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09/14/2011

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Wilmot Proviso

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Would have made ex-mexican lands free states

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Compromise of 1850
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A series of five bills presented by Henry Clay meant to stave off sectional strife. (prevent civil war)
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Popular Sovreignity
Definition
The people in the state get to choose whether they are "slave" or "free".
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Stephen Douglas
Definition
Lost Election to Abraham Lincoln. Considered a "Giant" in Politics.
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Fugitive Slave Act
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Escaped slaves (even in the north) must be returned to their masters. Part of the Compromise of 1850.
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Underground Railroad
Definition
A series of people who helped slaves escape to the north. (Harriet Tubman was a big part)
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Harriet Tubman
Definition
Led slaves (about 70) to freedom by the underground railroad. Also worked for the union.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Portrayed slave-life realisticly.
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
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Created the territories Kansas and Nebraska and allowed them to vote for slave or free.
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John Brown
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Violent Revolutionary Abolitionist
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Bleeding Kansas
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1854-1858 A series of violent anti-slavery acts in the kansas territory.
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Nativism
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The belief that people born of the original american pilgrims should be treated better than immigrants.
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Know Nothing Party
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1845-1860 Nativist party whose members were told to say I know nothing when asked of their party's activities.
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Free Soil Party
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1848-1854 A short lived anti-slavery party whose members likely became a part of the republican party.
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Horace Greeley
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Famous for his abolitionist newspaper called the New York Tribune. The only presidential candidte to have died before votes were counted.
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James Buchanan
Definition
The 15th President. The only president from pennsylvania, the only to be a lifelong bachelor, and the last to be born in the 18th century (1700's).
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Dred Scott
Definition
A slave whose master treated him with many liberties, but the master's widow would not let him purchase his freedom. Part of an important cout case deciding that those born of African descent were not american citizens (Scott vs. Sanford)
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Roger B. Taney
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5th Chief Justice owned slaves who he manumitted. Delivered the ruling of the Dred Scott case.
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Abraham Lincoln
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Republican elected in 1860. His election started the civil war and he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
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Freeport Doctirine
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The Freeport Doctrine was Stephen Douglas's answer to Lincoln's question, in which he explained that slavery could only exist where there was a slave code. If a state did not pass laws to protect slavery, they couldn't have it.
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Harper's Ferry
Definition
John Brown's plan to seize the federal armory and start a huge slave revolt. He was caught by Robert E. Lee and hanged.
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Confederacy
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A confederacy of 11 states which seceeded from the union after Lincoln's election between 1861 and 1865.
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Jefferson Davis
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President of the Confederacy.
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Fort Sumter
Definition
First Battle of the Civil War. South Won.
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Anaconda Plan
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An outline stratagey for beating the Confederacy by blockading them. Proposed by Winfrield Scott.
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Bull Run (Manassas in Virginia)
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Second battle of the Civil War. South Won.
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Stonewall Jackson
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Confederate General. Accidently shot and killed by own troops.
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George Mcclelan
Definition
Major General under the union. Organized the Army of the Potomac
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Ulysses S. Grant
Definition
Major Union General defeated Robert E. Lee and became 18th president in 1869.
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Shiloh (Pittsburgh landing
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Union won this battle under Ulysses S. Grant. Suprise attack by confederates.
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David Farragut
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First admiral in the Navy and flag officer. worked for union.
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Monitor vs. Virginia
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Most important naval battle of civil war.
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Robert E. Lee
Definition
Best General of the Confederacy.
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Antietam
Definition
Bloodiest battle of civil war.
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Emancipation Proclamation
Definition
freed the slaves without citizenship.
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Conscription
Definition
draft.
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Fort Pillow (massacre)
Definition
Black union troops were massacred after surrendering
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Andersonville
Definition
site of a prisoner of war camp.
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Andersonville
Definition
site of a prisoner of war camp.
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Clara Barton
Definition
Organized the American Red Cross
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Chancellorsville
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Battle in which Lee won and Stonewall Jackson was killed.
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Vicksburg
Definition
Surrounded and besiged by Ulysses s. Grant. Union won
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Gettysburg Address
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Lincoln's most famous speech after the battle of Gettysburg.(Union won)
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William T. Sherman
Definition
Conducted total war as Union General.
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Appomatox court House
Definition
Where Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant.
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13th ammendment
Definition
outlawed slavery.except as punishment
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Red Cross
Definition
Humanitarian movement founded to protect human lives.
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John Wilkes Booth
Definition
assassinated Lincoln
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Andrew Johnson
Definition
17th president.
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Reconstruction
Definition
Era following civil war.
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Radical Republicans
Definition
A radical group which demanded rights for feedmen.
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Wade-Davis Bill
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A cold reconstruction plan that lincoln vetoed.
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Freedman's Bureau
Definition
Us. Gov. Agency that aided distressed freedmen.
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Black Codes
Definition
laws that limited African American's Rights.
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14th Ammendment
Definition
Black's can be citizens.
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15th Ammendment
Definition
Black's can vote.
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Scalawag
Definition
Nickname for southern whites who supported Reconstruction.
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Carpetbagger
Definition
Southern nickname for northerners who moved to the south also called Yankees.
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Hiram Revels
Definition
First African American in Us Congress.
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sharecropping
Definition
Landowner allows Tenant to use land in return of a portion of the crop harvested.
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Tenant Farmer
Definition
Resides and farms on land owned by a landlord.
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Ku Klux Klan
Definition
White supremecist terroist organization.
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The Panic of 1873
Definition
a economic depression lasting until 1879 originally called the great depression until the actual one it is now referred to as the LONG DEPRESSION.
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Rutherford B. Hayes
Definition
19th president oversaw end of reconstruction period.1877-1881.
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Samuel Tilden
Definition
Candidate for election in 1877. contreversial election.
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Compromise of 1877
Definition
The Corrupt Bargain.
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Home Rule
Definition
Allows a city or county to pass its own laws.
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