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| What did Wilmot Proviso say about slavery? |
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| Must be banned in any territory acquired from Mexico |
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| What did the Calhoun resolution say about slavery? |
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| couldn't be banned until a territory became a state |
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| What was the greatest spur to American Settlement of CA? |
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| Why did the South resist the admission of CA as a state? |
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| feared loss of power in the senate |
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| What were the provisions of the compromise of 1850? |
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| admission of CA as a free state, abolition of slave trade in D.C., organization of New Mexico territory without reference to slavery |
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| According to Daniel Webster, why was the debate over slavery in the new territories needless? |
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| climate of new territories cannot support slavery |
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| Which worsened provision of the Compromise of 1850 actually worsened tensions between the north and the south? |
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| What was the most effective tool for propaganda? |
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| why was the Kansas- Nebraska Act introduced? |
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| insure that the transcontinental railroad would benefit Illinois |
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| What party became the real sucessor to the Whig party? |
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| Who was responsible for the sack of Lawrence? |
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| What was the basic position of the freeport Doctrine? |
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| territories can prohibit slavery by refusing to adopt laws that establish it |
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| According to Lincoln, what was at the heart of his debate with Douglas? |
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| the immorality of slavery |
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| What event caused the lower south to secede? |
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| What event caused the upper south to secede? |
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| Lincoln's call for troops |
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| What party's slogan was "free soil, free speech, free labor and free men"? |
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| What federal arsenal was attacked in 1859 in hopes of sparking a slave revolt? |
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| what party was created in 1860 by conservative northerners and southerners who wanted to preserve the union? |
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| THe constitutional union party |
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| Where was the first shot fired in the civil war? |
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| fanatical antislavery terrorist |
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| Last democratic, procompromise president |
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| president of the confederate states of america |
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| Illinois senator who scrapped the missouri compromise to benefit his state |
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| war hero and the first republican canidate for president |
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| first republican president |
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| democratic president who supported compromise on slavery |
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| supreme court chief justice who denied that blacks had the righht of citizenship |
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| war hero and antislavery president who died in office at a crucial time |
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| constitutinal union canidate in the crucial election of 1860 |
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| southern democratic canidate in the crucial election of 1860 |
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| southerner who attacked a northerner in the senate chamber |
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| failed, last ditch compromise to save the union |
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| former slave who was denied rights as a citizen |
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| acceptance of slavery in the south, rejection of slavery in the territories |
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| tanti-immigrant, antiCatholic |
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| belief that each territory can decide on the status of slavery within its borders |
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| the central issue that sparked the civil war |
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| the south's advantage during th civil war |
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| superiority military leadership |
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| the south's strategy for victory |
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| to fight a defensive war in order to protect home and family from invading forces |
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| the battle that made the north realize the civil war would not be quickly over |
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| ended the age of wooden ships |
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| significance of the clash between the Monitor and the Merrimic |
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| first clear cut defeat of the army of northern Virginia |
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| why did the north want to capture the Mississippi river? |
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| they knew it would split the confederacy in two and it would provide for northern farmers in the midwest a needed outlet for thier products |
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| began because New York immigrants refused to be drafted by using violent physical force |
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| general who left the army because of alleged drunkiness |
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| slave states that didnt secede from the union (MO,KY,MD,DE) |
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| southern sympathizers in the north |
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| the battle of Cold Harboar called "Grant's slaughter Pen" |
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| reason grant continued to fight after the significant losses in the eastern campaigns of 1864-1865 |
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| he knew there were plenty of soldiers from the north to repalce his loss, but not in the south |
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| what insured Lincoln's reelection of 1864? |
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| the fall of Atlanta to Sherman |
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| Lincoln's speech to dedicate the cemetary for the fallen soldiers |
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| the drafting or compulsory enrollment of men into the military |
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| bloodiest day of the civil war |
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| last ditch effort by the confederates to win at Gettysburg |
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| bloodiest war in all of American history |
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| Scott's plan to slowly cutoff the confederacy by blockading the southern and eastern coasts, seizing control of the MS river to break the confederacy in two and strike from all sides at once |
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| army of northern virginia |
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| delayed the union advance led by Joseph E. Johnson |
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| Mcdowell rook raw recruits and turned them into an impressive force |
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| plan devised by Sherman to hasten the end of the war; he marched his troops 300 miles to the savannah coast |
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| confederate ironclad ship |
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| one of the brilliant campaigns of the war led by McClellen to capture Richmond |
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| 50,000 casualties and the end of the south's ability to launch a major offensive |
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| costly Union victory, Grant got caught napping, it cost him a lot of soldiers and a victory |
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| confederate victory/ both sides realized that the war would not be over quickly |
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| general played a critical support role in many confederate victories |
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| capital of the confederacy throughout most of the civil wawr |
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| most of the fighting occured in the east |
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| when did the civil war begin? |
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| british ship that was illegally stopped by union ships |
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| sacking of Lawrence, Brooks-summer episode, Pottawatome massacre |
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| president generally supported Lincoln's plans for reconstruction |
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| What reason was Johnson impeached? |
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| he dismissed a radical secretary of war |
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| provisions of the military reconstruction act |
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| the south was divided into 5 military districts, each state had to pass the 14th amendment and write a new constitution granting male suffrage regardless of color |
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| Why did sharecropping become common in the south during reconstruction |
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| south lacked sufficient money to pay wages |
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| What scandal did Fisk and Gould participate ? |
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| manipulating the price of gold |
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| why was tammany hall allowed to continue it's corruption? |
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| democratic leaders needed its help for votes |
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| what is meant by "waving the bloody shirt"? |
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| blaming democrats for the civil war |
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| what did republicans offer the southern democrats in return for their support in electing Rutherford B. Hayes? |
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| removal of federal troops from the south |
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| refers to national government's attempt to rebuild the south following the civil war |
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| exclusive officials were protected by the tenature of office act |
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| most severe depression in the first one hundred years of america's history |
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| one of the most scandal ridden administrations in American History |
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| first president to be impeached |
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| corrupt leader who defrauded New york city |
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| cartoonist who advocated political reform |
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| ecentric New York newspaper editor who ran against grant in 1872 |
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| lawyer who helped reform corruption in NYC |
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| victor of the most disputed presidential election in American history |
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| republican minority that wanted to deal harshly with the south |
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| northern radical who moved to the south |
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| method for freed slaves to farm the land without cash |
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| southerner who wanted to restore white majority rule |
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| northern republicans who oppposed the radicals in 1872 |
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| paper moeny not backed with silver or gold |
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| government ageny designed to help freed slaves |
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| extremist group that opposed radical reconstruction |
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| criminal use of funds intended for railroad construction |
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| conspiracy to cheat the government out of excise taxes |
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| agreement to remove federal troops from the south |
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| unanimous support of the democratic party in the former confederacy |
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| Lincoln's attempt to reestablish civilian government in the south quickly |
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| requirement that a majority of voters in each southern state sign an oath of allegiance |
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| guarantee of citizen rights |
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| military reconstruction act |
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| division of the south into 5 military districts |
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| attempt to regulate the conduct of former slaves |
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