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Chapter 15 Flashcards

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1
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As a result of the Lincoln-Douglas debates…

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Douglas defeated Lincoln for the Senate

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When Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election, people in SC…

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rejoiced because it gave them an excuse to secede

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In 1855, proslavery southerners regarded Kansas as…

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slave territory

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Election of 1856 candidates

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John C. Fremont - Republican
Millard Fillmore - Know Nothing
James Buchanan - Democratic

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Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin…

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intended to show the cruelty of slavery

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The immense debt owed to northern creditors by the South was…

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repudiated by the South

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Events in chronological order

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Kansas-Nebraska Act
Dred Scott Decision
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Harper’s Ferry Raid

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In Bleeding Kansas…was identified with proslavery and….was with antislavery

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Lecompton Constitution…New Eng. Immigrant Aid Society

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As a result of Uncle Toms, northerners…

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swore that they would have nothing to do with the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law

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The situation in Kansas indicated the impracticality of…..in the territories

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popular sovereignty

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As a result of the panic of 1857, the South…

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believed that “cotton was king”

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In ruling on the Dred Scott case, the US Supreme Court…

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expected to lay to rest the issue of slavery in the territories

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The gov’t of the Confederate States of America was first organized in….

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Montgomery, AL

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The Impending Crisis of the South argued that those who suffered most from slave labor were…

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non slave owning southern whites

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In his raid on Harper’s Ferry, John Brown intended to…

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foment a slave rebellion

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Nativists in the 1850s were known for their…

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anti-Catholic and antiforeign attitudes

17
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An “asset” for the South that never materialized was…

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intervention from GB and France

18
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During the Civil War…

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blacks were enlisted by the Union army only after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued

19
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The two major battles fought on Union territory

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Gettysburg and Antietam

20
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The Southern cause was weakened by…

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the concept of states’ rights that the Confederacy professed

21
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The Battle of Antietam was particularly critical because it…

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probably prevented intervention by GB and France on behalf of the Confederacy

22
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Lincoln hoped that a Union victory as Bull Run would…

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lead to the capture of the Confederate capital at Richmond

23
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The assassination of Abraham Lincoln…

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was a calamity for the South

24
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Clement L. Vallandigham, a Southern sympathizer and vocal opponent of the war, was derisively labeled a..

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Copperhead

25
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Robert E. Lee decided to invade the North through Penn. in order to…

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deliver a decisive blow that would strengthen the Northern peace movement

26
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Lincoln’s problems were easier that Davis’s because the north…

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had a long-est. and fully recognized gov’t

27
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The Battle of Gettysburg was important because…

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Union victory meant that the Southern cause was doomed

28
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Battle order

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Battle of Bull Run
Battle of Antietam
Gettysburg
Lee’s surrender

29
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Eman. Proc declared free only those slaves in…

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states still in rebellion against the US

30
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In the 1864 election, the Democratic party nominated….to oppose Lincoln’s reelection

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George McClellan

31
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The Confederate blockade runner, the Merrimack, was…

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destroyed by Confederate soldiers

32
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One consequence of General William T. Sherman’s style of warfare was…

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a shorter war that saved lives

33
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The Union victory at Vicksburg was of major importance because…

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SEE PACKET

34
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The election of 1864, the Republicans joined with the prowar Democrats and founded the BLANK party

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Union

35
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The Civil War resulted in…

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1) expanding the federal powers of taxation
2) the end of slavery
3) the end of nullification and secession
4) the creation of the first federal social welfare agency

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