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33 Cards in this Set
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Fort Sumpter
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April 12 1861
Confederates take over Fort Sumpter and start Civil War |
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Shiloh
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April 1862
Union prevails although both sides suffer 10,000 casualties |
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Antietam
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Sept 1862
McClellan (union) vs. Lee (confeds) bloodiest single day in american hist. draw, but rebels lose more men |
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Emancipation Proclimation
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Jan 1863
allows black slaves freedom drives south to war against north |
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Gettysburg Day One
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July 1st 1863
Union holds high ground of Gettysburg Confeds hold low ground |
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Gettysburg Day Two
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July 2nd
Rebels come after union on high ground Union surprises Rebels and killed them off |
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Gettysburg Day 3 July 3rd
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Picket gave order to rebels to attack at Cemetery Hill,Union tore apart the Rebels
entire regiments dissapeared 1/3 lost |
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Sherman's March
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1864
Sherman marches 60,000 men to the sea to break Confederate resistance they destroy everything in their site and steal southerners goods |
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13th Amendment
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1865
Slaves are free |
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War Ends
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April 1865
Lee surenders fort sumpter abandoned |
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Assasination
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April 14th 1865, Good Friday
Fords theatre, Our American cousin John Wilkes Booth shoots Lincoln |
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Failure of National Constitutions
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churches divided
national parties split governmental forces were unstable |
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Historians quarrel
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contreversy rather than consensus characterizes debates
disagree about origions of slavery |
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James Ford Rhodes
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first scholarly historian
wrote "history of the U.S of 1850" 1918 slavery is immoral |
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Ulrich Bonnel Philips
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"American Negro Slavery"
1918 |
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Kenneth Stamp
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"The peculiar Institution"
1956 slavery cannot be generalized |
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Stanley Elkins
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"Slavery A problem in American institution and Life" 1959
links past with present |
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Computer Technology
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1960's and beyond
made large scale analysis of historical evidence possible |
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Civil Rights Movement
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challenges between social and economical relations between races
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Trends after 1960
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emphasis on slave culture and community
slavery as a system comparative studies |
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Eugene D. Genovese
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"Roll, Jordan, Roll"
Marxist interpretation emphasized centrality of religion to ante-bellum black life |
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economy of rebels
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Less diversified:
--Agricultute-80% --25% had slaves, 12% had 12+ slaves Cash crops |
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economy of Union
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Diversified:
--Agriculture- 40% --Industrial |
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population of union
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grew rapidly
lived in city |
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population of rebels
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grew rapidly
lived in country |
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reform of union
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temperance
public education abolition |
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Union beliefs
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believed south's resistance to change held them back
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Rebels beliefs
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Union is cold and loves to take money from them
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Territorial expansion
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north gains more seats in house
north apposes slavery expansion determined nat. political representation |
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Mexican American War
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fueled by sectional tension
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Compromise of 1850
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California is free state
ended slavery in WA Utah and New mexico established Fugitive slave laws |
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Kansas Nebraska Act
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deepens national divisions
slaves aren't citizens slaves are "property" north is alienated |
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1975
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chinese women and convicts barred from U.S
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