Unit 2 Leading to and the Civil War
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| The Missouri Compromise was also known as | The Compromise of 1820
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| The Missouri Compromise | Kept the balance of power equal between slave and free states by bringing in Missouri and Maine
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| Bleeding Kansas | Violent era in Kansas history as both pro-slavery and anti-slavery activists flooded Kansas to vote on the issue of slavery
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| The Kansas-Nebraska Act | Instituted Popular Sovereignty
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| The Compromise of 1850 | Brought California in as a free state
Instituted the Fugitive slave law
Remain western lands would vote on slaver
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| First State to Secede from the Union | South Carolina
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| States that followed S. Carolina | Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana,
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| The First Battle of Bull Run | Won by the Confederacy
Stonewall Jackson credited with securing the victory
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| Significance of the First Battle of Bull Run | North realized they would not win easily and were not prepared for the war. The South became too confident.
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| The Fugitive Slave law | Forced escaped slaves to be returned to the southern owners even if they were in a free state
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| Dred Scott decision | The Supreme Court voted that Dred Scott was not a citizen and therefore was not entitled to the rights of a citizen, also struck down the Missouri Compromise
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| Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederacy
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| Robert E Lee | Commanding General of the Confederacy
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| Grant | Commanding General of the Union and future president
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| Sherman | ruthless soldier led the Union to take Atlanta and destroyed much of the deep south in order to finally end the war.
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| Andrew Stevens | Voted vice-president of the Confederacy, Georgian who opposed seceding from the Union.
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| Gettysburg | Lee in Gettysburg looking for a supply of shoes. Surprise meeting of Lee's troops with a Union Scouting party. 3 day battle, turning point for the war. Eventually led to the North's victory.
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| Battle of Atlanta | Led by Sherman ending in the complete destruction of the city a major railroad city for the south, devastating blow to the south.
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| Emancipation Proclamation | Issued following the Battle of Antietam. Lincoln's last hope to stop the war, also gave the north a new cause to fight for.
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| Emancipation Proclamation | Only freed slaves in the south did not free slaves in border states or in Federally held areas.
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| Main leaders of the South | Top 1% including plantation owners and planters.
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| Main leaders of the North | Factory and Railroad owners.
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| Election of 1860 | 4 candidates ran. Lincoln got less than 60% of the vote.
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| Popular sovereignty | Allowing the citizens of states apply for statehood to vote on the issue of slavery.
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| The North's plan was to | block southern ports and gain control of the Mississippi in order to divide the south.
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| Blacks in the Union army | were treated with inferior medical care, received lower pay through most of the war, were given mundane jobs and were commanded only by white officers.
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