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Zachary Taylor

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12th pres
Cherries and milk
Cholera Morbus

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Compromise of 1850

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Admit California as a free state and enforce the Fugitive state Law and required northern states to return runaway slaves to the south

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Millard Fillmore

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  • 13th president
  • Most forgettable president
  • believed in slavery: 60% of economy based on southern cotton
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Franklin pierce

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  • 14th president
  • son dies in a train accident 3 weeks before inauguration , 3rd lost child , effects his presidency
  • signs Kansas Nebraska act
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Harriet Tubman

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  • freed over 300 slaves in 19 trips during the 1850s
  • called the Conductor of the Underground Railroad
  • known as “Moses of her people”
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Harriet Beecher Stowe

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-abolitionist who wrote uncle Toms cabin

about the cruelty of slavery

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Border ruffians

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Missourians who traveled in armed groups to cast pro slavery ballots

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John brown

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Killed 5 pro slavery settlers in Pattawomie Kansas, hacked them with sabers with his four sons, he believed he was doing God’s will

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Bleeding Kansas

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Hundreds of people are killed over the issue

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James Buchanan

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15th president , rated near the bottom ,never married,

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What happens while James Buchanan was in office

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7 southern states leave in February 1861

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Dreads Scott case

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1857 slave who says he should be free

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What were the results of the Dredd Scott case

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  • a slave is not a citizen and can’t sue in courts

- the Missouri compromise is unconstitutional

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Lincoln Douglass debates 1858

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  • 7 debates for the senate seat
  • campaign brings Lincoln to National Prominence
  • the issue of slavery
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Harpers Ferry 1859

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A plan to help free slaves and lead a slave rebellion led by John brown

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Abraham Lincoln

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  • 16th president
  • ranked the first president
  • “a house divided against itself cannot stand”
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Who was the first and only president for the Confederate states of America

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Jefferson Davis

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What was the civil war originally fought for

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State rights

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Fort Sumter April 12, 1861

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  • first shots fired located in South Carolina controlled by the union
  • confederates surround and attack the fort
  • thought the war would only last 90 days
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Robert Anderson

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Union commander

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Pierre Beauregard

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Confederate commander

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More states secede

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Texas, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia, Florida, N&S Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Arkansas
-capital moves to Richmond va, 60 miles from Washington D.C.

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Machines of war

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Hot air balloons, rifled musket, prosthetics, land mines

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North names

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Yankee, blue, union

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South names
Rebel, grey, confederacy
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Robert E Lee
- asked by Lincoln to command union, declines | - one of the Greatest generals ever fought for the South
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What did Robert e lee say
"I cannot raise my hand against my birthplace, my home, and my children"
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Battle of Bull run (Manassas)
- July 21, 1861 known as Manassas by the south and bull run by the north - union retreats to Washington DC - 1st major battle of the war, South wins - Wilbur McLeans house: the war started started in his front yard and ended in his front parlor
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Thomas Jackson
- "stonewall Jackson" - Lee's right hand man - "he lost his left arm, I lost my right"(robelee)
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How did Thomas jackson die
Shot by his own men after the battle of Chancellorsville
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Union strategy
Anaconda plan, also the 1,000 mile front
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Battle of Old Iron Clads
- Merrimac: south - the union builds the monitor - battle lasts 4 hours - Merrimac draws
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Bloodiest day of the war
Battle of Antietam (sharpsburg)
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Bloody Lane
Ditch with 2-3 dead bodies stacked on top of each other
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Jan 1, 1863 Lincoln declares freedom of the slaves in the states which seceded from the union
Emancipation proclamation
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When did the war turn to the issue of slavery
Emancipation proclamation
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1st conscription act
Men age 20-45 become liable for military service
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How can you avoid serving in the military
Pay a fee or 300-500$
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Battle of Vicksburg
- Ulysses S.Grant and the Union surrounds the town, civilization , civilizations move to cave dwellings along the Mississippi - confederates surrender July 4, 1863
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Battle of Gettysburg
- July 1-3, 1863 - July 1- the union sets up on Seminary Ridge(high ground) - July 3 pickets charge - turning point in the war 53,000 killed in battle
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Lawrence Chamberlain
Union colonel of the 20th main leads a bayonet charge down- Little round top defeats the confederates
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Gettysburg Address
- Lincoln speaks for 2 1/2 mins "fourscore and 7 years ago" - purpose: opening of a cemetery - this nation under God shall have a New Birth of Freedom
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The wilderness campaign
- Ulysses S. Grant is now the commanding General of the Union - leads troops March-June 1864 through the wilderness in many bloody battles towards Richmond Va.
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One of the most famous Black regiments led by white abolitionists
54th regiment Massachusetts
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Sherman's March to sea
- 1864 William Tecumseh Sherman and 60,000 union troops besiege Atlanta and burn - Sherman follows destroying 60 mile wide path to the sea then turned north to the Carolina's
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Surrender at Appomattox April 9, 1865
- April 9, 1865 Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox court House - this virtually ended the civil war
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Clara Barton
- angel of the battlefield | - helped organize American Red Cross
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Andersonville
- worst southern prison camp | - became 5th largest town in the confederacy
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How many Americans died in the Civil war
600,000
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Lincoln pardons the south
"I shall treat them as if they have never been away"-Lincoln | Forgive them
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The 13th amendment
-January 1865 outlawed slavery
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Freeman's Bureau
Govt. relief for Both Blacks and whites who lost everything in the war, supplied food, medical care and education Education was greatest success
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10% plan
- when 10% voters took an oath of loyalty to the union, states allowed a new govt. - banned slavery
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Lincolns assassination
- April 14,1864 - watching 'our American cousin' - John Wilkes booth - Peterson house: Lincoln's taken to the house across the street - "sic semper tyrannis" thus always to tyrants
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Andrew Johnson
17th president - only former pres to serve as a senator - removed a public official without the consent of the senate - 1st pres to be impeached
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Black codes
Laws that restricted black civil rights | -literacy tests
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Sharecropping
A landowner rented land to a farmer along with a crude shack, some tools are perhaps even a mule -farmer paid rent by giving 2/3 or crops
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14th amendment
1868 gave black Americans equal rights and protection
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Reconstruction act of 1867
Divide the south into 5 military districts with generals governing each district
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Ku klux klan
Goal was to restore Democratic control in the south | Flogged, lynched, and terrorized black and white republicans in the south
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Ulysses s. Grant 1869-77
- 18th president - union commanding general - appoints corrupt cabinet members which ruin his presidency
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15th amendments
-1870 prohibited the states from denying any person the right to vote because of race, color, or previous servitude
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The idea that people living in a state or territory should decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery
Popular sovereignty

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