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Civil War
Chapter 4 Test Review
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11th Grade
11/16/2008

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Harriet Tubman
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most famous conductor of the underground railroad
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Lincoln Douglas Debates
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Race in 1858 of Illinois's Senetor; douglas won; forced democratic party apart and showed there was a way to get around the dred scott decision
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Jefferson Davis
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elected president of the confederacy when the south seceeded in 1860
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Steven Douglas
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Democratic senetor who won against lincoln for his 3 term as senetor of illinios
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Popular Sovereighty
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people vote
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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writter of Uncle toms cabin
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Battle of Bull Run
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first southern victory
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Battle of Antietam
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first battle of the civil war north won
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Robert E Lee
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confederate general; had his own statigies and ideas for war; not vain
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Fort Sumter
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an island in charlston harbor attacked and captured by confederates in the beggining of the civil war
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Stonewall Jackson
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Cofederate leader at the battle of bull run held his troops while reinforcement arrived (thts how he got his name) ;] fisrt confed victorty
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15th Admendment
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no one can be kept from voting
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Sharecropping *
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a system in which land owners give farm workers land seeds and tool in return for part of the crops that they raised
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Rutherford B Hayes
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elected in 1876 by only a few electoral votes support for reconstruction faded after he was elected
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Freedman's Bureau
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a federal adgency set up to help former slaves after the civil war
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13th Admendment
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slavery abolished
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14th Admendment
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prevent states from dening rights a privilages from the US citizens
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KKK (Klu Klux Klan)
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secret orginization that used terrist tactics in attemp to restore white surpremency in the wouthern states after the civil war
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Gettysburg Address
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made people of the US realize that it was not just a collection of states but one unified sation
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Reconstruction Act of 1867
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Devided the confederate states into 5 military districts required to grate african american men to vote and must radify the 14th admendment to unter the union
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John Brown
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led the attack on Harper's Ferry
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Anaconda Plan
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created by winfield scott 3 stages of attack againts south; ( thts in ur butt) ;] 1. Blockade all southern ports 2. recapture mississippi river 3. recapture the confederate capital at richmond
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Emancipation Proclimation
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freed all slaves behind confederate lines
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Conscription
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drafting of citizens for military service
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Underground Railroad
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system of routes on which runaway slaves escaped to canada or save areas in the freeeeee states
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Clara Bartin
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founded the american red cross
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William T Sherman
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superentendent of the LOUSI state ceminary of learning and the military academy expressed his great fear for the state
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Appomattox Courthouse
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lee surrenderd to grant herrrr
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John Wilkes Booth
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assisinated lincoln 5 days after civil war
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John Wilkes Booth
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assisinated lincoln 5 days after civil war
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Fugitive Slave Act
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aledged fugitive slaves werent entitled to a trial bu jury
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Seccesion
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the form of withdraw of a state from the union
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Vicksburg
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captured by north with helped them jain controll of the mississippi
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Ulysses S Grant
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general for union army helped north ensure victory of the civil war
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Hiram Revels
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first African american senetor
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Sectionalism
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loyaltly of your own section or region of the country rather then the nation as a hole
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What were the terms and signifigance of the compromise of 1850?
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california was admitted as a free state; but no slave state was admitted to balance proposed new slave laws; ca became free but nm and ut became popular sovereighnty territories
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who made up the republican, free-soil, whigs, democrats and know nothing party?
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R: former nothern know nothings, keeping slavery out of new territorties and took over most of the north
FS: opposed extemtion of slavery in new territories made up of northerners were not abolishionists
W: made up of both northerners and southerners but ended up dissolving into the newly reformed republican party and no nothings
D: based on rights of workers and individual states opposed the power of wealth and mostly southerners
KN: favored Native born people split over the opinion of slavery
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What was the signifigance of the Lincoln Douglas Debates?
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showed that there was a way to get around the dred scott decesion; douglas was inconstistant and set lincoln up for presidency
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What was the importance of Harper's Ferry?
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showed there could be no slave uprisings
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What the the Compromise of 1820?
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missouri compromise= compromise of 1820 : divied lousiana purchace at 13'30' line: north of line = free south of line =slave
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What was the significance of the Dred Scott Decision?
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the debate over if a slave owner brought his slave into a free state would he be free; the court ruled against dred scoot becasue he wasnt a citizen
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What role did the state of South Carloina play in the creation of a Confederacy?
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it was the first state to secced form the union on dec 20 1860 after lincoln was elected
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What happened to Andrew Johnson as president?
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he was impeached on the grounds that he removed a cabnet member without the senets approval
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How did congress attemp to curb the violence of the KKK?
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they passed enforcement acts in 1870 and 1871 which stated that 1. federal supervison would be provided for elections in southern states 2. gave the president power to use federal troops in area where the klan was active
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Who were Carpetbaggers and Scalawags?
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scalawags white southerners who joined the rebulican party after the civil war
carpetbaggers northerns who moved to the south after civil war for financail gain
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What was lincolns main goal when the war began?
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he wanted to preserve the union not about slavery
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Why was the battle of Gettysburg considered the turning point of the war?
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becasue they broke lees winning streak and help unify the NATION
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What were the key differaces between the south and the north that ultimaty led to the civil war?
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proslavery vs. antislavery; north--population/ number of soliders; railroads and factories self sufficient; south--- better general, less population, motivated soliders, cottoned
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