Civil war/ Reconstruction Flashcards
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Sectionalism
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When people favor the interest of one region over the interests of the nation. Showing loyalty to your section.
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State’s Rights
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the idea that each state had the right to determine whether or not to follow federal laws
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About the north
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- North was very industrialized
- Had many factories and businesses
- Wanted Traiffs
- Whanted to abolish slavery
- More transportation and had a more educatated pouplation
- Labobr Force was immigrants
- used cotton from south for textile mills
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About the South
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- Since the invention of the cotton gin, the need for cotton increased causing the demand for more slaves
- Economy based on farming and agriculture
- Did not want tariffs \
- Not that industrilized
- Labor force = slaves
- Sold cash crops
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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- Wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin
- This was in response to the Fugitive Salve Law
- She wanted to write a book to show what slavery really was like, this helped to fight against slavery
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Lincoln
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- Preident Lincoln main goal was to preserve the Union at all costs
- The 16th president of the U.s, during the civil war
- Nominated in the presidential election of 1860
- Lincoln opposed the expansion ofr slavery but not the system of slavery in the South
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Harriet Tubman
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- an escaped slave
- was the conductor of the Underground Railroad
- helped free many slaves with her bravery
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Frederick Douglass
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- an escaped slave
- Founded the anti-slavery newspaper “The North Star”
- Wrote many autobiographies about his life as a slave
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Dred Scott
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- Was a slave who was moved with his owner to a slave free territory
- He sued for his freedom
- Both the Supreme Court did not do anything, as they decided that slaves are property
- The Dred Scott Decision declared the Missouri Compromise as unconstitunti9onal
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John Brown
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- John Brown’s Raid on Harpers ferry
- Brown was against slavery so he led a raid to the armory at Harpers Ferry in Virgina
- He hoped that slaves would also help him revolt but they did not
- After Brown’s raid was stopped he was found guilty and then hanged
- John Brown was though of as a hero in the North and a treason in the South
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The Missouri Compromise of 1820
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- Written by Henry Clay the great Compromiser
1. Maine was admitted as a free state
2. Missouri as added as a slave state
3. Slavery was banned north of the 36-30 line, which was Missouri southern border - the compromise was put to try and keep the balance of free and slave states equal
- But was declared unconstitunal after the Dred Scott Desicion
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Abolition
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The movement to end slavery
- North supported
- South that this was an attack on their way of life
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Compromise of 1850
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- After gold was found in California, the area wanted to become a slave state
- This compromise was alos written by Clay
1. California was admitted as a free stale
2. New Mexico and Utah people were able to vote wether or not that piece of land would be slave or free
3. The Fugitive slave law was passed
4. Slave trade needed in Washington D.C
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Fugitive Slave Law
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Passed in the compromise of 1850
- Said that it was a crime to help runaway slaves
- Said that slaves could be arrested and returned to owners even if they are in a free territory
- North was against
- South thought that it was just their porpertyies being returned to them
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1854 Kansas - Nebraska Act
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- 2 terrorizes Kansas and Nebraska wanted to become a state
- Populor Sovereignty would decided
- Many people went to Kansas to vote even if they did not live there
- This did not follow the Missouri Compromise
- Caused violence
- Kansas become a free state in 1861
- The Republican Party was created to stop the spread of slavery
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Bleeding Kansas
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- A small civil was was caused over the control of Kansas
- Violence stroke throughout pro-slavery and anti - slavery groups all throughout Kansas
- Finally Kansas was admitted as a free state
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Effects of the Compromise of 1850
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- California become free state
- Fugitive slave law was passed
- and terrorizes got to vote
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Battle of Fort Sumter
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- Was the fist battle
- Started the Civil war
- Started when Confederates bombed a Union fort
- Confederaqtes won
- Date : April 1861
- Happened in South Carolina
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Battle of Antietam
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- Was the bloodiest day in U.S History
- More than 6 thousand soldiers killed in one day
- 5 days later Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamtion
- Union won
- Date : September 1862
- Happenede in Maryland
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Battle of Vicksburg
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- Grant’s army trapped confederate’s army at Vicksburg
- Supplies got cut off from Texas to the rest of the south by taking control of the Mississippi River
- Since supplies got cut off confederate troops surrendered
- Split the confederacy in half
- Huge loss fir south
-Date : may to July 1863 - in Mississippi
