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9 Cards in this Set
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Anaconda plan |
Union tried to go through the ports and strangle their supply line. |
What does a anaconda do to its pray ? |
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Compromise of 1850 |
-Cali. Admitted as a free state, -Slave sale banned in D.C -Fugitive Slave act of 1850 enacted -popular sovereignty to Mexican Cession |
What became a free state ? What was banned ? What act was enacted ? What was applied to the Mexican Cession ? |
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Dred Scott decision |
He was a slave in Missouri who went to court to ask for his freedom. He said he was free because his owner lived in a free state for 4 years. Two state courts made 2 opposing decisions, saying he had no rights in court BC he was a slave so Scott went to the Supreme Court in 1857 |
A slave man who fought for something . |
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Emancipation proclamation |
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states " shall be free." |
A right that slaves should have in the rebellious states |
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Battle of Gettysburg |
Turning point of the War that made it clear the North would win. The South lost its chance to invade the North. |
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Gettysburg address |
one of the greatest speeches in American history |
Delivered 4mths after the battle of Gettysburg |
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Kansas-Nebraska act |
Sen. Douglas wanted to divide the territory into the Nebraska Territory and the Kansas Territory; to gain support of the South, he decided slavery could be decided by popular sovereignty |
New lands for settlement |
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States rights |
Rights and powers held by individual US states rather than by the federal government. |
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Slavery |
Slavery in America began when the first African slaves were brought to the North American colony of Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619, to aid in the production of crops |
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