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28 Cards in this Set
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agricultural society
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society focused on farming
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battlefield
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a place where armies engage war
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Battle of Gettysburg
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major Northern victory that turned the tide of the of the Civil War
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Battle of Vicksburg
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North gained control of the Mississippi River which led to division of the South
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blockade
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blocking of a place by military forces especially by ships to control who or what goes in or out
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border states
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five slave states that remanied in the union
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civil war
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a war beetween regions of the same country
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compromise of 1805
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allowed california to enter union as a free state and gave southwest territory the right to decide about slavery.
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discrimination
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unfair treatment based on race or sex rater then merit
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dred scout decision
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supreme court that declared slaves as property
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Emancipation proclamation
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the announcement issued by Lincoln in 1863 whitch said that all slaves in the confederate states were free
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dred scout decision
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supreme court that declared slaves as property
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enlist
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to join
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First Battle of Manassas
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first major battle of the cival war; also known as the battle of bull run
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Gettysburg Address
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Lincoln`s address that stated the Civil War was to preserve a government of, by, and for the people
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homefront
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during war, places where battles did not take place
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John Brown`s Raid
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a protest against slavery at Harpers Ferry
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Kansas-nebraska Act
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the slavery issue was decided by the will of people
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labor intensive cash crops
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farm crops which require many workers to produce , such as tabbaco
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Missouri Compromise
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to maintain the balance of power in the Senate,Missouri became a slave stateand Maine became a free state .
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popular sovereignty
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a pre-Civil policy that allowed voters in a newly organized territory to decide whether or not to have slavery
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seceded
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to have withdrawn formally from a organizationor nation
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sectional tension
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disagreements between two areas of a country
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segregation
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the separation of people,usually blacks and whites
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tariff
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a tax placed on goods imported into a country
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topography
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detailed description of a place or region;lay of land
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union
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the United States of America regarded as a nation, especially during the Civil War
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urban society
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relating to a city, the communities surrounding it, and the commercial production and sale of goods by people in that society
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