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| one of the major events leading up to the civil war, would have banned slavery in any area from the Mexican territory aqquired from the Mexican-Amerian war |
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| a set of five bills that was supposed to spread slavery into territories to keep a balance between the north and the south. |
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| States that the source of the Governments's power lies with the people. |
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| Ran for president against Abraham Lincoln. |
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| A law that provided Slaveholders with weapons to capture slaves who had escaped to free states. |
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| Freed slaves and White abolitionist who created a network of people to help fugitive slaves escape. |
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| Conductor of the underground railroad and was a freed slave. |
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| stardent abolitionist who wrote the book Uncle Tom's Cabin. |
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| a book that was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that had strong reactions from the North and the South. Was a bestselling book and had more than a million copies sold by 1853. |
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| Repealed the Missouri Compromise and made Nebraska a North State and Kansas a South State. |
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| White Abolitionist that believed God had called him to fight against slavery. |
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| The territory of Kansas, it was called bleeding Kansas because it had become a violent battlefield in the Civil War. |
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| The favoring of Native-born people. |
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| The party that was nativism, and when asked questions about their party were supposed to answer "I know nothing." |
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| Opposed the extension of slavery into the territories. |
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| One of the founders of the Republican party. |
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| The democrat elected in the 1856 election |
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| A slave from missouri, his owner had taken him over the missouri compromise line for years, and after his owner died, Scott filed a lawsuit for his freedom saying that he had been in a free territory for too long. |
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| The supreme court Chief Justice who decided in the Scott vs. Sanford court case. He decided that slaves did not have the same rights as citizens. |
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| a Republican challenger for the senate in 1856, later became president. |
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| Douglas's response to Lincoln's question saying that slavery wouldn't exist if it wasn't for being supported by local police regulations. |
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| John Brown led an uprising of black and white abolitionists through Harper's Ferry, Virginia. |
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| The confederate states of America. |
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| President of the Confederate States of America. |
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| was taken by the Confederates |
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| The North's plan to block ships from entereing the south and cut off The Confederace States of America. |
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| The first major bloodshed of the war. |
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| General of the Confederates in the Civil War. |
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| leader of the New Union army after Bull Run. |
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| General of the Union Army, when they invaded Tennessee. |
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| small church in Tennessee. Where Grant had gathered his troops. |
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| commander of the union ship that was to seize New Orleans. |
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| were the first American ships to fight against ironclad ships. |
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| General of the Confederate side. |
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| The bloodiest single-day battle in American history |
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| Emancipation Proclamation |
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| Issued by president Lincoln. Took a stand against slavery. |
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| a draft that would select certain people of the population to serve in the army. |
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| gruesome massacre where Confederates killed over 200 African American prisoners and a few white people as they pleaded for their life. |
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| held the worst prison, that jammed 33,000 men into 26 acres. |
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| union nurse that cared to wounded soldiers and people at the front lines. |
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| where the south had defeated the north. a prelude to Gettysburg. |
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| One of the two hideouts that the confederates had that prevented the union from taking complete control of the mississippi river |
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| President Lincoln's speech that gave dedication to the people that had lost their lives at Gettysburg. It was said to have "remade America" |
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| the new commander of the military division in Mississippi. |
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| Where the south surrendered. |
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| Founded by Clara Barton. Helps mass human suffering. |
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| Killed President Lincoln. |
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| The next president after Lincoln. |
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| The time when the United States was rebuilding after the Civil War; lasted for two years. |
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| wanted to destroy the political power of former slaveholders. |
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| proposed that congress not the president be in control of reconstruction. |
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| Assisted former slaves and poor whites in the south, gave them food and clothes. |
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| "all persons born or naturalized in the US" were citizens. |
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| no one can be kept from voting because of race,color, or previous condition of servitude. |
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| White southerners who joined the Republican party. |
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| Northerners who moved to the south after the war. |
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| the first African American Senator. |
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| where landowners gave poor whites or freed slaves a piece of land to harvest. And at Harvest time the people had to pay half of the money to the landowner. |
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| rent land for cash and keep the harvest. |
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| Ku Klux Klan, an extremely racist group that wanted to restore white supremacy. |
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| When a large banking firm went bankrupt, it set off series of financial failures. |
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| The republican's choice in the election of 1876. Became president because of the electoral college. |
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| The democrat's choice for the election of 1876, had majority of popularity vote. |
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| end of reconstruction in the south. |
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| the abilility to run state governments without federal intervention. |
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