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Civil war!

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Manifest Destiny

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Free-Soilers

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Radical Republicans

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Advocated for civil rights for both freedmen women.

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Compromise of 1850

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Popular Soverenighty

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Sectionialism

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Sectionalism is loyalty to one’s own region or section of the country, rather than to the country as a whole.

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Declaration of Causes

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When Southern states succeeded they drafted a docment of causes stating their reasons for leaving the union.n

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Mexican Cession

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Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidago

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Dred Scott v. Sandford 1857

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Raid on Harper’s Ferry

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  • John Brown
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Kansas Nebraska Act

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Popular Soverenighty

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Canning of Charles Sumner

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13th amendment

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Abolished slavery.

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14th amendment

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Equal protections and citizenship for those born on U.S soil. (No state can infringe on this law.) Passed into law over Johnson’s vetoF

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15th amendment

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No one can be denied the right to vote on account of race. (Granted AA men the right to vote.)

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Sharecropping

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A form of coerced servitude in which land owners seed and farm supplies in exchange for a percentage of the harvest.

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Klu Klux Klan

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A white supremacist organization that intimated black folks through burning buildings, lynchings, and control over local politics.

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Black Codes

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Southern black codes prevented Black folks from borrowing money to buy or loan land. Prohibited black folks from testfifying against white people in court. Established segregation in Southern society.

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Compromise of 1877

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  • Democrats agree to let Hayes become president.
  • Republicans agree to remove all federal troops from the South.
    (Seen as the end of reconstruction)
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Ten % plan

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Abraham lincoln’s plan stated that in order for a Southern state to be readmitted into the union they must: have 10% of the electorate pledge loyalty, as well as ratifying the 13th amendmet.

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Abe Lincoln’s assasination

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Lioncoln was assinated by John Wilkes Booth, because of this Andrew Johnson became president.

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Andrew Johnson

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Johnson was a Southern Democrat and white supremacist. He was known to veto a lot of laws and often had clashes with Congress which was predominately republican.

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Freedmens Breau

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Civil Rights Act of 1866

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Bleeding Kansas

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Fugitive Slave Act

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Underground RR

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John Brown

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  • Involoved in bleeding Kansas and the raid on Harpers Ferry
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Emancipation Proclamation

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Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation freed all enslaved people in the confederacy. Also cut off any hope of European involvement. (It DID NOT end slavery in the border states, this was startgetic) Helped enslaved people escape to union lines to serve in the army. (+changed the purpose of the war)

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Uncle Tom Cabin

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Jefferson Davis

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Gettysburg Address

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Speech by Abe Lincoln. To unify the union and protray the struggle agianst slavery as the fufilment of America’s needs founding democratic ideals.

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Reconstruction acts of 1867

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  1. Sent federal troops to the South. 2. Ratify 14th amendment Provisions for universal voting rights (white + black)
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Carpet Bagger

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Red Shirts

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Force Acts

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“The Lost Cause”

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American Party/ “Know-Nothing”

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If the Nativists made a political party. Anti-immigration, Anti-Catholic. Emerged in the 1850s but waned in popularity as the issue of slavery became more dominant.

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Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

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Congress passed the Tenure of Office Act, which prohibited Johnson from removing his cabinet when he did. He was put on trial for impeachment, however it failed by one vote.

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American Woman sufferage Association

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Supported the 15th amendmedment,

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National Sufferage Association

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Did not support the 15th amendment

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Anaconda Plan

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The union would use its naval advantages to blockade the south from receiving supplies, and split the south in half by blocking the Mississppii river.

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North Advantages

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  • 4x the population of the South
  • Had access to the robust navy (controll seas + rivers)
  • Controlled a majority of banks, manfacturing, and railroads.
  • Established central government.
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Southern Advantages

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  • Great Military leaders (Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee)
  • Fought a defensive war.
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Fort Sumter, South Carolina

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Abe Lincoln wanted to provide provision for Fort Sumter he was met with bullets instead.

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King Cotton

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The South had hoped that Europes depedency on Southern cotton would turn into aid from those countries. France and Britian soon realized other sources of cotton.

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