Usap Test 5

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Hiram R Revels

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the first Black Senator

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Crittenden Compromise

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Lincoln opposed it b/c it would allow slavery to spread to some of the territories

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George McClellan

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this Union general was heavily supported at the polls by Copperheads and Southern sympathizers in 1864

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Charles Sumner

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Senator from MA, formerly an abolitionist, then a Radical Republican in favor of racial equality

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Thaddeus Stevens

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the most powerful Congressional Radical Republican, wished to punish the South; Speaker of the House of Rep

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Harriet Tubman

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conductor of the Underground Railroad, led more than 300 slaves, including her parents, to freedom

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Stephen Douglas

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able senator who blundered badly when he sponsored the KS-NE bill

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William T. Sherman

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spread devastation on his army's march through GA / Lincoln's reelection in 1864 was in doubt until the fall of Atlanta to Gen. Sherman

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Sojourner Truth

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free black who spoke out eloquently against slavery in support of the abolition crusade

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Jefferson Davis

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prez of the Confederacy

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James Buchanan

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lame duck president who believed the Constitution did not give him the power to force the South back into the Union

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

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wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin

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Hinton R Helper

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Southerner who wrote *The Impending Crisis of the South*, which argued that nonslave-holding whites suffered most from slave labor

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Robert E Lee

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brilliant leader of the Army of Northern VA

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paternalism

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"fatherly" way of treating slaves like children to "protect them from mistreatment" they would receive if they were freed

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Jay Cooke

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private banking house that marketed the bonds of the federal govt during the war

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Abraham Lincoln

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said in 1862, "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, not save or destroy slavery."

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John Brown

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murdered 5 allegedly pro-slavery men at Pottawatomie Creek

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Ulysses S Grant

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Union general who demanded unconditional surrender at Ft Donelson

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Dred Scott

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slave who had traveled to free territory, Supreme Court declared him "property"

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William Lloyd Garrison

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most conspicuous and hated of the abolitionists; wrote the Liberator, favored immediate, uncompensated emancipation

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Andrew Johnson

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only prez to be impeached (until Clinton)

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Anaconda Policy

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overall strategic plan of the Union to defeat the Confederacy

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"Stonewall" Jackson

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Confederate general, master of speed and deception, shot at Chancellorsville and died shortly after

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Samuel Tilden

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NY attorney who prosecuted "Boss" Tweed; later nominated for Prez

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Carl Schurz

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unsuccessful German-American general

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Wilmot Proviso

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said that slavery should be prohibited in lands from Mexico

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Franklin Pierce

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this prez wanted overseas expansion, limiting Britain in Nicaragua, opening of Japanese trade and Cuba attempt

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Millard Fillmore

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became prez when the prez (Zachary Taylor) died, signed the Compromise of 1850

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Horace Greeley

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editor of the NY Tribune; nominated as Prez by the Liberal Republicans

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Nat Turner

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slave preacher; in 1831, led bank of blacks armed with guns and axes killing whites in Southampton County, VA; overpowered by fed. troops

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Compromise of 1850

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postponed and evaded the issue of whether slavery would be allowed West of the Mississippi in the territories since N. and S. could not agree on how "popular sovereignty" would work

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Frederick Douglass

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outspoken abolitionist and ex-slave, beaten and mobbed on numerous occasions in the N.

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popular sovereignty

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idea that people of territory should vote on slavery

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Lewis Cass

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invented the concept and term "pop. sovereignty" in the election 1848

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Stephen Douglas

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"The Little Giant" championed pop. sovereignty in 1850s

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fall of Atlanta

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Lincoln's reelection in 1864 was in doubt until the fall of 1864 when Sherman took Atlanta