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Unit 2 Flashcards

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What was the purpose of compromises like the Missouri Compromise?

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Stop slavery from spreading

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2
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when people vote directly on the issue of slavery, it was called

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popular sovereignty

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3
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the Dred Scott decision said that

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Slaves were not free in free states

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South Carolinas first attempt to secede was over the issue of:

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tariff of “abominations”

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What principle did South Carolina use to justify secession at the start of the Civil war?

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State’s rights

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What was the result of the Emancipation Proclamation?

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The goal of the war changed to ending slavery

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the importance of the Battle of Gettysburg was

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The battle was a turning point in the war

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President Lincoln’s reconstruction plans after the war included

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Kind or lenient treatment of the South

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9
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What did the 14th Amendment accomplish?

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Gave African Americans citizenship

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10
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What is the purpose of the literacy test?

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Prevents African Americans from voting

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The impact of the Black codes was to

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Restrict freedom of former slaves

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12
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The result of tenant farming and sharecropping was

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Economic servitude of former slaves

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What was the result of the South’s attack on Fort Sumter?

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The South won support for its cause

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Whose plan for Reconstruction did Andrew Johnson support?

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Abraham Lincolns plan

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Who helped President Lincoln organize the first African American regime?

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Frederick Douglass

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Who was the abolitionist who tried to arm a slave rebellion at Harper’s Ferry?

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John Brown

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17
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How did white Southerners get around the literacy test and the poll tax?

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Grandfather clause

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18
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How did the Radical Republicans respond to Andrew Johnson’s Reconstruction Plan?

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By starting the impeachment process

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19
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Union general who marched through Georgia burning everything in his path:

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William Sherman

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20
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Organization set up to help former slaves adjust to being free

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Freedmans Bureau

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21
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North or South: Who had more cash in the bank?

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North

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22
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North or South: Strong military leadership

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South

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23
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North or South: Larger population

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North

24
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North or South: Fighting a defensive war

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South

25
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North or South: More railroads

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North

26
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North or South: Strong civilian or political leadership

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North

27
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Fighting to preserve way of life

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South

28
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Greater ability to replace soldiers and supplies

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NOrth

29
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Book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe arousing anti-slavery sentiment in the North:

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin

30
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Taking states out of the Union

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Secession

31
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Network of sympathizers who helped thousands of enslaved persons flee north

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Underground Railroad

32
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California entered as a free state, rest of the territories in Mexican Cession by election

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Compromise of 1850

33
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First state to cede from the Union

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South Carolina

34
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State where the Confederate capital was established

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Virginia

35
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Site of John Browns raid that was a turning point for the South

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Harper’s Ferry

36
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Rebellion (synonym)

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Insurrection

37
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Abolished slavery

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13th amendment

38
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Rebuilding the South

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Reconstruction

39
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Laws in the South making segregation legal

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Jim Crow laws

40
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One of the North’s goals; to cut off trade along the east

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blockade

41
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Union General who became Supreme Commander of Northern troops in 1864

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Ulysses S. Grant

42
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President of the Confederacy

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Jefferson Davis

43
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Conductor of the Underground Railroad

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Harriet Tubman

44
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Commander of all Southern forces

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Robert E. Lee

45
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Author of the Gettysburg address

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Abraham Lincoln

46
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Bloodiest day of the war; Lincoln announced the Emancipation Proclamation

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Antietam

47
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Surrender here starts the War

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Fort Sumter

48
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North controls the Mississippi River with this win

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Vicksburg

49
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First major battle, South won

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Bull Run

50
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Lee surrendered here

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Appomattox

51
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Southerner who helped Radicals during Reconstruction

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scalawag

52
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Owner of the land provides everything needed to be planted; worker receives a percentage of crop

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sharecropping

53
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owner rents out land, worker provides everything else

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Tenant farming

54
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Northerners who came South and took advantage of conditions in the South after the war

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Carpet baggers

55
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Payment required to vote

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poll tax

US History 11th (2 decks)

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