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1
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Why did South secede?

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  1. Slavery
  2. State Rights
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Mexican Cession, 1848

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Mexico ceded CA and NM for $15 million

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Wilmot Proviso

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any land gained in Mexican-American War is off limits to slavery

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Treaty of Guadalupe

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established border, and set up Mexican Cession

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Henry Clay

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wrote compromise of 1850 which canceled Missouri Compromise

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Popular Sovereignty

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each territory should vote on slavery

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End of The Second 2-Party System

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Whigs break off and become rep.

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Irish & German Immigrants

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large amounts seeking new life, ethnic communities

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Bleeding Kansas

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pro and anti people fight in Kansas

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William Seward

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sec. of state for Lincoln, he handled international affairs during Civil War

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Fugitive Slave War

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Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854

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(Stephan Douglas) already free bu allowed for a vote on slavery, popular sovereignty on slavery, over-turned Missouri Compromise

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Dred Scott v Sanford, 1857

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black man wants to be free in Missouri
1) blacks had no rights in fed. court
2) slave states no longer had to honor “once free always free”

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Abraham Lincoln

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(won 40% of pop. vote) free-soiler, did not want to abolish already slave states but did not support the spread

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Election of 1860

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Dem. Stephan Douglas, Rep. Abraham Lincoln

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Nativism

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anti-immigrants, wanted to gave fed. gov. to ban immigration

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James Buchanan

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(15th prez.) made no decisions in office, did nothing w/ slavery

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Republican Party

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former Know Nothing, abolitionists, free soilers, conscience whigs

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Secession

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states leaving the common gov. and country

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Justice Roger Taney

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judge who voted against Dred Scott in 1857

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Conscience Whigs

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Free Soil Movement

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not against slavery just don’t want it near them for econ. reasons (mostly dem. & whigs)

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California Gold Rush

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Preston Brooks and Charles Sumner

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Lecompton Constitution
election was totally fraud, so this confirmed slavery spread into north
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Personal Liberty Laws
sought to protect citizens from false arrest as "runaway slaves"
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Constitutional Union Party, 1860s
3rd party, former whigs, avod secession
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Democrat Factions
northern dem.s w/ Douglas southern dem.s w/ Beckenridge
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Whig Party
became cotton whigs -> pro-slavery and conscience whigs -> anti-slavery
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Stephan Douglas
"the little giant" democrat
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
(written by William Lloyd Garrison) showed the reality of a slaves' life in the south
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Lincoln-Douglas Debates
3 hrs. of debating over the reps. won more votes facts of slavery
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John Brown/Harpers Ferry, 1859
was an army that would be used to arm slaves and fight pro-slavery (unsuccessful)
34
Freeport Doctrine, 1858
a territory could decide to allow slavery w/ popular sovereignty
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Know Nothings
code phrase for people in racist groups against immigrants
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Declaration 1860
SC seceded then FL, AL, GA, TX, LA, MA, AK, TN, NC
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John A. Sutter
immigrant from Germany to CA established settlement near Sacramento
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Gadsden Purchase
land gained in Mexican cession in lower AZ
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Clays Compromise, 1850
1) CA is free state 2) divide MX cession into NM & UT territories, slavery pop. sovereignty 3) pass & enforce fugitive slave law 4) slave trade banned in wash. D.C.
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Ostend Manifesto
doc. that said US gov. wanted to take Cuba, and is willing to take it by force
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North
free wage laborers working manufacturing jobs in factories (rapid pop.)
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South
enslaved labor working on agricultural plantations
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Fort Sumter
where the first shots were fired in beginning of the Civil War
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Constitutional Arguments For/Against Secession
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Robert E. Lee
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Ex Parte Merryman, 1862
Taney commands Lincoln to release imprisoned MD sucessions leaders (Lincoln ignores)
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Ex Parte Milligan, 1866
military tribunes for civilians illegal if civilian courts are available
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First Inaugural Address of Lincoln
49
13th Amendment, 1865
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Radical Republicans
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Gettysburg Address
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Homestead Act/Morrill Land Grant Act
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Seceding States
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Andrew Johnson
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Thaddeus Stevens
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Conscription
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Emancipation Proclamation, 1863
encouraged slaves to run away
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NY City Draft Riot
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Ulysses S. Grant
60
54th Massachusetts
61
Greenbacks
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Plessy v Ferguson, 1896
says facilities can be separated but equal
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Ulysses S. Grant Scandals
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Erodusters
blacks who leave to build up on their own
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Republican Party
66
Reconstruction
67
NAWSA
68
Andrew Johnson
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Compromise f 1877
troops out south, more fed. aid
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Economy of South
deeply rooted in slave econ. and cotton
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Grandfather Clauses
if your grandfather voted you can then vote
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Sharecropping
you crop for others they sell and you get a portion of pay
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Carpetbagger
north rep. who moved to south after war
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Specie Resumption Act of 1875
redemption of paper currency but also gold
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Redeemer/Bourbon Govt's
want south to vote together
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Segregation
separation of blacks and whites
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14th Amendment, 1868
all men no matter race are citizens
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Poll Taxes
required anyone who wanted to vote must pay
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KKK
group that terrorized the blacks living in the south
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Slaughter House Cases
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Jim Crow
de facto - is natural de jure - is controlled
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Veto/Pocket Veto
when congress goes on vacay. and prez. ignores bill
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Solid South
all of the south votes dem. together
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13th Amendment, 1865
abolished slavery and persuaded slaves to flee north
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Minor v Happersett, 1875
women are citizens but cannot vote
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Charles Sumner
beat up w/ cane, leader of anti-slavery, senator
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Freedman's Bureau, 1865
provide food, shelter, clothing, medical
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Alexander H. Stephens
VP of confed.s then, gov. of GA
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John Wilkes Booth
killed Abe. Lincoln
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Wade-Davis Bill
guarantee states whose gov. was over thrown
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Black Codes
limit movement and freedom of blacks
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Panic of 1873
sets off depression, led to end of reconstruction
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Crop-lien System
if you can't pay store then the store liens you but you continue working
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Booker T. Washington
born slave, helped fund civil rights
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15th Amendment, 1870
would be allowed to vote regardless of race
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Literacy Tests
usually guessing cotton balls, tests to see if you can vote
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The Nation/Harper's Weekly
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Civil Rights Act 1866, 1875

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