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HIstory Final Flashcards

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copperheads

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peace democrat who wanted to end civil war and compromise with the south

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refugee

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displaced by war

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Habeas Corpus

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a court order that requires police to bring a person to court to explain why the are holding them

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free soil party

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Democrat party that opposed Lincoln’s war effort

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Secede

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to separate or detach from

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Border Ruffians

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armed pro-slavery supporters

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Civil War

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US war between the southern confederacy and the northern union over slave ownership

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Freeport Doctrine

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Created by Stephen Douglas, declaring the best way to abolish slavery is by popular sovereignty

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Jefferson Davis

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President of the Confederacy

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Border State

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State between Union and Confederacy that is not a free or slave supported, sought by lincoln

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Martial Law

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impose total control

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Ironclad

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a warship with iron plating for protection

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Emancipation Proclamation

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decree freeing enslaved people in those parts of the confederacy

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Ulysses S. Grant

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leader of the union against the confederacy

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Scorched Earth

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path of destruction left by union soldiers after invading Atlanta

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Reconstruction

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rebuilding after the civil war

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ten percent plan

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Lincoln’s plan that ten percent of southern voters must pledge loyalty to the union

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Wade-Davis bill

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requires 50% southern voters to pledge loyalty to the union and that past confederate soldiers or leaders could not hold office in the union

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Amnesty

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pardon for all crimes

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Black Codes

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slave laws governing rights for freed blacks

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What are the causes of the civil war?

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The fight between slave states and free states

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Why was the minnie ball significant?

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  • more damage
  • more accurate
  • further distance
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Why was the civil war a modern war?

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Army used new tactics and modern weapons

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Why did people believe the south would win?

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They were fighting on their own land and it was a defensive war

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How was the railroad a weapon for Lincoln?

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Easy transportation of troops and supplies

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How did the telegraph transform the war?

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Fast and direct communication on the battlefield

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How did cameras influence the war?

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Showed the public the aftermath of the war.

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How did the north pay for the war?

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Raise taxes, print money, and borrow

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How did women affect the war effort?

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  • Spies
  • Nurses
  • book keepers
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Describe the medical treatments of the civil war?

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  • unsanitary
  • amputations
  • first ambulances
  • Clara Barton invents triage
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Stephen Douglas

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  • Democrat from Illinois
  • Freeport Doctrine
  • believed in slave freedom
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Clara Barton

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  • American Red Cross
  • improve war medical conditions
  • Invent triage
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Kansas Nebraska Act

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  • created by Stephen douglas
  • Settle slavery in Territories
  • bleeding kansas
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Robert E. Lee

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  • confederate commander
  • defeated in atlanta
  • West point graduate
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John Brown

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  • crazed abolisionist
  • attacked federal arsenal
  • executed
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Battle of Shiloh

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  • first major western battle of the civil war
  • fought in mississippi
  • of 23,000 casulaties
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Republican Party

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  • popular in north
  • back lincoln
  • anti slavery whigs
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Battle of Antietnam

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  • bloodiest day
  • lee retreats
  • union win
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Abraham Lincoln

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  • 14th US republican president
  • fought for antislavery
  • assassinated by john Wilkes booth
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Battle of gettysburg

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  • july 1st-4th 1863
  • union victory
  • second invasion attempt
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Andrew Johnson

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  • took over for lincoln
  • initiate wade-Davis bill
  • disapproved of equal rights

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