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30 Cards in this Set
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to win or attach
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annex
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the laws that restricted the freedmens rights
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Black Codes
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A Northern Republican who moved to the postwar South
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Carpetbagger
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The rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality
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Civil rights
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A set of laws passed in the midst of fierce wrangling between groups favoring slavery and groups opposing it, that attempted to give something to both sides
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Compromise of 1850
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The Association of seven seeding Southern states, formed in 1861
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Confederate States of America
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captured items that became the property of the enemy government
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Contraband
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A group that raised their heads in protest against the war
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Copperheads
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The government has the right to call men age 18 and older to military action in a time of need. It was not optional
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Draft
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The proclamation issued by LIncoln freeing the slaves in those territiories still in rebellion against the Union
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Emancipation Proclamation
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Prohibited the restriction of voting rights on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude
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Fifteenth ammendment
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bombardment by the Confederates of this opened the Civil War
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Fort Sumter
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defined national citizenship and forbidding the states to restrict the basic rights of citizens or other persons
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Fourteenth ammendment
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ordered all citizens of the United States to assist in the return of enslaved people who had escaped from their owners
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Fugitive Slave Act
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An area in extreme Southern New Mexico and Arizona South of the Gila River. It was purchased by the U.S. from Mexico in 1853 to ensure territorial rights for a practiceable Southern railroad route to the pacific coast
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Gadsen Purchase
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a U.S. legal-tender note, printed in green on the back since the civil war, origionally issued against the Credit of the country and not against gold or silver on deposit
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greenbacks
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A member of a band of irregular soldiers that uses warfare, harrassing the enemy by surprise raids, sabatoging communication and supply lines
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Guerrillas
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to charge a president with wrongdoing while he is in office
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impeach
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the public propriety and services that a society uses
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Infrastructure
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made up of Texas, Louissiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina
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Lower South
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the belief that it was the goal/future of the U.S. to expand its territory over the whole of North America and to extend and enhance its political, social, and economic influences
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Manifest Destiny
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an emergency rule by military authorities during which some Bill of Rights guarantees are suspended
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Martial law
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a movement to ensure that native-born Americans recieved better treatment than immigrants
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Nativism
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an official forgiveness of a crime
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Pardon
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a doctrine, held chiefly by the opponents of the abolitionists that the people living in a territirory should be free of federal interference in determining domestic policy, especially with respect to slavery
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popular soveriegnty
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white Southern Republican
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Scalawag
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a farmer in the New South
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sharecropper
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ended slavery in the U.S. forever
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Thirteenth Ammendment
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one side inflicts continuous losses on the enemy in order to wear down its strength
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War of Attrition
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legal protection requiring that a court determine if a person is lawfully imprisioned
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Writ of habeus corpus
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