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24 Cards in this Set
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Secession
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formal withdrawal of a state from the Union
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Popular Sovereignty
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system in which the residents vote to decide an issue
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Underground Railroad
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system of escape routes for slave to the North
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
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"Bleeding Kansas"
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Pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups flooded Kansas and viciously attacked each other
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Dred Scott
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Slave whose owner took him from the slave state of Missouri to the free territory Illinois, Wisconsin and back to MO
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Jefferson Davis
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President of Confederacy
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Fort Sumter
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Most important Southern Fort, located in Charleston harbor
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Battle of Bull Run
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1st bloodshed in Civil War
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Stonewall Jackson
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Confederate General Thomas J. Jackson
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Robert E. Lee
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Confederate General after Joseph E. Johnston was wounded
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Ulysses S. Grant
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brave and decisive Union General
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Battle of Antietam
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Bloodiest single day in US history w/casualties more than 26,000
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Emancipation Proclamation
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Executive order issue ordered by Lincoln on 1/1/1863, freeing all slaves in all regions behind Confederate lines
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Conscription
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draft that forced men to serve in army
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William Techumseh Sherman
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Commander of Military division of MS
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Appomatox Court House
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town near Appomatox, VA where Lee surrendered to Grant on 4/9/1865
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John Wilkes Booth
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Killed Abraham Lincoln
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Reconstruction
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period of rebuilding that followed the Civil War, during which the defeated Confederate states were admitted back to the Union
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14th Amendment
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makes a person born/naturalized/former slave a citizen of US and equally protected
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Scalawags
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white Southerners who joined the Republican party after the Civil War
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Carpetbaggers
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Northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War
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15th Amendment
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prohibits denial of voting right to people because of race/gender or because they were former slaves
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Sharecropping
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system in which landowners give farm workers land, seed and tools in return for a part if the crops they raise
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