A new birth of freedom - the Civil War + its aftermath Flashcards

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Slavery + the causes of the Civil War

what made the North richer than the South

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6x more factories

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Slavery + the causes of the Civil War

what was the south economy based on

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cotton and 4 million slaves

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Slavery + the causes of the Civil War

examples of people fighting against slavery in the north

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The Liberator + National anti-slavery society

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Slavery + the causes of the Civil War

how many members of the National Anti - slavery society in 1838

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250,000

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Slavery + the causes of the Civil War

who are the people called that were against slavery in the north

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abolitionists

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Slavery + the causes of the Civil War

who ran the ‘Underground Railroad’ + who were they

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Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglaass
- escaped slaves

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Slavery + the causes of the Civil War

when was the Clay Comprimise

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1850

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Slavery + the causes of the Civil War

what was the Clay Comprimise

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california was free

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Slavery + the causes of the Civil War

what was the Fugative Slave Act

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return of runaway slaves from the North

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Slavery + the causes of the Civil War

what did the 1854 Kansas - Nebraska act allow

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these states to choose thier position on slavery

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Slavery + the causes of the Civil War

what did Pres. Buchanan do

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helped save plantations in Kansas- Nebraska

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Slavery + the causes of the Civil War

what did the Dred Scott case mean

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blacks not US citizens

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Slavery + the causes of the Civil War

when was the Dred Scott case

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1857

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Slavery + the causes of the Civil War

when was the republican party set up

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1854

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Slavery + the causes of the Civil War

who was the republican party set up for

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factories and farmers who wanted land in the West

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Slavery + the causes of the Civil War

who lead the republican party

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Abraham Lincoln

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Decent into Civil War

when did Lincoln win presidency

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1860 election

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Decent into Civil War

what did Lincoln promise when he won the election

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free land to settlers in the West and to oppose expansion of slavery

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Decent into Civil War

who first voted to secede from the union

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South Carolina

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Decent into Civil War

fwhen did south carolina vote to secede from the union

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November 1860

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Decent into Civil War

who formed the Confederacy

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South Carolina + 6 other states

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Decent into Civil War

who did the Confederacy choose as president

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Jefferson Davis

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Decent into Civil War

what did the Confederacy do in April 1861

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attack Union - held Fort Sumter

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Decent into Civil War

who did the border slave states join

confederacy / union

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North to defend the Union

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# African American experience of the Civil War 1861-1865 = Limited War who were given labouring jobs + not allowed to fight
'contrabands' and free black volounteers
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# African American experience of the Civil War 1861-1865 = Limited War when were escaped slaves allowed to fight by union generals
1862
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# African American experience of the Civil War 1861-1865 = Limited War what was the new law in July 1862
any captured slave-holding land automatically free
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# African American experience of the Civil War 1861-1865 = Limited War in 1862 how many slaves freed on the Sea Islands
10,000
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# African American experience of the Civil War 1861-1865 = Limited War what were freed slaves on the Sea Islands made to do
set up own farms
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# African American experience of the Civil War 1861-1865 = Limited War where did Harriet Tubman become a nurse
Sea Islands
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# Total War 1863-5 what did Lincoln promise in Sept 1862
to free slaves unless Confederacy surrendered
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# Total War 1863-5 when did the first Black regiment form in the Union army
Autmn 1862
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# Total War 1863-5 what jobs were the first Black regiment in the Union army often given
heavy labour tasks
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# Total War 1863-5 when was the Emancipation Proclamation
1 Jan 1863
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# Total War 1863-5 what did the Emancipation Proclamation do
promised to free all slaves in the South
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# Total War 1863-5 what did Sherman do
freed many thousands on his March from Georgia to the Sea
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# Total War 1863-5 when was the Equal Pay Act
June 1864
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# Total War 1863-5 who was not included in the Equal Pay Act
black officers
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# Total War 1863-5 when was the New York riots
July 1863
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# Total War 1863-5 why was there riots in New York | why / reaction
Conscription Act forced all men 20-45 to join up Working class whites angry at being forced to fight for African Am
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# Reconstruction and betrayal 1865-7 Radical reconstruction (progress) when did congress pass the 13th Ammendment
January 1865
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# Reconstruction and betrayal 1865-7 Radical reconstruction (progress) what did the 13th ammendment do
freeing all slaves
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# Reconstruction and betrayal 1865-7 Radical reconstruction (progress) when was lincoln shot | not a date
less than a week after the Confederate surrender
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# Reconstruction and betrayal 1865-7 Radical reconstruction (progress) who alloweed the Confederate states to rejoin the Union
Andrew Johnson
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# Reconstruction and betrayal 1865-7 Radical reconstruction (progress) who was the Confederate left in the hands of after they rejoined
plantion owners who passed the Black Codes
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# Reconstruction and betrayal 1865-7 Radical reconstruction (progress) when did the Congress set up a new reconstruction plan
Feb 1866
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# Reconstruction and betrayal 1865-7 Radical reconstruction (progress) what was the new reconstruction plan in 1866
Freemans bureau permanent, Civil Rights bill, 14th Ammendment
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# Reconstruction and betrayal 1865-7 Radical reconstruction (progress) what was the 14th ammendment
citezenship regardless of colour
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# Reconstruction and betrayal 1865-7 Radical reconstruction (progress) describe the controll of Confedarate states
radicall
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# Reconstruction and betrayal 1865-7 Radical reconstruction (progress) 2 ways of radical controll in the Confederate states
army enforced black rights, 5 millitary districts
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# Reconstruction and betrayal 1865-7 Radical reconstruction (progress) when was the 15th ammendment
Feb 1870
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# Reconstruction and betrayal 1865-7 Radical reconstruction (progress) how many blacks in political posts by 1870
2000
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# Reconstruction loses its way when was the election of Ulysses Grant
1868
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# Reconstruction and betrayal 1865-7 Radical reconstruction (progress) what was the 15th ammendment
all citizens have the right to vote
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# Reconstruction loses its way what happened at the start of Ulysses Grant election
progress stalled-resistance to federal interference + northern 'carpetbaggers'
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# Reconstruction loses its way who lost majority in congress 1874
republicans
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# Reconstruction loses its way who intimidated voters in elections 1870s
power of KKK and White League
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# Reconstruction loses its way what where the govt other priorities
widening frontier + wars with NAs , economic difficulties so lack of funds, fear of interfering within states
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# Reconstruction loses its way how did the Supreme Court allow blacks to be treated unequally in 1873
segregation
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# Reconstruction loses its way when did the supreme corut say federal govt couldnt protect blacks
1875
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# Reconstruction loses its way hpow where the federal govt going to protect blacks in 1875
intervene within states
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# Reconstruction loses its way when were the last troops removed from the south
1877