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23 Cards in this Set
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Chickamauga |
Battle in Northern GA that forced the union army back to Chattanooga,Tennessee.
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Antietam |
Bloodiest one day of the war that occurred in Sharpsburg,Maryland. |
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Freedmen's Bureau |
Organization established after the Civil War to help freed slaves. |
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Tenant Farming |
A system of farming where the worker owned his tools and animals. |
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13th Amendment |
This amendment granted males the right to vote regardless of"race,color,or previous condition of servitude". |
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Emancipation Proclamation |
The announcement by Lincoln that made would make slaves in the Confederate States free. |
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Secession |
The act of pulling out the Union. |
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Ku Klux Klan or KKK |
Secret organization that terrorized African Americans. |
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Compromise of 1850 |
Admitting California as a free state and asked Congress to pass the Fugitive Slave State |
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Alexander Stephens |
State legislator who argued against secession |
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Kansas Nebraska Act |
This allowed new territories to decide on slavery through popular sovereignty and changed the Missouri Compromise |
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Missouri Compromise |
Admitted Maine as a free state |
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Dred Scott Case |
Supreme court ruled that this slave could not sue for freedom because he was not a citizen |
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Nullification |
The belief that a state could ignore a federal law |
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Sharecropping |
A system of farming when land owners provide land, tools, seed,etc,and the workers gave them a portion of the crop |
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GA Platform |
This was Georgia's support for the Compromise of 1850 |
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Reconstructions |
The period after the Civil War when the South was rebuilt |
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Gettysburg |
The bloodiest battle of the Civil war with 51,00 casualties and was the turning point in the war. |
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States' Rights |
The belief that states' interest should take priority over the federal government's interest. |
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Andersonville |
one of the Confederate prisons for the union |
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Henry McNeal Turner |
An African American that was voted into the legislature on the grounds that the Constitutions gave them the right to hold political office |
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13th Amendment |
An Amendment to the U.S Constitution ,ratified in 1865 that made slavery illegal |
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14th Amendment |
This amendment granted males the right to vote regardless of race, color, or survitude |
