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37 Cards in this Set
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conscription
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the drafting of men to serve in the army
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carpetbagger
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Northerners who moved south after the war. Southerners claimed that they came with all of their possessions in a bag made of carpet material.
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Political platform
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a statement of the principles and policies of political party supports.
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nullify
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declare invalid
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secession
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the act of pulling out of the union.
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blockade
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to obstruct or block acess to something
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tenant farming
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a system of farming where farmers rented their land from the landowner, and were allowed to grow what ever crop the prefered.
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provisional
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temporary
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antebellum
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the time period between the revolutionary and civil wars.
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freedmen
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former slaves
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suffrage
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voting rights
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abolitionists
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people who wanted to do away with slavery
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disfranchised
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have your voting rights taken away
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sectionalism
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the belief by the people in a given region or area that their ideas and interests are better and more important than those of another region or area.
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discrimination
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unfair treatment of a person or group because of prejudice
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reconstruction
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a plan to rebuild the south and restore the southern states to the union as quickly and easily as possible
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states' rights
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the belief that the states interests should take precedence over the interests of the national government
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share cropping
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A system in which land owners give land, seed, and tools in return for part of the crops they raise
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impeach
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bring charges against a public official while that person is still in office.
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scalawag
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a term used to describe southerners who supported the republicans
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slavery
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system where people are treated as property
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Dred Scott decision
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US Supreme Court decision declaring that African Americans were not U.S. citizens
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Underground Railroad
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a network of people who helped slaves escape to the North
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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antislavery novel written by Harriott Beecher Stowe that showed Northerners the violent reality of slavery
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Impending Crisis of the South
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a novel by Hinton Helper that stated that slavery was a crutch and the South would be crippled until it ended slavery.
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3/5’s Compromise
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agreement stating that three of five slave will be counted as part of the states’ population for representation in Congress
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emancipation
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legally freeing slaves by a master
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Antebellum
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the time period before the Civil War
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NC Manumission Society-organization
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formed by Quakers to buy slaves and set them free
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sectionalism
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excessive concern for local interests and customs
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Missouri Compromise
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allowed slavery south of the 36’30’ parallel from the southern border of Missouri and forbade slavery north of that line
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Compromise of 1850
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agreement that allowed California to enter as a free state and reinforced the fugitive slave law
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
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law that allowed voters in the Kansas and Nebraska territories to choose whether to allow slavery.
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Bleeding Kansas
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nickname given to the civil war in the Kansas Territory over whether it should allow slavery
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Fugitive Slave Act
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law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves
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Republican Party
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a political party formed in 1854 mainly to oppose slavery
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intolerance
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unwillingness or refusal to tolerate or respect contrary opinions or beliefs, persons of different races or backgrounds, etc.
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