Civil War and Reconstruction Vocabulary
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| Sectionalism | show 🗑
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| show | Allowing the voters in a territory decide if they want slavery.
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| show | Compromise that brings California into the Union as a free state.
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| show | Massachusetts senator whose greatest concern was to keep the Union together.
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| show | Law passed as part of the Compromise of 1850 that made it a federal crime to help runaway slaves.
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| Uncle Tom's Cabin | show 🗑
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| show | Plan that split the Louisiana Purchase into two territories. Popular sovereignty would decide the question of slavery.
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| Bleeding Kansas | show 🗑
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| show | New political party that formed in 1854 in opposition to slavery.
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| Dred Scott | show 🗑
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| Stephen Douglas | show 🗑
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| show | An abolitionist who led a slave revolt at Harper's Ferry, Virginia.
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| show | He won the Election of 1860 without being on the ballot in the southern states.
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| show | The southern states officially leave the Union.
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| show | The first and only president of the Confederate States of America.
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| show | The opening battle of the Civil War begins here in April, 1861.
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| Cotton Diplomacy | show 🗑
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| 1st Bull Run | show 🗑
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| show | Union general early in the war known for his hesitancy to fight.
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| show | Virginian who resigns from the U.S Army to lead the Confederacy.
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| show | Battle in Maryland known as the "single bloodiest day" in American History.
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| show | Name given to wooden ships with a sheet of metal armor.
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| show | Lincoln said of him, "I can't spare this man. He fights."
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| show | Brutally vicious battle fought in April, 1862, on the banks of the Tennessee River.
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| Reconstruction | show 🗑
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| show | Name of Lincoln's plan to reconstruct the Union.
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| Thirteenth | show 🗑
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| Freedmen's Bureau | show 🗑
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| John Wilkes Booth | show 🗑
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| show | He becomes our 17th president after Lincoln.
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| Black Codes | show 🗑
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| Radical Republicans | show 🗑
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| Carpetbaggers | show 🗑
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| Democratic | show 🗑
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| Ku Klux Klan | show 🗑
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| show | Nickname given to white southern Republicans.
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| show | Forced freedmen to pay a fee before voting.
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| Jim Crow | show 🗑
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| Compromise of 1877 | show 🗑
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| show | Government practice of keeping whites and African Americans separate.
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| Plessy vs. Ferguson | show 🗑
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| Thaddeus Stevens | show 🗑
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| show | was the Union victory that gave the Union control of the Mississippi River.
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| Copperheads | show 🗑
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| show | General Winfield Scott's war strategy to defeat the Confederacy.
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| Emancipation Proclamation | show 🗑
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| Gettysburg Address | show 🗑
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