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48 Cards in this Set
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Wilmot Proviso |
Proposed during the Mexican War. No slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist. |
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Compromise of 1850 |
California comes in as a free state. New Mexico and Utah use popular sovereignty. End slave trade in District of Columbia. Fugitive Slave Act. |
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Underground Railroad |
System of escape routes for fugitive slaves |
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Harriet Tubman |
Was one of the Conductors of the Underground railroad |
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Uncle Toms Cabin |
Harriet Beecher Stove Author of this book to finish slavery |
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Kansas-Nebraska Act |
In 1854 proposed by Illinois senator Stephen Douglas. Divided the Nebraska territory into two sections |
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Popular Sovereignty |
People are the absolute highest authority would decide slavery |
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Bleeding Kansas |
1855 violence breaks out because of legal voting in KS for slavery |
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John Brown |
Antislavery advocate slavery revenge and kills 5 men |
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Republican Party established |
In 1854 platfrom keep slavery from spreading into new territories. |
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Dred Scott |
was a slave who went into a free state with his master so he thought he was free but supreme court ruled it as case closed. Not free. |
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Lincoln Douglas Debate |
Competing for senate seat. |
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Harpers Ferry |
John Brown is executed for an antislavery riot |
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Election of 1860 |
Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas run for office. Lincoln wins. |
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Secede |
To withdraw from the Union. |
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Jefferson Davus |
President of the Confederate States |
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Fort Sumter |
Fort on island of Charleston Harbor |
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Battle of Bull Run |
July 1861, Va Confederates wins |
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Ulysses S. Grant |
Union general, later commander of the union army. Later becomes a president |
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Battle of Shiloh |
April 1862, TN union |
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David Farragut |
Commanding a Union fleet. able to gain control of New Orleans and Lover Miss River valley |
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Robert E Lee |
Lead of Confederate army |
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Battle of Antietam |
Sept 1862 Maryland. Union wins. Bloodiest single battle in American History |
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Emancipation Proclamation |
On jan 1, 1863 Lincoln annouces slave in rebelling states are free. |
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Conscription |
Draft to get more men in the army |
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Income Tax |
a tax that takes a certain amount of money from an individuals and goes to government to pay for war |
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Dorthea Dix |
First Nurse superintendent |
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Clara Burton |
Started the Red Cross |
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Sally and Belle Boyd |
Confederate nurses that helped during the war |
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Stonewall Jackson |
Commander of Confederates but dies at the hands of one of his own men |
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Battle of Gettysburg |
Turning point in the war. Unions win |
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Election 1864 |
Lincoln is re-elected |
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15th Amendment |
Freed slaves |
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April 14, 1865 |
Lincoln is assassinated |
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Reconstruction |
The build up after the war |
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Lincolns Plan |
10% of confederates have to swear loyalty to get back into the country |
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Congress plan |
51% of the confederates have to swear loyalty |
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Johnson Plan |
Similar to Lincolns. |
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13th Amendment |
Abolish slavery |
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14th amendment |
citizenship for all blacks and whites |
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Scalawags |
White southerns who joined Republican Party |
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Carpet Bagger |
Northern who moved south after the war |
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Black Codes |
Laws against Blacks |
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Amnesty Act |
Returned the right to vote to former confederates |
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Attomax |
The courthouse that confederates gave up |
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Freedmen's Bureau |
Helped blacks get on their feet |
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Election of 1876 |
Hayes win election thru compromise |
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Compromise of 1877 |
Hayes becomes pres federal troops removed from southern states Reconstruction over |