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causes of civil war Flashcards

1
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who worked in mills and factories

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northerners

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2
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many immigrants went to the north from Ireland and Germany because of what

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the potato famine and failed revolution

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adults and _______ worked in _________ conditions because there were no what to protect them

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children

dangerous

laws

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4
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northerners began using machines in the cloth making industries and built textile mills along rivers for what

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waterpower to run their machines

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5
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what came around the year 1800 and began in the region of New England

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the industrial revolution

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6
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who invented the cotton gin in 1793 which removed seeds from cotton very quickly. and Alison invented interchangeable parts which made it easier to produce goods

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Eli Whitney

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an economic system that allows competition with little government interference another name for this is free enterprise

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capitalism

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8
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who invented the telegraph

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Samuel morse

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what was an issue that also divided the country? roads and what

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canals

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10
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who supported tariffs

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northerners

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he was from the southern region, believed states have the right to govern themselves, and opposed tariffs

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John c Calhoun

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he was from the northern region, favored tariffs because they protected American industries from foreign competition

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Daniel Webster

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he was from the western region and proposed the American system with tariffs, internal improvements, and a national bank

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Henry clay

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14
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who ruled that the national governments interests come first if there is a conflict between a state government and the national government

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Supreme Court

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trains and what were pulled by steam locomotives connected the Midwest to the east

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railroads

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what used electric signals to transmit messages

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telegraph

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17
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what was the southern law known as that controlled enslaved people

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slave codes

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18
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who were two former slaves who escaped and helped other slaves escape also

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Harriet Tubman and Fredrick Douglas

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what was a network of “safe houses” that helped slaves escape slavery

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the Underground Railroad

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20
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name some things about slave life

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they got whipped and beaten

children got two shirts per year

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who was the slave who escaped and became an abolitionist, wrote a book about his life as a slave and thanks to him many northerners learned the truth about slavery

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Fredrick douglas

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22
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who made slave revolt laws against slaves get even tougher

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nat turner

23
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what compromise was it that the happy balance of 11 free states and 11 slave states would be ruined if Missouri became a state there would be more slave states than free and the senators would be unbalanced

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the Missouri compromise

24
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define sectionalism

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loyalty to a region

25
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what compromise added a new state, Maine, as a free state to get the happy balance back

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the Missouri compromise

26
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what banned slavery in any lands that were squired by Mexico

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the Wilmer proviso

27
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define popular sovereignty

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to allow the people to have the power to make decisions in issues that effect them

28
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who won the Mexican-American war

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the U.S.

29
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what political party was against slavery and had the slogan “free soil, free speech, free labor, free man”

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the free- soil political party

30
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what compromise added California as a free state

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the compromise of 1850

31
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slaves running away or trying to run away

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fugitive slave

32
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what compromise banned slave trade in Washington, D.C.

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the compromise of 1850

33
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what novel was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852 that tells the story of the life of slaves on a plantation, and becoming the best-selling book of the 19th century. this book caused more northerners to become abolitionists

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uncle toms cabin

34
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what act made runaway slaves no longer safe in the north because everyone had to help catch the slaves

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the fugitive slave act

35
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what was the Louisiana territory now called

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Kansas- Nebraska act

36
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according to the Missouri compromise where were the Kansas- Nebraska acts closed to slavery

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north of the line

37
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who came up with the plan known as the Kansas- Nebraska act that repealed the Missouri compromise and lands that had been closed to slavery for 34 years were now open to the possibility

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Stephen Douglas

38
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in 1856 who was making separate governments that went against the real government

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anti-slavery groups

39
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who destroyed two newspaper offices and killed 5 supporters of slavery and was later hung after starting a revolt against southerners. and what was this later know as

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John brown

40
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the antis lavers Whigs, antis lavers democrats, and free spoilers came together to form what party

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the Republican Party

41
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who was the enslaved African American in Missouri who sued for his freedom because he lived in the north where slavery was not allowed

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Fred Scott

42
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who was the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in the dred Scott case

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roger b Taney

43
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who liked the dred Scott decision

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the south

44
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who’s position on slavery was that it should not spread into the west, was a republican, entered and won the presidential election of 1860 helped by the north

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Abraham Lincoln

45
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who’s position on slavery was that he liked popular sovereignty and won the democrat for senator in Illinois and entered in the presidential election of 1860

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Stephen Douglas

46
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what two candidates for Illinois senator had several national popular debates

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Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln

47
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who was the southern democrat who vowed to uphold slavery and was a candidate in the presidential election of 1860

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John c Breckinridge

48
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who was the candidate in the presidential election of 1860 who was part of the constitutional Union party and wanted to continue to compromise

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John bell

49
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name the six states that seceded after South Carolina did because they felt threatened of the presidential results

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Texas 
Louisiana 
Mississippi
Alabama
Florida
Georgia
50
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what country did the first states to secede form and who did they choose as president

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confederate states of America

Jefferson Davis

51
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what was the reason given for them seceding

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states rights

52
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the spark that started the U.S. civil war was when the confederates chose to open fire on what

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fort Sumter

53
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the attack on fort Sumter led to 4 more states seceding what were they

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Virginia
North Carolina
Tennessee
Arkansas

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