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Ch.5: Secession & Resistance
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02/02/2005

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This admitted Missouri as a slave state & Maine as a free state to continue the balance between slave & free states
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Missouri Compromise (1820)
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This admitted California as a free state and territories of Utah & New Mexico were open to slavery by popular sovereignty
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Compromise of 1850
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These were part of the Compromise of 1850; they required that escaped slaves be returned to their owners in the South
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Fugitive Slave Laws
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People in each territory vote whether to permit slavery
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popular sovereignty
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President of the Confederate States of America
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Jefferson Davis
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Massachusetts senator who denounced violence in Kansas; he also criticized Senator Andrew Butler of South Carolina and was beaten with a cane until unconscious by Sen. Butler's nephew.
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Charles Sumner
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Tax on imported goods
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tariff
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Anti-slavery agitator who seized an arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia in 1859 hoping to lead a slave revolt; he was hanged in 1859 for this action.
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John Brown
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Northern Democrat who defended the doctrine of popular sovereignty
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Stephen Douglas
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This act permitted territories of Kansas & Nebraska to choose whether or not to permit slavery, and in effect, repealed the Missouri Compromise.
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
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This term is used to describe conflict in Kansas territory between anti-slavery factions & pro-slavery groups; both sides suffered deaths & injuries)
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Bleeding Kansas
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This state opposed Virginia's secession & became a state in 1863
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West Virginia
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The place where the Constitution of the Confederate States of America was drafted
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Montgomery, Alabama
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The first capital of the Condfederacy
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Montgomery, Alabama
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Virginia, North & South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Florida, Texas, & Louisiana made up what?
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The Confederate States of America
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to leave the Union
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secede
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This county in Alabama voted to remain neutral during the Civil War
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Winston County
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There was a slave who moved to the North with his owner. When his owner died, he sued for freedom. The Supreme Court ruled he could not sue because slaves were not citizens. This decision is known as what?
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Dred Scott Decision
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A Union plan to squeeze the South by applying a naval blockade around the southern coast and seizing the Mississippi River while invading from the north.
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Anaconda Plan
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This territory was made up of present day Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, & part of Minnesota.
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Northwest Territory
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The first shots of the Civil War were fired here.
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Fort Sumter
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The President before Lincoln; by inaction, he tried to stop the Civil War from happening
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President Buchanan
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Slave who moved to the north with his owner & tried to sue for freedom after his owner's death.
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Dred Scott
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