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Social Studies Civil War Test 1 Flashcards

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Sectionalism

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Loyalty to the past of country where a person lives

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States Rights

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Belief that states should have the final say regarding gov’t

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Secede

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Break away

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Abolish

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Do away with -outlaw

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Missouri compromise

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Compromise negotiated by Henry Clay to keep the valence of free and slave states

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Compromise of 1850

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States that California would enter the union as a free state. Adam territories were permitted to vote on slavery

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Fugitive slave law

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Part of compromise of 1850

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Abolitionists

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People who wanted to do away w/ slavery

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Underground Railroad

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A chain of homes and farms where escaping slaves could hide

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The liberator

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An anti slavery newspaper published in 1832

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Harriet Tubman

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An escaped slave who worked on the Underground Railroad

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Sojourner Truth

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A freed slave who was an abolitionist and advocate for women’s rights

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Fredrick Douglass

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A freed black slave who spoke out against slavery

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Uncle Toms cabin

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A novel showing the evils of slavery

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Kansas -Nebraska act

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Law that allowed voters in Kansas and Nebraska territories to vote on weather or not they wanted slavery

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“Bleeding Kansas “

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Describes the fighting that went on in Kansas after Kansas and Nebraska law passed .

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Dread Scott decision

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Supreme Court decision that declared him as property

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John brown

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A radical abolition from Kansas

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Fort Sumter

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Union fort in South Carolina

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Jefferson Davis

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Prez of confederacy

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Confederate states of America

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States in the southern the that seceded from the union

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Border States

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Those states on the boundary between the North and South

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Robert E. Lee

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Commander of confederate army

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Ulysses S.Grant

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Head of the Union army

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Blockade

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Preventing ships from entering or leaving a port

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Cotton diplomacy

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The south counted on money from the sale on of cotton England

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