 1850 was an agreement between North and South that allowed California to enter union as Free State, passed fugitive slave law, allowed popular sovereignty in New Mexico &Utah, and banned slave trade in Washington, D.C. |
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Emancipate |
Emancipate means to set free |
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Abraham Lincoln |
Abraham Lincoln, leader of the Republican Party won the presidency election in 1860 which lead to Southern secession. |
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John Wilkes Booth |
John Wilkes Booth shot president Abraham Lincoln to death. |
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Secede |
Secede means break away and start a new government |
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Dred Scott |
Dred Scott was a former slave that went to the Supreme Court. In 1857 Supreme Court decided that slaves were property and that slavery could not be forbidden in any territory (Missouri Compromise declared unconstitutional). |
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Fugitive Slave law |
Fugitive Slave law was a law that required all citizens, even in the North, to help catch runaway slaves. |
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The Poll tax |
The Poll tax was a tax that was required in order for a person to vote. |
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Gettysburg Address |
Lincoln addressed (spoke) to the nation after the Battle of Gettysburg. Lincoln’s speech is still famous. It is called Gettysburg Address |
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Battle of Gettysburg |
The Battle of Gettysburg was the single bloodiest day in American history. |
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The Kansas Nebraska Act (law) |
The Kansas Nebraska Act (law) stating that popular sovereignty would decide the question of slavery in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska. |
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Bleeding Kansas |
Bleeding Kansas was name given to Kansas territory because of the violence that erupted over slavery there |
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin |
Uncle Tom’s Cabin is a novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that showed the cruelty of slavery. |
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Harriet Beecher Stowe |
Wrote novel titled Uncle Tom’s Cabin that showed the cruelty of slavery. |
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Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation |
Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation
Freed slaves in the Confederacy, but allowed border states to keep theirs. This is not the 13th amendment!!!!! |
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Ku Klux Klan |
Ku Klux Klan was and is still a Secret organization started by white Southerners after the Civil War to prevent former slaves from exercising their new rights |
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Jefferson Davis |
Jefferson Davis became President of Confederate States of America |
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John Brown |
John Brown was an abolitionist who fought against slavery in Kansas and led a raid on Harper’s Ferry, Virginia . |
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The Battle of Bull Run |
The Battle of Bull Run was a victory for the south. |
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13th amendment |
13th amendment gave slaves freedom (abolish slavery) |
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14th amendment |
14th amendment made former black slaves American citizens
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15th amendment |
15th amendment gave right to black men to vote.
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The Freedman’s Bureau |
Congress created the Freedman’s Bureau to help former slaves get jobs and housing. |
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Antietam |
Antietam was the bloodiest day. |
