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Causes of the Civil War Flashcards

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Whig Party

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-Clay and Webster’s party
-members had moral objections to slavery

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Popular sovereignty

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states and territories would decide fro themeselves regarding slavery

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arsenal

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weapons are stored here

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secede

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to leave

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fugitive

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runaway slave/ runaway criminal

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Border Ruffians

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pro-slavery/ cross broders and cause negative things to happen

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Underground Railroad

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where slaves would secrectly leave to freedom

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Abolitionist

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a person who favors the abolition of a practice or institution, especially capital punishment or (formerly) slavery.

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Antebellum period

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1812-1861

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Kansas-Nebraska Act

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Dred Scott Decision

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Bleeding Kansas

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Publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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Missouri Compromise 1820

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Compromise of 1850

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Wilmot Proviso

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Raid on Harpers Ferry, VA, 1859

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Fugitive Slave law

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Confederate States of America

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Battle of Ft. Sumter

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Invention of Cotton Gin

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Stephan Douglas

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Illinois Senator behind Kansas- Nebraska Act and Compromise of 1850

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Dred Scott

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Slave who’s freedom was taken away in Supreme court case

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John Brown

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Radical Abolitionist

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

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wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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David Wilmot

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Congressman from PA who introduced Wilmot Proviso

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Fredrick Douglass

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Runaway slave and leader of Abolitionaist movement

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Harriet Tubman

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a conductor of the Underground Railroad

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Jefferson Davis

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-former senate of South Carolina
-leader of conferderate states of America

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Eli Whitney

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inventor of the cotton gin

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Abraham Lincoln

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16th president and leader of the Republican (GOP) party (in favor of Union)

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