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Vocabulary and Key People Flashcards

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Copperheads

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Peace democrats who opposed the Civil War and wanted to compromise with the South

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Refugee

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Someone displaced by war

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Habeas Corpus

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Legal process that helps ensure government has the right to keep someone in jail

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Free Soil Party

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Party whose slogan was “Free soil, free speech, free labor, & free men”

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Secede

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To leave the Union

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Border ruffians

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An armed pro-slavery supporter who crossed the border from Missouri to vote in Kansas

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Civil war

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Conflicts between citizens of the same country

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Freeport Doctrine

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Lincoln & Douglass debated the issue of slavery; Lincoln gained popularity; Douglass lost public support

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Jefferson Davis

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President of Confederate States of America

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Border State

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State on the border between the North and South

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Martial Law

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Imposition of military power over certain regions on an emergency basis

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Ironclad

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Warships equipped with iron plating for protection

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Emancipation Proclamation

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Lincoln said all slaves were free from rebel-held territories

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Ulysses S. Grant

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Union general who led campaign to take Richmond no matter what

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Scorched earth

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Destroy anything that may be useful to the enemy

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Reconstruction

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The task of rebuilding the former Confederate States and readmitting them to the Union

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Ten Percent Plan

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Lincoln’s Reconstruction plan that called for each state to take an oath of loyalty before creating new state government and constitution

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Wade-Davis Bill

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Congress’ Reconstruction plan that all male, white adult voters pledge loyalty to the Union, state constitutional convention, and no former Confederate leaders could hold office

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Amnesty

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Forgiveness for any crimes committed

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Black codes

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Law designed to help control the newly freed African Americans

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