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53 Cards in this Set
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What was the first constitution of the United States?
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the Articles of Confederation
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Under the Articles of Confederation, what did Congress not have the power to do?
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tax, leaving the government without mone for the military or other govermental responsibilites
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What established the bicameral congress?
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the Great Compromise
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What are the bicameral houses in U.S. Congress? Describe them.
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Senate with 2 members from each state and the House of Representatives with the state's representatives dependant on the state's population
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What is difference between federalist and antifederalist?
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federalist were in favor of a new Constitution, antifederalists were not
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What number state was South Carolina to ratify the constitution?
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eighth
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Who was a leading federalist that wrote proposals for the U.S. Constitutional Convention?
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Charles Pinckney
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Who provided lawyers for the black citizens of Clarendon County, SC, to challenge the concept of seperate but equal school facilities?
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NAACP
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Who was the black student at the Scotts Branck School in Clarendon County, SC, that had to waslk 5 miles to and from school when black kids were not provided with buses?
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Harry Briggs, Jr.
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Who was the NAACP lawyer that represented the Clarendon County case before the Supreme Court and became the first black Supreme Court Justice?
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Thurgood Marshall
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What laws required seperated facilities for blacks and whites?
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Jim Crow laws
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What requierd that races share the same facilities?
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integration, desegregation
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What document, issued in 1823, warned European nations not to interfere with independent nations in North and South America?
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the Monroe Doctrine
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What was built in South Carolina to help bring crops more easily to Charleston for trade?
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the Santee-Cooper Canal
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What taxed imports encouraging citizens to buy locally made products?
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protective tariffs
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What SC man was a strong supporter of nullification and believed that states should be allowed to permit slavery?
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John C. Calhoun
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What does the doctrine of nullification say?
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that a state has the right to refuse to obey or enforce a federal law if the state believes that the law is unconstitutional and violates the state's rights
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Who invented the cotton gin?
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Eli Whitney
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Why did the use of slaves increase?
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slaves provided the cheap labor that was needed to cultivate and prepare the cotton for market
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What SC man was considered to be a champion of the common man?
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Andrew Jackson
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What was the first train in SC?
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the Best Friend of Charleston (it ran 136 miles from Charleston to Hamburg)
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What were the northern and southern economies based on?
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the northern was based on industrialization and the south was based on agriculture
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What did the men called fire-eaters strongly favor?
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the seccession of South Carolina
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What did the Dred Scott Supreme Court decision rule?
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it ruled that slavers were considered property and owners could take their property to any state or territory
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What was the concept of popular soveriengnty?
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that states were allowed to vote to enter the Union as a slave or free state
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What year was Abraham Lincoln elected President of the US?
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1860
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What happened in SC with Lincoln's election?
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SC's fire-eaters led SC to be the first state to secede from the Union when they adopted the Ordinance of Secession
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What did the seceded states form?
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the Confederate States of America
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Who was chosen as President of the Confederacy?
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Jefferson Davis
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What was the capital of the Confederacy?
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Richmond, Virginia
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Why is Mary Boykin Chesnut of Charleston,SC, famous?
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she wrote the well-known diary of the Civil War. it provided insight into the beliefs of southerners at the time of secession and the Civil War
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Describe the first shots of the Civil War.
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they were fired by the Confederacy at the Union troops in Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor.
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What did the Confederacy believe about the Civil War?
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they believed the war would be quick. they weren't prepared for a long war because they had a lesser population and fewer factories to produce needed supplies
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What was the Union plan?
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they had a plan called the Anaconda plan because the leaders hoped to squeeze the Confederacy like a anaconda does its prey
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What did the Union hope to do concerning Confederate ports?
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they hoped to blockade all ports, not allowing cotton to be sold or war supplies to be delivered from other countries
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What did the Union hope to do concerning the Mississippi River?
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they hoped to control the Mississippi and cut the Confederacy in two
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How did the Confederacy counter the Union blockade?
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they used raiders to capture Union merchant ships for their cargo and to try to draw the Union Navy away from the blockade
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What was the Cotton Diplomacy?
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the Confederacy believed that the British and French would need their cotton enought to break the Union blockade. this strategy failed because the Europeans hated slavery and chose to buy cotton from Egypt and India instead
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What was the Calvary?
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soldiers mounted on horses, primary job was reconnaissance.
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What does reconnaissance mean?
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scouting enemy positions
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What were the artillery?
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big, slow moving guns that fired solid cannonballs and explosive shells
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What was the backbone of the army?
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the infantry or foot soldiers
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Did more soldiers die from artillery fire or muskets and rifles?
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artillery fire
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What was the first major battle of the Civil War?
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the Battle of Bull Run (Manassas). both sides realized it wouldn't be a quick and easy war
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How did General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson earn his nickname?
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he told his troops firm like a stone wall when the enemy was advancing
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What was the importance of the Union capturing Fort Royal?
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it gave them a base from which to launch attacks
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What did Robert Smalls do?
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he was a slave harbor pilot and guided the ship "The Planter" loaded with his black crew and their families out of the harbor to the Union navy and for the rest of the war he sailed for the Union
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How long was Charleston led under seige by Union forces?
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for more than a year until the Union forces occupied the city
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What is total war and who practiced it?
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destroying everything military or civilian in order to break the enemy's spirit, General William Tecumseh Sherman
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What did Sherman's troops use while marching through SC?
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total war
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Who were the Massachusetts 54th?
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the first black regiment to engage in battle during the Civil War
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Who was commander of the Massachusetts 54th?
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Colonel Robert Shaw
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What is the Massachusetts 54th remembered for?
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fighting valiantly to capture Fort Wagner on Morris Island in Charleston Harbor but the for was never captured
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