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U.S. History Unit 1 Flashcards

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  1. Free Soil Party
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The people who supported the Wilmot Proviso

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  1. Wilmington Proviso
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David Wilmot proposed a law saying “neither slaver nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any lands won from Mexico.

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  1. Popular Sovereignty
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A policy stating that voters in a territory, not congress, have the right to choose if slavery would be allowed there or not.

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  1. Secede
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Break away from the union

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  1. Compromise of 1850
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A way to keep the North and South together.

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  1. Fugitive Slave Act
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Citizens who help slaves runaway can be fined or imprisoned

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  1. Personal Liberty Laws
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Nullified fugitive slave act and allowed for the arrests of people who catch slaves for kidnapping.

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  1. Underground Railroad
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A loosely organized path that helped slaves escape captivity.

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  1. Harriet Tubman
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A conductor of the Underground Railroad. The main face of the Underground Railroad.

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  1. Harriet Beecher Stowe
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The author of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”, a condemnation of slavery.

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  1. Kansas-Nebraska Act
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The official splitting of Kansas and Nebraska

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  1. John Brown
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New York abolitionist

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  1. Bleeding Kansas
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The common known name of Kansas because of all of the fights going on.

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  1. Know-Nothings
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Anti-immigrant movement, whenever asked about nativist organization, they responded with “we know nothing”

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  1. Republican Party
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The rise of a new party as a collection of old parties. Mostly represented opposition to slavery.

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  1. Dred Scott
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Missouri slave who sued for his freedom.

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  1. Roger B. Taney
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Chief Justice while Dred Scott sued.

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  1. Abraham Lincoln
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16th president of US

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  1. Stephen A. Douglas
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Illinois politician who ran for president against Lincoln

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  1. Harper’s Ferry
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Place in Virginia where John brown and friends went to destroy slavery.

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  1. Jefferson Davis
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Convinced congress to adopt resolutions restricting federal control over slavery in the territories.

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  1. John C. Beckonridge
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Committed to spreading slavery.

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  1. Confederate States of America
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7 seceding states 
Texas
Louisiana
Mississippi
Alabama 
Georgia
Florida
South Carolina
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  1. Crittenden Compromise
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John Crittenden proposed a compromise of allowing all states south of the Missouri compromise to be slave states.

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25. Fort Sumter
1 of 4 remaining forts in control of the Union.
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26. Blockade
Military tactic in which a navy prevents vessels from entering or leaving its enemy's ports
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27. Robert E. Lee
Confederate war leader
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28. Anaconda Plan
Union war strategy. Coil around enemies like a snake.
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29. Border State
Missouri, Kentucky, Delaware, Maryland | Part of union. Allow slavery,but fight for north.
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30. Stonewall Jackson
Won first battle for confederates. Won the battle of bull run/mannassa
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31. George B. McClellan
The replacement for General Irvin McDowell
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32. Ulysses S. Grant
Union army general
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33. Shiloh
Southwest Tennessee and home of huge civil war battle
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34. Contraband
Captured war supplies
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35. Antietam
Battle of Antietam was called the bloodiest single day of the civil war
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36. Emancipation Proclamation
Military decree, freed enslaved people in states that are still in rebellion. Did not apply to the union or loyal border states. September 22, 1862.
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37. 54th Massachusetts Regiment
Full black Union army. Not slaves
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38. 13th Amendment
Outlaw slavery in the United States
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39. John Wilkes Booth
The man who assassinated Abe Lincoln on April 14th
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40. Matthew Brady
A photographer and journalist who pictured "The Dead at Anitetam"
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41. Land Grant College Act
Gave money from the sale of public lands to states for the establishment of universities that taught "agricultural and mechanical arts"
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42. Reconstruction
Program implemented by the federal government between 1865 and 1877 to repair civil war damage and restore southern states to the union.
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43. Radical Republican
Congressmen who advocated full citizenship for African Americans along with a harsh reconstruction policy for the South.
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44. Freedman's Bureau
Federal agency designed to aid freed slaves and poor white farmers in the south after the Civil War
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45. Black Code
Laws that restricted African Americans' rights and opportunities
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46. Civil Rights Act of 1866
Law that established federal guarantees of civil rights for all citizens
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47. 14th Amendment
1868 constitutional amendment which defined citizenship and guaranteed citizens equal protection under the law
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48. Impeach
Accusation against a public official of wrong doing in office.
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49. 15th Amendment
1870 constitutional amendment that guaranteed voting rights regardless of race or previous condition of servitude. Still NO women vote.
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50. Scalawag
Negative term for a white who supported the Republican Party after the civil war
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51. Carpetbaggers
Negative term for northerners who moved to south after the civil war
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52. Segregation
Forced separation, most of the times by race
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53. Integration
Process of bringing people of different races, religions, and social classes together.
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54. Sharecropping
System in which a farmer tended a portion of a planter's land in return for a share of the crop
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55. Tenant farming
System when farmer pays a landowner to use his land for crops.
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56. Ku Klux Klan
Extreme racist group towards African Americans
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57. Enforcement acts
1870 and 1871 laws that made it a federal offense to interfere with w citizens right to vote.
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58. Redeemer
Politicians who aimed to repair/redeem the South
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59. Rutherford B. Hayes
1876 election candidate, Ohio native, republican
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60. Compromise of 1877
Hayes was elected president, in return for removing troops from the south, appoint a southern congressman to a powerful cabinet position, and south was guaranteed subsidies to repair railroads and improve ports.
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61. Entrepreneur
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62. Protective tariff
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63. Laissez faire
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64. Patent
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65. Thomas Edison
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66. Bessemer process
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67. Time zone
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68. Mass production
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U.S. History (2015-16) (5 decks)

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