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Secession

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Decision by a state to leave the Union

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Compromise of 1850

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Series of measures hat were intended to settle the disagreements between free states and slave states

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Popular sovereignty

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Idea idea that people living in a territory should make their own decisions, especially the decision to admit slavery

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Stephen A. Douglas

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Senator from Illinois who worked too pass the COmpromise of 1850

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Millard Fillmore

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13th President

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Fugitive SLave Act

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Law that provided for harsh treatment for escaped slaves and for those who helped them

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Underground Railroad

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Secret network for people who hid fugitive slaves who went north for freedom

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Harriet Tubman

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Famous “leader” of the underground railroads

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Author of the anti slavery novel Uncle TOms Cabneth

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Kanas Nebraska Act

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Law that split Nebraska into territories of Nebraska and Kansas and allowed for popular sovereignty there

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John Brown

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Fierce Opponent of slavery who led a raid that killed 5 pro slavery people

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Bleeding Kanas

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Nickname given to the Kanas Territory because of the bloody violence there

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Franklin Pierce

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14th president

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Nativism

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Favoring native born people over immigrants

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Know - Nothing Party

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Political party formed to stop the influence of immigrants

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Free - soil Arty

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Political party formed tot oppose extending slavery in the territories

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Republican PArty

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Police to party formed to oppose extending slavery in the territories

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Horace Greeley

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Newspaper editor who strongly supported the newly formed. Republican Party

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John C Fremont

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Republican candidate in thr 1856 presidential election

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James Buchanan

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15th president

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Dred Scott

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Slave who was briefly taken by his owner into free territory

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Roger B. Taney

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Chief Justice who wrote the ruling in the Dred Scott case

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Abraham Lincon

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President during the civil war

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Freeport Doctrine

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IDEa that any territory could ban slavery by simply refusing to pass laws supporting it

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Harpers Ferry

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Location of federal arsenal that John Brown raided to het guns to arm slaves

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Confederacy

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Confederate states of America formed in 1861 by the southern states that seceded from the union

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Jefferson Davis

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President of the Confederate states of America

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Fort Sumter

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Union fort in Charleston, South Carolina, who’s attack started the war

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Anaconda plan

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Three part Union strategy to win the civil war

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Bull run

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Battle won by the confederate

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Stonewall Jackson

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Confederate General

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George MCClellan

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Union General

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Ulysses s. Grant

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Union General

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Shiloh

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Two day battle in which nearly one fourth of the 10,000 troops were killed, wounded or captured

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Monitor

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Union ironclad ship

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Merrimack

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Confederate ironclad ship

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Robert E Lee

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Confederate general

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Anthem

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Union Victory

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Emancipation Proclamation

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Order issued by Lincoln freeing slaves behind confederate lines

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Habeas Corpus

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Court order that say that a person who is jailed has to appear before the court to determine why he or she is being jailed

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Copperhead

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Northern democrat who advocated making peace with the confederacy during the civil war

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Conscription

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Drafting of civilians to serve in the army

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Fort pillow

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Site of confederate meassace of more than 200 African American war prisoners

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Gettysburg

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Most decisive battle of the war

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Chancellorsville

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Confederate victory in Virginia

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Gettysburg Adress

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Important speech by President Lincon

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Vicksburg

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Union Vicotry in Mississippi

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William Tecumseh SHerman

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Commander of Union troops in Georgia and South Carolina

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Appomattox Court House

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Sire of the confederate surrender

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Income tax

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Tax that takes a percentages of an individuals income

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Clara Barton

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Union Nurse

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