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Civil war and reconstruction
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11th Grade
02/20/2013

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13th amendment
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December 1865. ends slavery over whole U.S.`
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14th amendment
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Makes slaves citizens. establishes civil rights for freedom
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15th amendment
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Gives slaves rights to vote
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African-American participation
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Blacks voted and held high office Lt. Gov, Senator, Representative,etc
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Anaconda Plan
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Civil War: Union plan to cut South's trade; blockade, dethrone King Cotton and stop Europe from helping the South
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Antietam
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Sept 1862, Maryland Lee's first defeat, Union victory, Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation. Britain will not help the South.
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Anti-Slavery Movement
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AKA Abolitionists: Leader william Llod Garrison, The Liberator, and Frederick Douglas, the North Star. Slavery is a sin! Spiritually led to their work. Tied to religion and women's movement
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Appomattox Court House
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April 1865. Lee surrenders to Grant; Grant gives generous terms; was is over; no trials; no executions.
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Black Codes
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Replaced Slave code. Some rights but still ex Confederates States of America states restrict Freedmen's Rights
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Bleeding Kansas
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1856 Civil War in Kansas: proslavery versus Antislavery. Shows popular sovereignty won't Work
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John Wilkes Booth
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April 1865. Southern sympathizer who shoots Lincoln.
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John Brown
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The South sees mad man and conspiracy; the North sees a hero.
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Carpetbaggers
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Northerners who came South after Civil War. Voted Republican; viewed negatively by southerners
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Civil Rights Act of 1866
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Congress passed laws to end Black Codes; Civil rights to all
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Compromise of 1850
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Stronger Fugitive Slave Law; Popular sovereignty in Mexican Cession; ban slave trade in D.C. but not slavery. Lasts 10 years. California a free state
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Compromise of 1877
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South accepts Republican, Hayes as President; North agrees to end Reconstruction and withdraw troops
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Confederation
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Form of government used by Confederate States of America. Weak alliance of states; disadvantage for South in the war.
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Copperheads
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Southern sympathizers in the North, mostly Democrats. Opposed Lincoln and resisted the war
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Jefferson Davis
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President of the Confederate States of America, the South.
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Dred Scott v. Sanford, 1857
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Ruled blacks were not citizens. Ruled Congress could not stop slavery in the west. Angered the North.
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Election of 1860
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He won electoral votes only in the North: shows Sectionalism. South secedes. Immediate causes of the war along with Fort Sumter.
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Election of 1864
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Lincoln wins close election over Gen McClellan. Means war will continue to victory.
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Election of 1876
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Republican. Hayes wins over Democratic Tilden. Disputed electoral vote leads to Compromise of 1877l
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Emancipation Proclamation
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Issued Sept 1862. Freed slaves in areas of Rebellion. Gave North a clear goal to end slavery. Now Europe would not help the South.
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First Battle of Bull Run/ Manassas
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Shows both sides long and bloody war is coming. July 1861: North’s attempt to take Richmond gets nowhere. Now it will be total war of new technology and economic out-put.
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Fort Sumter S.C.
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April 1861. First shots. Confederate States of America fires on Fort Sumter until it surrenders. Lincoln calls for 75,000 volunteers to put down Rebellion.
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Free Soil Party
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1848. Committed to stopping expansion of slavery in the West because slavery was bad for blacks and poor whites
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