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23 Cards in this Set
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Free Soiler
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Someone who believed in the idea that congress should prohibit slavery in the western territories.
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Free Labor
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Work conducted free from constraint and in accordance with the laborers personal inclinations and will.
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Land Grant
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A gift of land from a government, usually intended to encourage settlement or development.
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Paternalism
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The idea that the masters of slaves were taking care of them almost as if they were the fathers of the slaves
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Yeoman
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A farmer who owned a small plot of land that wwas sufficient to support a family and was tilled by family members and perhaps a few servants.
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Nativist
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Someone with a bias against immigrants and a favoritism for natives.American nativists particularly prefer white protestants.
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Secession
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Refers to the South leaving the country
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Emancipation
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Freeing of slaves
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Conscription
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Compulsory military service. Amercicans were first subject to conscription in the civil war
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Antebellum
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The time period before a war, most wideliy refered to about the time right before the civil war
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Peculiar Institution
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Slavery
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Draft
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A system for selecting individuals for compulsory military service.
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Confederacy
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The country formed by the South after seceding from the union
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The Dred Scott Decision (ID)
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A case in the 1850's in which Dredd Scott a slave sued for his freedom because he had lived in Wisconsin a free territory and Illinois a free state. He moved back to Missouris a slave state and sued for his freedom because he created his family tree in free areas. At first Dredd Scott was denied freedom in federal court because he's not a citizen and therefore can't have constitutional rights, and that the laws fo Missouri his home state determined his status.
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Bleeding Kansas
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In the 1850's the tension between abolitionists and slave owners got so fierce in Kansas it led to civil war when pro slavery men raided the town of lawrence.
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The Confederate Constitution (ID)
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The document that declared the South to have seceded from the North in the 1860's. This led to the civil war in which the North won and the Confederate Constitution was nullified
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The Emancipation Proclamation (ID)
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The Document that declared all of the slaves free in America in the 1860's after the end of the civil war.
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Gettysburg (ID)
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A town in Pennsylvania that hosted Lincoln's famous address to the Nation known as the Gettysbur address. As well as the address Gettysbur was the place in which the war's turning point took place. The battle of Gettysburg claimed 1/3 of General Lee's army.
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Appomattox (ID)
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The place in which Genral Lee surrenedered to the Union in 1865. This was important because it led to vicory for the Union.
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Abraham Lincoln (ID)
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The President of the United States when the Civil war happened. Lincoln, an abolitionist signed the emancipation proclamation and was assassinated in 1865 by John Wilkes Booth.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin (ID)
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A book written in the early 1850's by Harriet Beecher Stowe about how brutal slavery was. It was very importnat to showing people what really went on at these southern plantations.
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Fort Sumter (ID)
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The first battle in the Civil war was the battle at Fort Sumter in 1861. The South was victorious in this battle which was important because it showed the nation that it wasn't going to be such a landslide after all.
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Antietam (ID)
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General McClellan of the Union inercepted some intellegence from the Confederate army so he knew the South's location by Antietem Creek. The battle of Antietem although a missed opporitunity for the Union (who struck too late) was the bloodiest battle of the war. It took place in 1862.
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