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Ahsge Standard 4
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11th Grade
01/18/2012

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Compromise of 1850
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What congressional solution made california a free state and gave opular sovereignty to the new mexico and Utah territories?
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Fugitive Slave Law
Definition
What part of the solution in the compromise of 1850 upsets many northerners (there were five parts of this soulution)?
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
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What act supported by Stephen Douglas gave popular sovereignty to two territories just west of Missouri?
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Republican
Definition
What political party was formed in the 1850's that supported the anti-slavery platform (also,it is known as the party of Lincoln)?
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Scott v. Sanford (Dred Scott decision)
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What famous court case upheld the right of slave owners as property holders and disallowed slaves to file court cases?
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John Brown
Definition
Who led the masacre at Pottawatomie Creek, NE and led the raid on the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry?
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Abraham Lincoln
Definition
Who won the pesidental election in 1860?
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South Carolina
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What state was the first to secede from the Union in 1860?
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Winconsin County
Definition
What county in Alabama never seceded from the Union?
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Virginia (West Virginia)
Definition
What state was actually split over the decision to secede and eventually became two states?
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54th Massachusetts
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What was the most famous of the Black military units to fight in the Civil War?
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Homestead Act
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What act passed by the Republican dominated congress (during the Civil War) gave large land grants to states from the government?
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Emancipation Proclamation
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What did Lincoln pass on Jan. 1, 1863 granting freedom to slaves in the Confederate states in rebellion?
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Writ of Habeas Corpus
Definition
What did Lincoln suspend during the Civil War, depriving many citizens of their civil rights?
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Antietam
Definition
What battle resulted in the single bloodiest day of the Civil War?
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Gettysburg
Definition
What major three-day battle did the Conferderates (under Lee) lose in Pennsylvania?
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Vicksburg
Definition
What battle in Mississippi resulted in a complete blockade of the south by the Union?
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General Tecumseh Sherman
Definition
What Union general captured Atlanta and continued southeast to Savannah destroying everything in his path?
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Gettysburg Address
Definition
What famous speech was given by LIncoln at a consedration ceremony where he reminded Americans of the basic ideal, "All maen are created equal?"
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Appomattox Courthouse
Definition
Where did Robert E. Lee surrender to Grant in 1865?
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Reconstrution
Definition
What was the program called that returned southern states to the Union, rebuilt the South's infrastructure, and attempted to protect the rights of free blacks?
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Black Codes
Definition
What were the laws called passed by southern states attempting to control freedmen and keeping them in a subservient position?
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Carpetbaggers
Definition
What were northerners called who moved to the South, voted Republican,and were scorned by southerners after the Civil War?
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Scalawags
Definition
What were southerners called who voted Republican after the Civil War?
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Ku Klux Klan
Definition
What southern secret society emerged during the Reconstruction that harassed, tormented, and killed blacks demanding equality?
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President Grant
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What man served as president during Reconstruction and whose legacy (as president) is remembered as being very corrupt ?
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Compromise of 1877
Definition
What congressional solution resulted in Hayes winning the presidental election in 1876 and Reconstruction ending?
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Jim Crow Laws
Definition
What were the laws called passed in southern states after Reconstruction that stripped African Americans of basic rights like voting?
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Tenant farming
Definition
What type of farming existed in the south after the war where farmers rented land to grow crops?
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Sharecropping
Definition
What type of farming existed in the south after the war where farmers were forced to share crops with landowners?
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Morill Land Grant Act
Definition
Are pieces of US legislation which allowed for the creation of land-grant colleges, which would be funded by the grant of federally-controlled land to each of the states which had stayed with the United States during the American Civil War.
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