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12 Cards in this Set
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Blockade
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The closing of an area to keep people and supplies from going in or out.
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Abolitionist
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A person who wants to end or abolish slavery
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Reconstruction
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A time in American history after the Civil War when laws were passed to rebuild the nation and bring the south's states back to the Union.
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Underground Railroad
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The network of people and places that helped enslaved African-Americans to escape to freedom in the North.
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Impeach
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To change a public official with wrongdoing while in office.
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Compromise of 1850
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Laws passed by congress providing that CA would enter the Union as a free state, and that the people would decide wheather or not they wanted slavery.
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Total War
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An all-out war against an entire people to destroy their ability and will to fight.
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Missouri Compromise
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A law passed by congress in 1820 that created an imaginary line between territories in the west where slavery would be allowed and in territories where it wouldn't be allowed.
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Secession
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Breaking away from the Union.
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Sharecropping
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A system where a farmer rents land by paying a shore of the crop raised on land.
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Segregaton
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The seperation of people, usually blacks and whites.
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Blockade
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The closing of an area to keep people and supplies from going in or out.
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