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Exam 2 Flashcards

1
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____________ took money from national banks and added them to “pet banks” so that he could kill the national bank per Jackson’s request

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Roger B. Taney

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_____________was always going rouge and vetoed the bank bill. He also didn’t listen to his advisors

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Jackson

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___________ was the 8th president, but when he came into office the economy was dying due to the national bank dying

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Martin Van Buren

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the ____________ was the party that opposed the Democrats; they believed that Andrew Jackson acted like a tyrannical king. They opposed the monarch, which is why they didn’t like Jackson and his party.

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Whigs

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As the Whigs gained more power, ____________ was one of the founders and wanted to run. However, the Whigs didn’t want him and they chose William Henry Harrison

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Henry Clay

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The campaign strategy for the 9th election was ____________. However, Harrison caught pneumonia during inauguration and died a month into office. The Vice president, John Tyler became president

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to give people booze

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There were many ________ in the US after 1820, which were mental health, prison, temperance, education, women’s rights, and abolitionist

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reforms

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the ___________ reform was the movement to try to get people from drinking alcohol. They linked alcohol consumption to abuse and poverty

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temperance

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the _____________ started in Massachusetts. This was when common schools began to surface. These were founded by Horace Mann. Property taxes fund public schools. Other states in the north adopted this model. Literacy rates rose to 94%

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common school movement

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10
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the first Women’s Rights Convention in the US was called _____________

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Seneca Falls, NY Convention

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at the Seneca Falls, NY, Convention, the _____________ was made. This document Altered the Declaration of Independence to make it more inclusive. DSR

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Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions

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The Abolitionist movement was the movement to abolish slavery. It was more of an organized movement, led by ________________.

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William Lloyd Garrison

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William Lloyd Garrison started his own newspaper in 1831, called the _____________.

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Liberator

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In the Liberator, William Lloyd Garrison demanded the _________________, ______________, and ________________ end of slavery.Other people wanted slave owners to get compensation but Garrison thought that this was ridiculous (IUU)

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immediate, unconditional, and universal

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______________hated Garrison. The governor of SC put a bounty on his head.

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Southerners

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Southerners blamed Garrison for _____________. This called Garrison to get lots of national publicity, which allowed him to create the ________________.

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Nat Turner’s rebellion, American Anti-Slavery Society

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17
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_____________Escaped slavery in 1838 and moved from MD to MA. He met up with Garrison and became a major figure in the anti-slavery movement

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Fredrick Douglass

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18
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Americans started to move into ____________ with their enslaved people to grow cotton

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Texas

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_________ was illegal in Mexico, and Texas was owned by Mexico. White Americans in Texas rebelled against the Mexican government

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Slavery

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In the battle of _______________, Texans won, which led to Texas becoming independent. Texas wanted to come into the US as a slave state and they were rejected because then the balance would be unequal

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San Jacinto

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21
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Texas was an ___________________ from 1836-1845

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independent union

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22
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the______________ occurred when there was unclaimed territory that the Mexicans and the US thought was theirs

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border dispute

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23
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the US wanted California because of the ports. _____________ sent Americans into the undisputed territory

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James K Polk

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Mexicans thought this was an invasion. Mexicans were doomed regardless. They decide to attack the US, which starts the _______________

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Mexican-American War

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In the first year of the Mexican-American War, the Americans took _____________ and ____________

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New Mexico and California

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26
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Americans realized that to end the war, they had to take ______________.
This led to the treaty that ended the war.

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Capital of Mexico

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27
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In the treaty of _____________,
Mexico gave up New Mexico and California and recognized the Rio Grande as the border

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Guadalupe Hildalgo 1848

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28
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California and New Mexico were new states in the union, but since parts of them were above and below the Missouri compromise line, there was no clear indication as to whether they would be ______________ states or ______________ states

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free, slave

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29
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______________ was when people get to choose through a vote whether the states want to be free or a slave state

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Popular sovereignty

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30
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Gold is discovered in ___________ which causes large numbers of people to move there and it meets the population minimum to be a state in the union

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California

31
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The ____________ was when the Nebraska territory was divided into 2 territories: Kansas and Nebraska.
It also repealed the 36° 30’.

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Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854

32
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Douglass’s belief was that ___________ would come in as a slave state and ___________ as a free state

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Kansas, Nebraska

33
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act divided the ____________ and eventually destroyed it because of opposition of Northern Whigs. These Northern Whigs formed the ______________ in 1854.

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Whig Party, Republican Party

34
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In 1855 Kansas held ____________. Over 6,000 votes were cast.
The problem was that only 1,500 people in Kansas were registered to vote.

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territorial elections

35
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people from ___________traveled across the border to vote in Kansas to ensure that pro-slavery candidates were elected

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Missouri

36
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Pro-slavery candidates won in___________, and the anti-slavery people were outraged. They could not believe what happened and protested to President Pierce, who said that the results of the election were ok.

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Kansas

37
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The pro-slavery and anti-slavery people were fighting in Kansas. The fighting lasted from 1855-1856 and is called ___________

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Bleeding Kansas

38
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The Pro-slavery representatives elected drew up a pro-slavery constitution in 1857 called ______________.

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Lecompton Constitution.

39
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The Lecompton Constitution was presented to the ______________ but it was rejected.
It was submitted to the voters again n 1858 and rejected again.

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voters of the territory

40
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Kansas did not enter the Union until 1861 and when it did then it was a ___________.

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free state

41
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________________ was nominated by the Democratic Party.
The Republicans nominated John C. Fremont. Buchanan won and became the 15th President.

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James Buchanan

42
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Two days after Buchanan came into office, the Supreme Court ruled in ________________

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Dred Scott v. Sanford.

43
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__________was a slave from Missouri who was owned by an army surgeon, John Emerson, and traveled with his owner to northern states. While in Wisconsin, abolitionists urged Scott to sue for his freedom on the grounds that he was in a state that strictly forbade slavery.

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Scott

44
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The case went through the court systems all the way to the ____________. By this time, Emerson had died and Scott’s new owner was a guy named Sanford.
The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Roger B. Taney, ruled against Scott, stating that Scott was not a citizen and could not bring suit into court.

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the supreme court

45
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Taney also stated that Scott claimed no right to citizenship because he was property and as property he had no rights under the Constitution. This was a major defeat for _____________.

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abolitionists

46
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_____________ was an abolitionist from New England who thought he was an instrument of God to destroy slavery.

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John Brown

47
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In 1859 Brown and 18 others, including his sons, planned to seize control of the arsenal at __________ and start an armed slave revolt in VA. On Oct. 16, 1859, he and his followers took control of the arsenal, but no slaves came to his aid.

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Harper’s Ferry

48
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The only people who showed up to fight Brown were that showed up was the __________ under the command of Col. Robert E. Lee.

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U.S Army

49
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__________ men surrounded Brown’s band and after a short fight, Brown and 8 followers were captured. Ten were killed. Brown and 6 men were hanged.
This event demonstrated to the South that they could no longer live safely in the Union.

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Lee’s

50
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In the election of 1860, the ____________Party split. Northern Democrats chose Stephen A. Douglas.
Southern Democrats chose John C. Breckinridge.
The Republicans chose Abraham Lincoln.

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democratic

51
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The newly formed _____________chose John Bell.
Lincoln won the election, despite only receiving 2/5 of the popular vote.

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Constitutional Union Party

52
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___________ was the driving force behind the acquisition of all of the land.
The US acquired 1 million miles of land in the 1840s. It was the American belief that they were destined by God to take over the entire west. Because God wanted the Americans to do this, it was what led them to take Texas and go to war with Mexico

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Manifest Destiny

53
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The four parts of compromise of 1850 were to allow CA to enter as a ________ state, organize the _________ without restrictions of ________, and abolish the Slave trade in D.C, create a more effective fugitive _________

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Free, mexico territory, slavery, slave law

54
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___________leaves Congress because people did not like the Compromise of 1850 because they thought they were losing out

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Clay

55
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Stephen A Douglass and Jefferson Davis decided to ________ the compromise of 1850. The only change was that Instead of slavery being abolished, slave trade was abolished.

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break up

56
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Between December 1860 and March 1861, ____________ states left the union to form the Confederate states

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seven

57
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The ___________ states originally chose Jefferson Davis as their President, and Montgomery AL as their capital.

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confederate

58
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The Civil War started on April 15th, 1861. Abraham called for 75,000 men to put the rebellion down for 90 days. After he did this, 4 more states left the union which were:

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Virginia, North Carolina, Tennsesee, Arkansas

58
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The South seized everything except ____________. However, the people there were running out of food. Lincoln sent ships there, but the South threatened to attack them. On April 12th, 1861, it eventually fell.

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Ft. Sumner

59
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The border states (states that were deeply divided) were:

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Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri

60
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Winfield Scott was the highest ranking person in the Northern army, and he proposes the ____________plan

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Anaconda

61
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The anaconda plan included putting a __________ on all southern ports, and cutting the south in half by taking over the ____________ river

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Blockade, Missisippi

62
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the South wanted to trade _________overseas for ___________, and Scott’s plan was aimed at preventing that

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Cotton, weapons

63
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In the Battle of ________________, Lincoln’s advisors thought that this was going to be the only battle. The confederates ended up winning and the ______________army retreated back to D.C. This battle proves that the war was going to be long.

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Bull run, Nothern

64
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The battle of _____________ was on September 22nd, 1862. The Confederate army invaded Maryland, a border state, and they wanted Maryland to become a slave state. The Union follows. This victory was strategically a northern victory because they forced the Confederates out of Maryland and back into Virginia.

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Antietam

65
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The __________ was issued 5 days after the Antietam. It stated that all slaves living in the states currently in rebellion would be free on January 1st, 1863

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Emancipation Proclamation

66
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Lincoln worded the emancipation proclamation carefully because he didn’t want the border states to join the Confederacy. However, ___________ slaves were freed because. Lincoln had no power at the time

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no

67
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___________ and ___________ were thinking about the Confederacy, but they would not support the Confederacy, but they would not support the Confederacy because their objective was to preserve slavery. After the Emancipation Proclamation, the war was about slavery

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France and Britain

68
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The Battle of __________ was a northern win, and it was the bloodiest battle in the entire western hemisphere.

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Gettysburg

69
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The south didn’t have as big of an army as the north, so the south had to start fighting a solely _____________ war.

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Defensive

70
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_____________ falls to the North. It was located on the Mississippi River and caused the anaconda plan to really come into effect

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Vicksburg

71
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____________ was captured by the Northern Army, which gave Lincoln a boost of morale to win the election of 1864

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Vicksburg

72
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The ____________ amendment abolished slavery in the U.S. Lee’s Army surrendered a few weeks later

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13th amendment

73
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