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26 Cards in this Set
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Free-soil party
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a short lived political party in the United States active in the 1848 and 1852.
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Missouri Compromise 1820
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The compromise that set up the 36 30 line where it divided states of pro slavers and anti slavers.
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compromise of 1850
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It defused a four-year confromtation between the slave states of the South and the free states.
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Kansas Nebraska Act 1854
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created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and opened new lands that would help settlement in them.
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Henry Clay
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He was a 19th-century american planter, statesman and orator who represented Kentucky in both the Senate and the House of Reps.
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John Brown
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He was a radical aboliotionist in the USA who led the Pottawatornie Massacre which five men were killed.
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Daniel Webster
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He was a leading American statesman and senateor during the nation's Antebellum period.
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Robert E. Lee
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Was a career military officer who is best known for having commanded the Confederate
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Fort Sumter
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Where the first battle of the Civil War took place.
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Border State
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Those were slave states, which didn't declare their secession from the USA before April 1861.
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King Cotton
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A slogan used by southerners to support secession from the USA.
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Blockade
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An effort to cut off food, supplies, war material or communications from a particular area by force.
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Anaconda Plan
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That is the name widely applied to an outline strategy for subduing the seceding states in the American Civil War.
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Revolver
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A pistol, gun.
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Battle of Bull Run
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It was the first real major conflict of the Civil War. A Union army, consisting of 28,000 men, commanded by General McDowell, fought 33,000 Confederates under General Beauregard. The Union army, under pressure to crush the rebellion in the South, marched towards Richmond, but met the Confederate forces coming north from Manassas, a Southern base.
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Minie Ball
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a type of muzzle-loading spin-stabilising rifle bullet named after Claude Etienne Minie, the inventor.
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Ulysses S. Grant
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The 18th president of the U.S. and also was militart commander during the Civil War.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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A book published in 1852 by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It was about a slave and the hard times of his life.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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The author of the book "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
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Fugitive Slave Act
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This act was passed to declare that all runaway slaves be brought back to their masters.
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Dred Scott V. Sanford
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This was a case that was brought to court. Dred Scott had lived in the free state of Illinois and the free territory of Wisconsin and went to court to try to earn his freedom back.
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Harpers Ferry
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In 1859 John Brown led a party of 21 men in a successful attack on the federal armory at Harper's Ferry.
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Secede
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Secede means to leave or back out of. In the 1800's it was used to say if a state was seceding.
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Confederate States of America
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A government set up from 1861 to 1865 by 11 Southern slave states of the United States of America that had declared their secession from the U.S. (South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee).
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Jefferson Davis
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An American statesman and leader of the Confederacy during the American Civil War serving as President for its entire history.
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Cavalry
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soldiers who fought on horseback.
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