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Harriet Beecher Stowe
author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Nicholas Biddle
37 year old philadelphia businesmann become president of the National band in 1832
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Union Blockade
entire sout was blocked off my North Navy ships
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hunley
primitive submarine as a southern attempt to defeat the blockade
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Blockade runners
smuggling goods through the blockade
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battle of antiethan
sep 17 1862 12,00 north and 10,000 south casualities
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battler of gettysburn
23,000 north & 22,500 south casualities
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batlle of Chattanooga
- union forces tooke over the city
- crontrolled Souths major rail road hub
- Grants pop. and staus rises
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battle of chancellorsville
- regarded as last major CSA victory
- Gen Joe Hooker bs Gen Robert E. Lee
- is what led to hookers replacment by Ulyssess Grant
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seige of Vicksburg
- may 18-july 4 1863
- morth to controll the Mississippi river cut off tx, ar, la
- ran of of food, bad water most pop succumbed toillness cuty surreneds july 4
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Gen william T sherman
marc to the sea Alanta to savannah destroyed everything along the way
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John Wikes Booth
confedrate sympathizer assassined Lincoln
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ten percent plan
a stat is readmitted into the union if 10% of its pop took a loyalty oath ot the US
LA & AR remided by 1864
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wade davis plan
50% of pop must take loyalty oath and renounce slavery
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Andrew Johnson
- no expected him to be president (choses and VP for politican rasons)
- contnuation of lincolns politys (leniency & 10% plan)
- increases tensions in congress
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Black codes
plethora of laws that restricted civil liberties of freed slaves
designed to keep african americans in a condition of slavery
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radical republicans
- punish the south led by Taddeus Stevens and Charles Sunner
- suffrage for blacks federal protection of former slaves
- gained power in congress by 1867
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13 amendment
abolished slavery
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Freemans Bureau
- to help intergrated former slaves into society
- (schools, churchs, 40 acres and a mule,)
- Johns agrees with it but kills it bc of tension with congress
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civil rights act of 1866
nullifed black coded
gaurantees basic right for former slaves
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14 amendment
all bersons born or naturalies in the us are citzens of the US and that no state could abridge their rights w/o due process of law or deny tem equal protection of law
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radical reconstruction
- congress now has the ability to render the president powerless
- new phase of reconstruction
- militayr rule: the army will occupy te south
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tenure of office act
the president cannot remove caninet member w/o senate approval
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Ulysses S. grant
- elected wi much fan fare (war hero)
- better militay leader than pliticains
- alcholism affect his performance
- his administrason was rocked by sancdal
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caroet baggers
northern opportunist who came south to reap the spoils ov victory
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scalawags
Southern wo sided with N for personal gain
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Ku Klux Klan
1866 former CSA soldiers in pulaski Tn creatd a fraternity to pull pranks against te US troops in S quickly moved to vilance againss soldiers, balcks, carpetbaggers and scalawags
"Family Circle"
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force acts
outlawed KKK but was too late
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15 amendment
states cannot denay male citzed te right to vote bc of race, color or previouse condition of servitude
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the new old south
attempt to rvives the antebllum south
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Share cropping
blacks and poor whites are kept perpetually indebted
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Jim Crow society
- social structe in which blacks are subornated to wites
- jews an hispanics granted whiteness in most of S
- attmept to use chines as new form of cheap labor
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plessy vs ferguson
the supreme court ruled seprate but equal was contitution
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era of good fellings
after the war of 1812
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2nd bank of the US.
charted for 20 years headquarted in philadelpia
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missouri compromise
- main enters as free states; missouri as a slave state
- no slaver states allowed north of 36-30
- jefferson this is the deth knell of the nuion
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nonroe doctrine
- european nation sould sotp attempts as colonizing the western hemisphere and leave the americnas alone existing colonies would be grandfattered
- NO ONE CARED
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election of 1860
- demo. party slpits N - stephen A douglas & s- John c breckenridge
- new repubilcan party & constituion Union party
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Reblican party
new in 1860 elevtion atracted old whigs
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constituional union party
- moderation with north and south
- John Bell was their candiated in 1860 election
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James Buchana
a do nothing president merely admonished SC let the new president deal wiht it
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John C. Breckenridge
the souths democratic candiate for the 1860 election
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Stephen Douglas
the Norths democratic candiate for the 1860 election
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John Bell
Constiutional Union Party candate for the 1860 election
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battle of fort Sumter
conferates surronuned the fort Union troops refused to surrender it to te new gov. the confedrates began shelling and the US were not prepared us troopps surrendered after 30 hours
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Abraham Lincoln
- born to poverty ony 18 months in school self taught
- frontier lawyer gained pop after the lincon douglas debates.
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seccession covention
feb 7 1861 adopted a prvisional constitution Montogmery AL was cop. Jefferson davis president and alxander stephen was VP
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west virgina
the wester parto fo VA sceddes from state becoming WV
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Jefferson Davis
born to wealth, highly educated mexican american war hero states right advoctate
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Bureau of internatal revenue
way to finaning the war in north
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Green back
was birth of paper money
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Legal tender act
$450,000,000 in paper money
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first battle of bull run
- Manassa VA pickiners came for enterainment
- Irwin Mcdowell vs Gen PGT Beauregaurd
- soutern reinforcements led to a N. rout
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Wilomt proviso
no clavery in territories cnquered form mexico
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Kansas Nevraska crises
- bleeding kansas
- brooks sumner incedent
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Republican party
- 1852 weaked due to sectional tension
- decline and death of kig and know nothing parites
- N cration of republican party grows quick in N not recognized in S
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Millared filimore
which 1856 election
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transcontinetal rail road
rail like linking east wit ports in claifornia for trade wit aisa
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dread soct case
- moved to minnesota a free state witha master the owner never freeed ime and died quesiton if a slave is moved to a free stae will be free?
- supreme court citing fugitive slave law slaves are not freed by setting foot in free slave case thrown out
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fugitive slave law
slave are not freed by setiting foot in a free state
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Lincoln douglas debates
steben douglas vs abraham lincoln lssues: lincoln to souglas is slavery wrong and should candidates take moral stance agains the issue is democray and the issuer of slavery is to be determined by te ppl doglas win re-eleved to te ssenate linconl proelled into the nation spotlight
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John brown
claimed te lord sent hime to destroy slavery
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Harpers Ferry raid
VA with 21 men took plantion onwers hostage killed 4 ppl called on slave rebels
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Iron plow
made praking up the soil eaiser
made in North
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mechanical reaper
invented ny Cyrus Mcormick in virgina replaced need to sow by hand 2 ppl can do 12 acres in one day
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erie canal
tied trade bw the north and west
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Gail Borden
condensed milk
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Lowell Idea
- in walth, MA francis C Lwell: testilemills himre teeange girls during winter as cheap labor
- school and work in winter home for sume like dorms with strick rules
- idea failed due to cheap labor
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Nativism
anit-immiragion anat=gonism towrd immigrant jews and ctholics
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Know nothing party
was nativism
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sotheren society
- dived bw black an white
- not all whites are slave holders poor whites had no slaves or land
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free blacks
- by manumission or self purchase
- subjed to legal restrictions cannot testify agains whites in court
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war of 1812
- pres James madioson
- briths did not want war wit US but madison ask for war. declared war bs of neutral rights, frontier indian attacks, desire to take ovver canada, natinonal honor
- finaced with te bank of US. miliaty was in bad shape hadINdian uprisings,no on won war in end was a draw with Treay of Ghent
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John c Calhoun
- ainte frealist vestige
- states rigts over nationlism
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Henry clay
- americn stystem boost industry to lessen dependence on european importnas
- taxes to invrease revenue
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national road
1st federall funed interstate road network
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canal fever
conned rual communited wit sitys in the NE
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Ainti msonic party
against secret societyies
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James monroe
vs rufus king in 1816
runs unoppes in 1820
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trail of tears
indians were forced to leave their land an move to new lands
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spoils system
practive of reqrding loyal party menbers with jobs in gov
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indian removal act of 1830
a bill saying indains must leave
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Santa Anna
president of mexico in 1834 that lead attack during texas revolution
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Sam Houston
leader for the texas side in the texas revolution
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BATTLE OF SAN JACINTO
a 15 min battle were texans captured Santa Anna and freed the men he captured
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Stephen F. Austin
was one o the first new wave of american land agents in texas selling land at almost no cost
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compromist of 1850
Calfirna be a free state
- the rest of mexican cession be dived into new mexico and utha w/ slavery
- abloist slave trade in columbia but not slavery
- strickter laws to reclaim run away slaves
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bleeding kansas
a politcal race to decide if kansas was to be a free or slave state
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Lecompton
a state constitution for KA wrote in lacompton that made slavery legall
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Charles Sumner
republican senator gave the "crime agains kansas speech"
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presont brooks
memer of congress form SC was pissed Sumner insulted him and his state and a few days later went up to sumner and just started beating the shit out of him sout made him a hero
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emancipation proclamation
freed slaves
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