Civil War
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| state rights | a states interest should take precedence over the interests of the national government
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| nullfication | to declare invalid
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| missori compromise | law passed by congress in 1820 by which Maine entered the union as a free state, missouri entered the union as a slave state and slavery was prohibted north of the southern border of missouri
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| ompromise of 1850 | law passed by congress by which Cali. entered in the Dis. of columbia, texas gave up its claims to new mexio in exchange for $, residents of determine whether they wanted slavery, & a stronger fugitive slave act was enatced
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| GA platform | a statement of the principles & policies the party
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| kansas-nebraska act | law that created the territories of kansas & Nebraska that contained a clause on popular sovereignty that negated the compromise of 1850
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| dred scott case | a US supreme Court decision in 1857 that a slave wasn't a citizen and couldn't beg in a legal case against anyone. he was a slave who wanted a court to say he was free because his owener took him to free state. this case led indirectly to the civil war
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| election of 1860 | four man race led by lincoln at stake during the election was the policy of slavery southerners wanted the slave codes to be preserved whereas northerners hoped to contain it
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| alexander stephens | vice president of the confederacy 1861-65
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| antietam | a creek flowing from S. penn. through NW Maryland into the potomac: civil war bottle fought near here at sharpsburg, maryland, in 1862
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| gettysburg | a borough in S.Penn: confederate forces defeated in a crucial battle of civil warfougnear here on July 1-3, 1863
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| chickmauga | a confederate victory in the american civil war; confederate forces under Braxton Bragg defeated Union forces
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| union bockade | during the civil war the union navy blocke off suther cities, primarily St.louis and created war
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| shermans march to the sea | a movement of the union army troops of general william sheraman from atl. to the coast. destroying confed. supplies the march began after captured atlanta in the fall of 1864
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| andersonville | a village of SW- central GA N, NE of america. its notorious confed prison, where more than 12,000 soliders died during the civil war, is now a national historic site
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