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1793
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Cotton Gin
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#24
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Stonewall Jackson
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richmond
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capital of confederacy
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A. Lincoln Elected
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1860
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superior leadership/ military
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southern advantages
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Roger Taney
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supreme court justice
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15th Amendment
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right to vote
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Tariff
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A tax on imported goods
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Thirteenth Amendment
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ammendment that abolished slavery
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Copperheads
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Northerners who opposed the war
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Copperhead
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a northerner who opposed the war
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secede
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Southern states began to __________ (formally withdraw from a group) from the Union (another name for the USA).
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Confederacy advantages
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motivation, adjustment to climate, military leadership
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Fort Sumter
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Where did the war start?
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Bummers
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Confederate and Union deserters who would steal from the locals as they passed through.
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steamer, scotland
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blockade runners were mostly __________ ships built in __________
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Who were the photographers?
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brady and sullivan
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Fort Henry
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February 13-16, 1863
N- Grant
North wins
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compromise
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a settlement reached when two arguing groups agree to give up something
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13th Amendment
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freed all slaves without compensation to the slave owners; It forbade slavery in the United States
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Black enlistment
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letting papis apply to the military
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Capperhead
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Northerners who opposed using force to keep the South in the Union
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John Bell
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Constitutional Union Party; wanted to do whatever he could to protect the Union
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integrate
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To end separation of different races and bring into equal membership in society
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amnesty act
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their rulings heart former slave rights
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William T Sherman
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an American soldier, businessman, educator, and author. He served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861-65), for which he received recognition for his outstanding command of military strategy and criticism for the harshness of the "scorched earth" policies that he implemented in conducting total war against the Confederate States
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SOuth Carolina
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After leaving Georgia, Sherman's army conquered and destroyed______
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Carpetbaggers
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Northerners that moved to the south during reconstrucstion
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Free-soil Movement
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Didn't want to end slavery everywhere. Didn't want slaves or free blacks moving to the West.
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Gettysburg Address
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Speech given by Abraham Lincoln which captured the spirit of liberty and morality ideally held by citizens of a democracy. That ideal was threatened by the Civil War.
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economy
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system by which goods and services are produced and distributed to meet people's needs
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Ironclad
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The first iron covered warships in the Civil War. The two most famous were the Merrimac and the Monitor
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•Slave Trade
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Also known as the Triangle Trade. Europe exports goods to Africa. Africa ships slaves to America. America returns goods to Europe. The slave labor plantations included cotton, sugar, tobacco, molasses, and rum. Eventually, slave trade collapsed in the mid 1800's, so Americans bred Africans to sell as slaves to other Americans. The exporting of slaves might had been illegal, but the selling of slaves within America was ok.
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California
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Admitted as a free state by the Compromise of 1850, re-ignited the debate over slavery
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Underground Railroad
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series of routes and hiding places used to bring slaves to freedom
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Jefferson Davis
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President of the Confederate States of America
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African Americans
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fought on the union's side: the confederates wouldn't give them guns
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south
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Most slave states were located in this region of teh states
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Rebel
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'johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War
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wilderness campaign
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campaign in which grant lost 50000 soldiers
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daniel webster
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gave speech on the compromise of 1850
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1861
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year Kansas became a state AND the year the Civil War started
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secessionist
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someone who wanted the South to leave the Union
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Anaconda Plan
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The Norths Plan to seperate the South.
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Fort Wagner
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Fort in South Carolina that was the site of an attack by the African Amaerican 54th Massachusetts Regiment in 1863
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INCOME TAX
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Tax paid to the state, federal, and local governments based on income earned over the past year.
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Thaddeus Stevens
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One of the leaders of the Radical Republicans
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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wrote Uncle Toms Cabin tuched the hearts of thousands of northerners. accepted its description of suffering slaves and heartless owners as a true picutre of life in the south. stirred northerners against slavery as nothing else had. south sparked a storm of protests southerners felt that the book misled readers about slavery. made the south more bitter towards abolitionists.
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Conscription
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law that required men to serve in the military or be drafted
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14th amendmant
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all in dividuals born in u.s. r cidizens because they thought that it wasnt fair that they didnt have same writes but johnson didnt like idea nad congress did
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Farragut
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He was the commander of the union navy and captured New Orleans.
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Ulysses S. Grant
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an American general and the eighteenth President of the United States (1869-1877). He achieved international fame as the leading Union general in the American Civil War.
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Battle of Gettysburg
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Largest battle ever fought in North America, three-day battle; 24,000 Confederate troops & 19,000 Union troops
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siege
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the surrounding of a place in order to force it to surrender
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Salmon Chase
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Secretary of treasure. Led a group of critics against Lincoln.
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President Buchanan
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was from PA and allowed each state to decide about slavery
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Fugitive Slave Act
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passed 1850 this law stated that ALL citizens were required to assist in the recovery of runaway slaves and fugitives slaves could NOT get a jury trial
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The Battle has 3 phases.....
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First: July 1, 1863 Confederates pushed Union troops out of the town and into the hills
Second: July 2, 1863 Lee attacks but Union holds their ground
Third: July 3, 1863 Picketts charge, a major assault by the confederacy conducted by George Pickett and A.P. Hill
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battle of vicksburg
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- was one of two confederate holdouts for preventing union from taking mississippi
- after 18 days union capture it
- city falls july 4
- confederacy was cut in two
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What was the 14th amendment?
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Guaranteed US citizenship to anyone born in the US.
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Comp of 1850
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who: USA govt
what: CA = free, TX loses NM but paid $10 mill, NM and UT=pop sov, Fugitive slave act = strengthened after Dred Scott (if slave ran to free state the master had the right to get them back), slave trade banned in washington DC
where: for the new territory acquired from CA
when: 1850
sig: started pop sov and decided slave vs free fate of new territory that had created conflict before
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confederate states america
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the group of 11 Southern states that seceded from the United States in 1860–61.
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Appomattox Court House
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famous as the site of the surrender of the Confederate Army under Robert E. Lee to Union commander Ulysses S. Grant
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Confederate States of America
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a republic formed in February of 1861 and composed of the eleven Southern states that seceded from the United States
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What were the southern strengths?
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fighting a defensive war, they knew the land, their soldiers were skilled and they had the support of the local population
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PGT Beauregard and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
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Who were the two Confederate generals that fought in the 1st battle of bull run?
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Lincolns aims for beginning of Civil War
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Not about slavery, keeping union together and getting states back together
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3 main military goals of the north at the start of the civil war
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naval blockade, control mississippi, capture richmond
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how did Douglas an lincoln differ in their ideas on slavery
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Lincoln is anti-slavery and Douglas is pro-slavery
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What as the clash of the Iron Clads?
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The USS Monitor vs The CSS Merrimac (Virginia)
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