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Slave rebellion in Southampton, VA in 1831 that
angered southerners
Nat Turner Rebellion
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Split the country in two and disallowed slavery North of a
certain line of latitude
Missouri Compromise
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South Carolina refused to abide by a tariff in 1828 and President Jackson threatens military force to enforce it.
Nullification Crisis
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The idea that a state has more power that the national government
State’s Rights Ideology
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Leader from South Carolina that refused to abide by Tariff
of 1832; former Vice President
John C. Calhoun
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Pamphlet written by John C. Calhoun arguing S.C. had the
right to declare Tariff Null & Void
South Carolina Exposition & Protest
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Document written by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison
that influences John C. Calhoun
VA & KY Resolutions
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Bill passed by U.S. Congress giving President Andrew Jackson authority to use
military force in the Nullification Crisis
Force Bill
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The idea that God wanted Americans to own all land from
Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
Manifest Destiny
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Central argument in Congress that arose when territories
applied for statehood
Expansion of Slavery
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States entered either as slave or free would throw this off
Balance of Power - Congress
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Proposal in Congress to disallow slavery in the lands acquired in Mexican Cession
Wilmot Proviso
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New Mexico established, Popular sovereignty New
Mexico, California free state, fugitive slave law, slave trade
abolished in D.C.
Compromise of 1850
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States get to determine for themselves through elections
if they will be slave or free
Popular Sovereignty
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The purpose of the Civil War expanded to including freeing
the slaves in the?
Emancipation Proclamation
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Repealed Missouri Compromise of 1820 and
granted popular sovereignty to states to determine slave issue
Kansas-Nebraska Act
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States get to determine for themselves through elections
if they will be slave or free
Popular Sovereignty
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An example of how popular sovereignty failed to settle
issue of expansion of slavery
Bleeding Kansas
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Supreme Court case that determined that no African American – even if free- could not be considered a citizen. Further, the
court determined that popular sovereignty and the Missouri Compromise of 1820
were unconstitutional.
Dred Scott Case
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An attempt to capture the federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, VA to arm slaves for
rebellion
John Brown’s Raid
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Incident that caused South Carolina to secede from the
Unites States in 1861
Election of Abraham Lincoln
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“With malice toward none, with charity for all.” Lincoln
expressed need to rebuild and not punish south.
2nd Inaugural Address
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“A new birth of freedom.”Speech dedicating a cemetery
on the sight of a battlefield.
Gettysburg Address
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Presidential emergency powers to deny possible spies
right to go before a court
Suspension of Habeas Corpus
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General of Army of the Potomac; accepted surrender
of Gen. Robert E. Lee
Ulysses S. Grant
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Confederate General; won Battle of Bull Run; Died in battle shot by his own men
accidentally.
“Stonewall” Jackson
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General of the Army of Northern Virginia;
Surrendered to General U.S. Grant
Robert E. Lee
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Destroyed Atlanta and went on March to the Sea to
Savannah destroying South
William T. Sherman
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President of the Confederate States of America (CSA). President for the South.
Jefferson Davis
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Bloodiest single day battle in the Civil War. Lee’s failure to win it encouraged Lincoln to
issue the Emancipation Proclamation
Antietam
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Freed all slaves in the South to hurt the southern war effort; political strategy
Emancipation Proclamation
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United States split in two and the North gets control of the
Mississippi River
Vicksburg
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Turning point of the Civil War. Last time the South would try to attack in the North. South would
not recover from loses.
Gettysburg
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“A new birth of freedom.”Speech dedicating a cemetery
on the sight of a battlefield.
Gettysburg Address
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Vitally important center of Confederate manufacturing
and railway traffic attacked by Northern Army
Battle for Atlanta
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After Atlanta burned to the ground, route taken to Atlantic destroying rail, roads, bridges,
crops, livestock
March to the Sea
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One very important advantage the South had over the North
was?
Skill of Southern Generals
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Plans to reconstruct by Lincoln and Johnson to
readmit southern states as fast as possible
Presidential Reconstruction
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Plans to reconstruct by Congress that required
southern states to ratify 13th, 14th, 15th amendments and
reapply to re-enter
Radical Republican Reconstruction
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Considered “Black Harvard”; established in Atlanta, GA to train African Americans in
Ministry & Education
Morehouse College
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Helped African Americans with food, clothing, jobs, medicine,
medical care
Freedman’s Bureau
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Laws passed to control freed Africans; deprived them of
voting; forced freed men into forced labor
Black Codes
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Secret society formed to terrorize freed Africans; Murder,
arson, threats to keep them from voting
Ku Klux Klan
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Congress can remove the President from office for “High
crimes & Misdemeanors”
Impeachment