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U.S. History Unit 1 Flashcards

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  1. Free Soil Party
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The people who supported the Wilmot Proviso

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  1. Wilmington Proviso
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David Wilmot proposed a law saying “neither slaver nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any lands won from Mexico.

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  1. Popular Sovereignty
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A policy stating that voters in a territory, not congress, have the right to choose if slavery would be allowed there or not.

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  1. Secede
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Break away from the union

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  1. Compromise of 1850
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A way to keep the North and South together.

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  1. Fugitive Slave Act
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Citizens who help slaves runaway can be fined or imprisoned

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  1. Personal Liberty Laws
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Nullified fugitive slave act and allowed for the arrests of people who catch slaves for kidnapping.

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  1. Underground Railroad
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A loosely organized path that helped slaves escape captivity.

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  1. Harriet Tubman
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A conductor of the Underground Railroad. The main face of the Underground Railroad.

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  1. Harriet Beecher Stowe
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The author of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”, a condemnation of slavery.

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  1. Kansas-Nebraska Act
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The official splitting of Kansas and Nebraska

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  1. John Brown
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New York abolitionist

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  1. Bleeding Kansas
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The common known name of Kansas because of all of the fights going on.

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  1. Know-Nothings
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Anti-immigrant movement, whenever asked about nativist organization, they responded with “we know nothing”

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  1. Republican Party
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The rise of a new party as a collection of old parties. Mostly represented opposition to slavery.

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  1. Dred Scott
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Missouri slave who sued for his freedom.

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  1. Roger B. Taney
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Chief Justice while Dred Scott sued.

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  1. Abraham Lincoln
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16th president of US

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  1. Stephen A. Douglas
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Illinois politician who ran for president against Lincoln

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  1. Harper’s Ferry
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Place in Virginia where John brown and friends went to destroy slavery.

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  1. Jefferson Davis
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Convinced congress to adopt resolutions restricting federal control over slavery in the territories.

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  1. John C. Beckonridge
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Committed to spreading slavery.

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  1. Confederate States of America
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7 seceding states 
Texas
Louisiana
Mississippi
Alabama 
Georgia
Florida
South Carolina
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  1. Crittenden Compromise
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John Crittenden proposed a compromise of allowing all states south of the Missouri compromise to be slave states.

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  1. Fort Sumter
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1 of 4 remaining forts in control of the Union.

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  1. Blockade
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Military tactic in which a navy prevents vessels from entering or leaving its enemy’s ports

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  1. Robert E. Lee
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Confederate war leader

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  1. Anaconda Plan
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Union war strategy. Coil around enemies like a snake.

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  1. Border State
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Missouri, Kentucky, Delaware, Maryland

Part of union. Allow slavery,but fight for north.

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  1. Stonewall Jackson
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Won first battle for confederates. Won the battle of bull run/mannassa

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  1. George B. McClellan
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The replacement for General Irvin McDowell

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  1. Ulysses S. Grant
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Union army general

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  1. Shiloh
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Southwest Tennessee and home of huge civil war battle

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  1. Contraband
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Captured war supplies

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  1. Antietam
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Battle of Antietam was called the bloodiest single day of the civil war

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  1. Emancipation Proclamation
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Military decree, freed enslaved people in states that are still in rebellion. Did not apply to the union or loyal border states. September 22, 1862.

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  1. 54th Massachusetts Regiment
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Full black Union army. Not slaves

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  1. 13th Amendment
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Outlaw slavery in the United States

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  1. John Wilkes Booth
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The man who assassinated Abe Lincoln on April 14th

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  1. Matthew Brady
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A photographer and journalist who pictured “The Dead at Anitetam”

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  1. Land Grant College Act
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Gave money from the sale of public lands to states for the establishment of universities that taught “agricultural and mechanical arts”

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  1. Reconstruction
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Program implemented by the federal government between 1865 and 1877 to repair civil war damage and restore southern states to the union.

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  1. Radical Republican
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Congressmen who advocated full citizenship for African Americans along with a harsh reconstruction policy for the South.

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  1. Freedman’s Bureau
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Federal agency designed to aid freed slaves and poor white farmers in the south after the Civil War

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  1. Black Code
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Laws that restricted African Americans’ rights and opportunities

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  1. Civil Rights Act of 1866
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Law that established federal guarantees of civil rights for all citizens

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  1. 14th Amendment
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1868 constitutional amendment which defined citizenship and guaranteed citizens equal protection under the law

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  1. Impeach
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Accusation against a public official of wrong doing in office.

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  1. 15th Amendment
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1870 constitutional amendment that guaranteed voting rights regardless of race or previous condition of servitude. Still NO women vote.

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  1. Scalawag
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Negative term for a white who supported the Republican Party after the civil war

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  1. Carpetbaggers
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Negative term for northerners who moved to south after the civil war

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  1. Segregation
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Forced separation, most of the times by race

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  1. Integration
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Process of bringing people of different races, religions, and social classes together.

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  1. Sharecropping
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System in which a farmer tended a portion of a planter’s land in return for a share of the crop

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  1. Tenant farming
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System when farmer pays a landowner to use his land for crops.

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  1. Ku Klux Klan
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Extreme racist group towards African Americans

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  1. Enforcement acts
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1870 and 1871 laws that made it a federal offense to interfere with w citizens right to vote.

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  1. Redeemer
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Politicians who aimed to repair/redeem the South

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  1. Rutherford B. Hayes
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1876 election candidate, Ohio native, republican

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  1. Compromise of 1877
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Hayes was elected president, in return for removing troops from the south, appoint a southern congressman to a powerful cabinet position, and south was guaranteed subsidies to repair railroads and improve ports.

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  1. Entrepreneur
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  1. Protective tariff
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  1. Laissez faire
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  1. Patent
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  1. Thomas Edison
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  1. Bessemer process
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  1. Time zone
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  1. Mass production
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