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Civil War Vocabulary Flashcards

1
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Armory

A

Storehouse for weapons

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Assimilate

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Adopt the manner and language of a country

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3
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Bleeding Kansas

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Violent conflicts between settlers (200 died)

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Blockade-runners

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Fast southern ships

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5
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Border states

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States immediately north of the confederation

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Clipper

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Quick tail boat

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Commander

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Seize or take over property

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Compromise of 1850

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  1. CA free
  2. NM &UT popular sovereignty
  3. Pay Texas (for NM)
  4. D.C ends slave trade & keeps slavery
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Confederacy

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The group of states that has seceded form the United States

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Conscription

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Mandatory military service (drafting)

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Copperheads

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Peace democrats

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Cotton gin

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Eli whitney’s engine for removing seeds from cotton

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13
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Discrimination

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Mistreatment based on race sex or religion

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Dred Scott decision

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Saves have to legal rights

Slaver are property

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15
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Emancipation

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Free

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16
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Emancipation proclamation

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January 1, 1863 : presidential deceleration naming all slaves in seceded states “free forever”

17
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Free-spoil party

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Free soil speech labor and men

18
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Fugitive

A

A run away from the law.

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Habeas corpus

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Court order trial before jail

20
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Immigrant

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Person that comes from another country

21
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Ironclad

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Iron-plated ship

22
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Kansas-Nebraska act

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Popular sovereignty for slaves issue in KS and NE

23
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Labor union

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Workers organized to improve working conditions

24
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Martial law

A

Military rules with suspended rights and freedoms

25
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Nativist

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Someone who distrusts mistreats immigrants

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Oppression

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Feeling weighed down by unfair treatments

27
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Patent

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Legal right to make use or sell on invention

28
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Popular sovereignty

A

Rule by the people

29
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Raid on harpers ferry

A

John brown and his followers attempt to steal weapons from a federal armory and start a slave revolution

30
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Rebels

A

Confederation army

31
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Republican

A

Party of Lincoln;keep slavery out of the territories

32
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Royalty

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Payment for use of a patented product

33
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Abolitionist

A

People who want to end slavery

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