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  1. California admitted as a free state 2. establishes the idea of popular sovereignty
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Compromise of 1850

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)- gave a new human face to slavery for many Northerners who had never been to the South

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

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network of secret routes and safe houses for blacks to escape slavery and travel north

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Underground Railroad

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Mini Civil War when both abolitionists and pro slavery Southerners began sending in forces to support their side and influence the decision of whether or not Kansas would become a slave state, as determined by popular sovereignty

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Bleeding Kansas

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Rabid Abolitionist who attempted to incite a slave revolt by raiding Harper’s Ferry and killed 5 pro-slavery supporters in Pottawatomie, Kansas

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John Brown

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Missouri slave sued his owner for freedom because his owner took him to a free state.The court decided that Scott was property and therefore the 5th amendment applied and the government can not forbid one of their property therefore allowing slavery to be everywhere

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Dred Scott Case (Sanford v. Scott)

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an attempt by John Brown to lead an armed slave revolt to seize arsenal at Harper’s Ferry.

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Harpers Ferry

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created 1861, SC, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas all seceded following Lincoln’s election

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Confederate States of America

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balanced in both Agriculture and Industry

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Advantages of North in Civil War

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agriculture economy and dependent on slavery. believed in state’s rights

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Advantages of South

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Created two new territories with slavery decided by popular sovereignty. It effectively repealed the Missouri Compromise as it applied to slavery north of the Missouri Compromise line.

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Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)

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President of the United States. Believed slavery should not exist.

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Abraham Lincoln

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Created schools and aid for newly freed blacks

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Freedman’s Bureau

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President before Lincoln who did nothing when the South seceded

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James Buchanan

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White supremacy group that started after the Civil War. Use terror and intimidation to keep former slaves in their place

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KKK

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Southern whites who supported the North throughout reconstruction; corrupt

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Scalawags

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Confederate who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theater.

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John Wilkes Booth

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A northerner who went to the South immediately after the Civil War; especially one who tried to gain political advantage or other advantages from the disorganized situation in southern states

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Carpetbaggers

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Commander of the Confederate Forces

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General Robert E. Lee

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Invented the Cotton Gin. Actually needed more slave labor to pick the cotton to keep up with the machine

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Eli Whitney

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1st president of the Confederacy

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Jefferson Davis

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took over when President Lincoln died. Wanted to readmit the South and end slavery but did not want to give slaves rights.

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V.P Johnson

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Union general who devastated Georgia during his “March to the Sea”

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General Sherman

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Commander of the Union forces/ he prepared the men well, but he was awful at reading and executing battle plans

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General McClellan

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started Ku Klux Klan in 1865
Nathaniel Forrest
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Grant sent troops to the South to stop the KKK. Not very effective
KKK Act of 1870
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Grant sent troops to the South to stop the KKK. Not very effective
KKK Act of 1870
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a 1896 Supreme Court decision which legalized state ordered segregation so long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal
Plessy v. Ferguson
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John Brown plans to start a slave uprising, so he steals weapons at Harper's Ferry and is stopped, captured, tried for treason and put to death. Seen as a martyr in the North. Hated in the South.
Harper's Ferry Raid
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forgive, 10% loyalty, amnesty, abolish slavery
Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan
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forgive, 10% loyalty, amnesty, abolish slavery
Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan
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Punish, 50% loyalty, military rule
Congressional Reconstruction
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Readmit, abolish slavery, repeal ordinance of secession, Repay war debts
Johnson's Reconstruction Plan
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Readmit, abolish slavery, repeal ordinance of secession, Repay war debts
Johnson's Reconstruction Plan
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first state to secede from the Union
South Carolina
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first state to secede from the Union
South Carolina
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Years of the Civil War
1861-1865
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Years of the Civil War
1861-1865
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slavery, tariffs, state's rights
Sectional Differences
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slavery, tariffs, state's rights
Sectional Differences
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abolishes slavery
13th Amendment
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abolishes slavery
13th Amendment
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equal rights
14th Amendment
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equal rights
14th Amendment
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Right to vote
15th Amendment
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Hayes gets to be President, Southerner in the cabinet, military is pulled out of the South
Compromise of 1877
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Hayes gets to be President, Southerner in the cabinet, military is pulled out of the South
Compromise of 1877
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Lincoln speech dedicating the battlefield to the men who died at Gettysburg
Gettysburg Address
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Lincoln speech dedicating the battlefield to the men who died at Gettysburg
Gettysburg Address
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place where Lincoln was shot
Ford's Theater
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place where Lincoln was shot
Ford's Theater
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Lincoln wins based on a sectional election and the South decides to secede
Election of 1860
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shot in Ford's Theater; Lincoln was seen by a gynecologist but died the following morning
Lincoln assassination
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shot in Ford's Theater; Lincoln was seen by a gynecologist but died the following morning
Lincoln assassination
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2 sets of election results returned by the South; Hayes determined the winner
Election of 1876
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2 sets of election results returned by the South; Hayes determined the winner
Election of 1876
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Act passed by Congress that abolished previous state governments and set up 5 temporary military districts run by Union generals.
Reconstruction Act of 1867
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Act passed by Congress that abolished previous state governments and set up 5 temporary military districts run by Union generals.
Reconstruction Act of 1867
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Also known as the Missouri Compromise. Established the 36-30 line saying all states above the line will be free and all states below the line are slave with the exception of Missouri.
Compromise of 1820
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Also known as the Missouri Compromise. Established the 36-30 line saying all states above the line will be free and all states below the line are slave with the exception of Missouri.
Compromise of 1820
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someone who wants to abolish slavery
abolitionist
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someone who wants to abolish slavery
abolitionist
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Considered the military turning point in the war because it was the first major victory by the North in the Eastern Theater against Lee
Gettysburg
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Considered the military turning point in the war because it was the first major victory by the North in the Eastern Theater against Lee
Gettysburg
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Considered the political turning point in the war because following it Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation turning the war into a war about slavery forcing the South to lose their ally.
Antietam
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Considered the political turning point in the war because following it Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation turning the war into a war about slavery forcing the South to lose their ally.
Antietam
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Battle that secured Northern control of the Mississippi
Vicksburg
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Battle that secured Northern control of the Mississippi
Vicksburg
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Slave states that fought for the North because they believed it was a war about preserving the union, not slavery
Border States
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Slave states that fought for the North because they believed it was a war about preserving the union, not slavery
Border States
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full Presidential pardon for Confederate soldiers
amnesty
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full Presidential pardon for Confederate soldiers
amnesty
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A system used on southern farms after the Civil War in which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops.
sharecropping
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A system used on southern farms after the Civil War in which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops.
sharecropping
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When the people of a territory vote for themselves if they want to be a free state or slave state
popular sovereignty
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When the people of a territory vote for themselves if they want to be a free state or slave state
popular sovereignty
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Any of the laws legalizing racial segregation of blacks and whites that were enacted in Southern states beginning in the 1880s and enforced through the 1950's
Jim Crow Laws
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Any of the laws legalizing racial segregation of blacks and whites that were enacted in Southern states beginning in the 1880s and enforced through the 1950's
Jim Crow Laws
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if your grandfather could vote prior to 1867, you could vote; designed to limit black voting
Grandfather Clause
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if your grandfather could vote prior to 1867, you could vote; designed to limit black voting
Grandfather Clause
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to leave the Union
secession
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to destroy your enemy both physically and mentally; Sherman used in his March to the Sea
Total War
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to destroy your enemy both physically and mentally; Sherman used in his March to the Sea
Total War
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test required of blacks to take and pass before they could vote; designed to keep blacks from voting
Literacy Test
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test required of blacks to take and pass before they could vote; designed to keep blacks from voting
Literacy Test
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frees the slaves in states of rebellion (not everywhere)
Emancipation Proclamation
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hold on and wait for an ally; fought as individual states not a united country
Southern strategy
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hold on and wait for an ally; fought as individual states not a united country
Southern strategy
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required blacks to pay a fee in order to vote
Poll Tax
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required blacks to pay a fee in order to vote
Poll Tax
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split the South, control the rivers, take Richmond
Anaconda Policy
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designed to keep blacks in their place and restricted their voting capabilities
Black Codes
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South will vote in one voting block (Democrat) until the 1950s
Solid South
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Hillbillies lose the most socially and plantation owners lose the most economically
Socio-economic Diagram
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the realities of reconstruction are very different than the policies designed to free them and give them rights
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