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Causes of the Civil War Flashcards

1
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A social reformer who wanted to end slavery

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abolitionist

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2
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To withdraw membership from a group; to leave

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secede

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3
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Conflict between people from the same country

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civil war

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4
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Before the war

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antebellum

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Identifying with your section rather than the country as a whole; this divided the nation

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sectionalism

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An agreement

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compromise

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Rule by the people; Voting

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popular sovereignty

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8
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1820 agreement that attempted to maintain a balance between the number of slave states and free states. It admitted Missouri as a slave state, Maine as a free state, and established a dividing line between free and slave land.

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Missouri Compromise

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A multi-part agreement that was meant to please the North and South. The compromise included California being admitted to the Union as a free state, the slave trade banned in Washington D.C., the creation of a new fugitive slave law, and the use of popular sovereignty in the New Mexico and Utah Territories.

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Compromise of 1850

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Created the Kansas territory and the Nebraska territory. Popular sovereignty would be used to help determine the future of the territory as allowing slavery or not. In Kansas, this lead to “Bleeding Kansas.”

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Kansas-Nebraska Act

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Nickname for the violence that occurred in territorial Kansas involving proslavery and antislavery forces.

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“Bleeding Kansas”

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12
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Missouri proslavery guerillas

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Bushwhackers

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Kansas antislavery guerillas

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Jayhawkers

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Missourians that crossed into Kansas to illegally vote in the territorial elections

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“Border Ruffians”

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Samuel Jones, a proslavery man and sheriff of Douglas County, encouraged an attack on Lawrence after tensions had built between him and antislavery men.

A blockade was put around Lawrence.

Abolitionist KS leaders James Lane and Charles Robinson negotiated a treaty with proslavery forces to end the siege.

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Wakarusa War

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A government made up of the people elected by the Border Ruffians.

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Bogus Legislature

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17
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When homes and businesses were burned by Sheriff Jones and his men.

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Sacking of Lawrence

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Abolitionist John Brown killed 5 proslavery men

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Pottawattomie Creek Massacre

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Eleven free-staters were kidnapped and shot at by proslavery men. 5 ended up killed, 5 wounded, and 1 escaped.

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Marais des Cygnes Massacre

20
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The court case that determined slaves were property, not citizens. It also declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional.

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Dred Scott v. Sandford

21
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He led an attack on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry.

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John Brown

22
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Wrote “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” in order to show the evils of slavery.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

23
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He led the 400 person “Army of the North” to move to Kansas. He was one of the leaders of the Jayhawkers.
He became a Kansas Senator and Union General during the Civil War.

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James Lane

24
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The first southern state to secede from the Union.

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South Carolina (Dec. 1860)

25
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The action that is given credit as the start of the Civil War.

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The Confederate attack on Ft. Sumter

26
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After this Republican President’s election in 1860, Southern states began to secede from the Union.

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Abraham Lincoln

27
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North or South? - Proslavery

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South

28
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North or South? - Abolitionists

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North

29
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North or South? - Industrial

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North

30
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North or South? - Plantations

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South

31
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North or South? - Agricultural

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South

32
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North or South? - Cotton

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South

33
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North or South? - Favor a strong central government

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North

34
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North or South? - Favor states’ rights

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South

35
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Kansas or Missouri? - Proslavery state

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Missouri

36
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Kansas or Missouri? - Bushwhackers

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Missouri

37
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Kansas or Missouri? - Jayhawkers

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Kansas

38
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Kansas or Missouri? - Border Ruffians

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Missouri (They were Missourians that crossed into Kansas to vote in the Kansas Territorial elections)

39
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North or South? - Confederate

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South

40
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North or South? - Union

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North

Social Studies 8 2017 (10 decks)

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