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| Cal. came into Union a free state, slave trade was ended in DC,Fugitive Slave Act was enforced, and Utah and Nebraska could determine if they wanted to be free or slave. |
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| What did the Constitutional Union Party stand for? |
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| they wanted to avoid argument over the slave issue. |
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| What was Johnson's reconstruction plan? |
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| Those who owned property worth more than 20,000 dollars or those who had high military positions had to apply to the president for a pardon. After a few people began to disagree he enforced some more rules: the southern states had to approve the 13th amendment (made slavery illegal), they had to nullify their ordinances of secession, and the south had to promise not to repay people that helped finance the Confederacy. |
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| Continue the work of the Emancipation Proclamation that officially ended slavery. |
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| granted citizenship to freedmen and forbad any state from denying the “equal protection law.” |
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| Granted all male citizens the right two vote regardless of race, color, or previous condition. |
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| What was Lincoln's reconstruction plan? |
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10% plan to rebuild the south and restore southern states. Lincoln had two steps, 1- All southerners except for high ranking confederate civil and military leaders would be pardoned after taking an oath of allegiance to the US.
2. When 10% of the voters in each state had taken the oath of loyalty, the state would be permitted to form a legal government and rejoin the union. |
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| What's the difference between sharecropping and tenant farming? |
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| In sharecropping the land owners provided the food, house, tools, and animals and in tenant farming the workers had to provide their own. |
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| Describe Sherman's March to the Sea. |
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| Sherman believed in total war. Him and his troops walk for 300 miles and burned everything. They reached Savannah after 3 months and when they arrived there were 25,000 bales of cotton were on the bay, worth 28 million dollars and he shipped them up to the North. His opponent was Joseph Johnson. |
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| The Ku Klux Klan was a secret organization that tried to keep freed slaves from exercising their new civil rights that were almost as good as white men. The freedmen that were not scared by them were carefully watched and knew that if they voted they could be killed. |
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| Describe the Dred Scott case. |
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| Dred Scott was a slave who went to court saying he was free since he lived in a free state and wanted to sue his owner. He was told since slaves weren’t citizens he wouldn’t sue him. |
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| Slaves who ran away to free states and were caught would be returned to their owners. |
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| Stephen, Toombs, and Cobb asked GA to accept the compromise of 1750 to avoid war, GA accepted it. |
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| People in Kansas and Nebraska had the choice if the state came into the union as a free or slave state. It did away with the Missouri Comprise that didn’t permit slavery north of the Missouri south border. |
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11 free states and 11 slave states
Missouri became a slave state when Maine turned into a free state it outlawed slavery above the southern border if Missouri and didn’t prevent the Civil War. |
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| States could overwrite laws. A tariff was placed to raise the prices of goods sold in the US and since the south had very few factories they found this unfair and were allowed to nullify federal laws. |
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| Northern soldiers that were captured were sent to Andersonville, GA where they were starved and poorly treated. |
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| The largest battle and the last major victory for the South. |
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| The South's 1st invasion of the North and it was the bloodiest 1 day battle. The north won. |
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| Emancipation Proclomation |
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| Written by Lincoln right after Antietam. If south surrendered then slavery could continue in the south. The south continued to fight instead. |
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| What did the Freedmen's Bureau do? |
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| They helped struggling slaves |
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| The north lined ships around the south borders and prevented them from exporting and importing goods. |
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| A politician from GA that was the VP of the Confederate States |
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| He helped found the Republican Party. |
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| Part of the House of Representatives and was the GA governor after the Civil War |
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| Leader of the Confederacy during the Civil War |
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| Why was Atlanta important to the south? |
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| It was a large area with many resources and goods. |
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