Test 4 Flashcards
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Know- nothing party
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- 1850’s
- against slavery
- against Immigrants
- against Catholics
- nativists
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Kansas Nebraska Act
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- 1854
- pop sovereignty
- conflicted w/ Missouri compromise
- pro & anti slavery problems
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Bleeding Kansas
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- durjg Kansas Nebraska act
- 1854
- violence during Kansas Nebraska act
- pro slavery period flooded Kansas
- wanting to win pop sovereignty
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John Brown
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- abolitionist
- violent
- 1858 & 59
- actions under will of god
- small army of 21 people
- raided harpers ferry
- trying to get supplies for sal w rebellion
- West Virginia
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Election of 1856
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Democrats- bucanham Republican- Fremont Know. Nothing's--Fillmore - first time running for president - democrats won do to support of pop sov.
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Dred Scott Decision
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- 1857
- dred Scott: slave lived w/ owner in free state
Then returned to Slave state - claimed he had rights to emancipation
- Supreme Court
- court decided no black should receive citizenship
- couldnt petition for freedom
- Illinois, Missouri, US
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Lecompton constitution
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- slavery allowed
- 1858
- males to vote
- Kansas constitution
- rejected
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Lincoln Douglas Debate
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- 1858
- Lincoln & Stephen Douglas
- Illinois
- seat of senate
- Douglas liked pop sovereignty
- Lincoln tried to make seem he supported dred Scott decision
- bashed eachother
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Election of 1860
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- N democrat: Stephen Douglas ( pop. Sov, okay w/ slavery)
- S democrat - Breckinridge as vice ( pro- slavey, slaves are property)
- republicans- Lincoln ( free soil, Whigs, abolitionist )
- const. Union- bell ( Whigs, American party, nativists)
- s didn’t even put Lincoln on ballot
- Lincoln won electoral votes but not popular
- 7 states seceded after this
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Secession
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- sc
- Alabama
- Florida
- Georgia
- Mississippi
- Louisiana
- Texas
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Fort Sumter
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- 1861
- Charleston harbor
- Lincoln sending food to fort
- s raided the fort and room it over
- Lincoln wanted men to go down there and take it over
- s heard this and wAs outraged
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Battle of bull run
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- 1861
- union marched to attack confederate
- s was very defensive
- sent union running back to Washington
- manassas Virginia
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Anaconda plan
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- Winfield Scott
- 1861
- n trying to split S
- blockade around S
- no trade coming in
- N & W section
- trying to shut down economy
- total war
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Radical republicans
Copperheads
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- extreme republicans
- strong about slavery & equality
- anti- war
- peace makers
- wanted peace for all
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War in the West
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- along Mississippi
- cut off trade
- surrounding the S
- cut off states like Arkansas and Nebraska
