study questions for history
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| Compromise of 1850 | Law that admitted California as a free state
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| Fugitive Slave act | Forced return of slaves to the South
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| Kansas-Nebraska Act | Led to the expansion of slavery in the West and "Bleeding Kansas"
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| Republican Party | Lincoln's anti-slavery party; won presidency in 1860
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| Dred Scott Decision | Supreme Court's ruling that slaves are property
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| John Brown | White abolitionist who led a raid at Harper's Ferry
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| Secession | Formal withdrawal from the Union
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| Winston County, AL | Only AL county not to secede from Union
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| Ulysses S. Grant | Union commander during the Civil War; became president in 1876
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| Fort Sumter | Where the first shots of the Civil War were fired
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| Homestead-Act | Offered 160 acres of free western land
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| Morriil-Land Grant | Land was donated to agricultural and mechanical colleges
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| Emancipation Proclamation | Lincoln's freeing of southern slaves
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| Habeas Corpus | A person can not be imprisoned without appearing in court
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| Gettysburg | Most decisive battle of the Civil War where over 50,000 men died
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| Vicksburg | Union victory that cut the South in half
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| Sherman's March | 60,000 hand picked troops destroyed everything from Chattanooga, TN, through Atlanta, to Savannah, GA
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| Richmond | Capital of the Confederate States
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| Carpetbagger | Person who went South after the war for personal profit
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| Appomattox | Where Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Gen. U.S. Grant
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| 13th Amendment | Abolished slavery and involuntary servitude
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| Black Codes | Limited the rights of African-Americans; made them 2nd class citizens
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| Scalawags | Southern traitors during Reconstruction
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| John Wilkes Booth | Confederate sympathizer who shot President Lincoln at Ford Theatre
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| Jefferson Davis | Confederate States of America President
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