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The numbers of voters were increased due to the
dropping of this
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Property ownership requirements
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This system put into government offices those who
supported the winning candidate
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Spoils System
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Jackson believed John Quincy Adams election in
1828 was accomplished through this
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A Corrupt Bargain
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The Election of 1828 was characterized by this
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Lies and character assassination
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Jacksons presidency was a continuous battle with
this
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The National Bank
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This was the major issue in the Election of 1832
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The National Bank
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He succeeded Jackson as president in 1836 but his
term was miserable due to an economic depression
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Martin Van Buren
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This party was born out of opposition to Jackson
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The Whigs
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William Henry Harrisons presidential campaign
was based on these two concepts
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The log cabin and cider barrel
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This was the Whig slogan in the Election of 1840
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Tippecanoe and Tyler Too
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This congressional proposal wanted slavery
forbidden in any territory won from Mexico
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Wilmot Proviso
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To fight the expansion of slavery pushed by the
Southern Democrats, this group of Democrats led
by Martin Van Buren allied with the Free Soil
Party
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The Barnburners
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The introduction of this crop caused the dramatic
rise of slavery
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Cotton
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Slaves migrated to this region during the cotton
boom
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From the Old South to the New South
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By 1860, this was the percentage of Southern
whites who owned slaves
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He was known as the Compromiser
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Henry Clay
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He was the Souths foremost advocate for states
rights
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John C. Calhoun
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He was the Whig candidate in the Election of 1844
but This Democrat won
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Henry Clay / James K. Polk
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His was the most successful of slave uprisings in
the American South
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Nat Turner
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Because no one knew his views on any issues, he
was the perfect Whig candidate for president in
1848
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Zachary Taylor
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The growth of the railroad industry was very slow
due to this
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Engineering problems with design and production
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Prior to 1860, they financed the lions share of
railroad construction
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Private investors
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In the early stages of railroad growth, these
were the railroads biggest competitor
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Canals
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This was the first railroad to receive federal
aid (through land grants)
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Illinois Central
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The Daily Double
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This mid-western city owed its growth to the
railroads that met together at its location on
the shores of Lake Michigan
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Chicago
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Age of Jackson
Politics
Mexican War
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As the head of the National Bank, he was
Jacksons enemy
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Nicholas Biddle
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This was Jacksons weapon against the bank
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Depositing government money in other state banks
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This was Jacksons Indian policy
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Removal
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One of Jacksons few foreign policy successes was
this with France
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France agreed to pay for ships seized in years
leading up to War of 1812
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Jacksons hatred of Calhoun stemmed in part from
Calhouns wifes treatment of her
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Peggy Eaton
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This crisis stemmed from South Carolinas refusal
to abide by the tariff law
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Nullification Crisis
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The tariff that caused the Nullification Crisis
was called this
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Tariff of Abomination
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This settled the border between the US and Canada
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Webster-Ashburton Treaty
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This issue was avoided by all presidents from
Jackson up to (but not including) Tyler
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Annexation of Texas
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He became the first president of Texas
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Sam Houston
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He was the victor of the Battles of Palo Alto and
Buena Vista
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Zachary Taylor
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He conducted the invasion of Mexico and the
eventual conquest of Mexico City
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Winfield Scott
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This was the main reason behind the war
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The annexation of Texas
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He was the president who oversaw Americas
largest land-grab and fulfilled its Manifest
Destiny
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James K. Polk
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America won this in the Treaty of Guadalupe
Hidalgo
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The American Southwest and California
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This prompted the migration of slaves from the
Old to the New South and broke up slave families
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Slave prices
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As a social institution, slavery is difficult to
generalize due to this
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Treatment varied greatly
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Her novel personalized the slavery issue for many
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Harriet Beecher Stowes Uncle Toms Cabin
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The Fugitive Slave laws put into place by the
Compromise of 1850 caused this change in the North
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Increased anti-slavery feelings
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This SCOTUS decision eliminated the Missouri
Compromise and increased tensions between North
and South
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Dredd Scott Decision
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American businesses were increasingly financed by
them
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Foreign Investors
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They were the fastest ships produced and carried
specialty cargo
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Clipper ships
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The development of sea-going steamships caused a
decrease in this and an increase in this
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Freight rates decreased and immigration increased
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He invented the mechanical reaper
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Cyrus McCormick
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Tensions between North and South increased in
part to the growing unimportance of this trade
route
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Mississippi River
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American industry in the early to mid-1800s
could be characterized as this
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Rapid growth
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By 1850, the US led in the production of this
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Precision instruments
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Manufacturing in the South could be characterized
as this
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Very little manufacturing less than 15
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Poor workers in cities survived due to this
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Everyone in the family worked
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By 1850, this constituted 60 of US exports
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Cotton
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In his book, Democracy in America, Tocqueville
believed this was the greatest American virtue
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Equality
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The growth of the factory system and cities
caused a decline in this
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Power of the father
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Family demographics changed in this way
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Declining birth rate
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American society was based on family, the church
and this
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Voluntary Associations
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The height of American alcoholism occurred during
this decade
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The 1820s
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This prompted a massive migration to California
in 1849
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1849 Gold Rush
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Californians were against slavery for this reason
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Economic Slaves were unfair competition
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The South was against the admittance of
California as a state due to this
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It would upset the balance between slave and free
states
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This political agreement allowed California to
join the Union
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Compromise of 1850
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Although as part of the Compromise slavery was
not prohibited in the Mexican Cession
territories, Clay believed slavery could not
exist there for this reason
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Geography and climate of the territory would not
support slavery
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This movement believed that democracy would
triumph everywhere
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The Young America Movement
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He was considered the movements leading spokesman
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Stephen Douglas
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This was one reason for Douglas support for the
Kansas-Nebraska Act
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He wanted to build the transcontinental railroad
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This political party was most closely associated
with Americanism or Nativism
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The Know-Nothing Party
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The biggest cause for violence in Kansas was this
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Interference from outsiders sympathetic to the
North and South
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She is most associated with efforts to reform the
treatment of the insane
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Dorothea Dix
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Although William Lloyd Garrison was involved in
many reform efforts, he was most known for his
work in this cause
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Abolition
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He was the most well-known black leader in the
fight for abolition
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Frederick Douglass
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Womens work in the Abolition Movement caused the
rise of this movement
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Womens Rights Movement
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The Gadsden Purchase, which increased the size of
Arizona and New Mexico, was bought from Mexico
for this purpose
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The construction of a transcontinental railroad
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People
Road to War
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In response to a massacre of anti-slavery
settlers, he massacred a like amount of
pro-slavery men in May 1856
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John Brown
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According to your text, he is the man on whose
shoulders must rest the blame for Bleeding
Kansas
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President Pierce
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He won the Democratic nomination for president in
1856 because he had been out of the country
during the debate over Kansas
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James Buchanan
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He was the first, and only, president of the
Confederacy
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Jefferson Davis
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He eventually commanded all Union troops during
the Civil War
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General Ulysses Grant
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Buchanan urged Congress to accept this
pro-slavery Kansas state constitution
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The Lecompton Constitution
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The economic Panic of 1857 caused many in the
South to believe this made them superior and
immune to economic problems
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King Cotton
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Lincolns view on slavery was this
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Slavery should be abolished but opposed equality
for blacks
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This was the purpose for John Browns raid on
Harpers Ferry Virginia
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To arm slaves for an uprising
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Stephen Douglas believed that states should
decide the issue of slavery called this
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Popular Sovereignty
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Andrew Jacksons informal group of advisors were
called this
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Kitchen Cabinet
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This Native-American tribe fought removal through
the court system
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The Cherokee
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He succeeded Harrison as president
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John Tyler
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In 1840, California was populated mostly by them
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Mexicans
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The South was backward in railroad construction
primarily due to this
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The use of slavery
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In the Election of 1860, this happened to the
Democratic Party
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It split into Northern and Southern wings
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They all ran for president in 1860
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Lincoln, Douglas, Bell, and Breckenridge
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They were the first state to secede even before
Lincoln took office
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South Carolina
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The upper Southern states seceded when Lincoln
did this
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Called for 75,000 volunteers
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This was the first shot of the Civil War
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Attack on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, South
Carolina
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Those in the North wanting peace (often Southern
sympathizers) were called this
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Copperheads
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In establishing a new government, the South had
major problems due to this
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It was a Confederacy based on states rights so
the central government was very weak
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Lincoln treated political dissenters in the North
this way
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Suspended Habeas Corpus and freely applied
martial law
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The Emancipation Proclamation freed this number
of slaves
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Zero, nada, niente, null
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They were the intended audience for the
Emancipation Proclamation
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Foreign countries Lincoln did not want Europe to
help the South so he made slavery an issue
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This was the first major battle of the Civil War
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Bull Run (or First Manassas) (The Union named
battles after the closest geographical feature
such as a creek while the Confederacy named
battles after the closest town)
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This was the battle in which both sides were
shocked and realized the war would be long and
bloody
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Shiloh
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Union General George McClellan turned back
Confederate General Robert E. Lees first
invasion of the North here
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Antietam
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The victory in this battle allowed Lincoln to
release the Emancipation Proclamation
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Antietam
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Lees second invasion of the North turned into a
pivotal three day battle here in Pennsylvania
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Gettysburg
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General Grants victory here closed the
Mississippi to the South
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Vicksburg
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The construction of these for the Confederacy by
Great Britain brought the US to the brink of war
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Commerce raiding ships (ironclad rams)
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Union General Shermans march through Georgia
resulted in this for Lincoln
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Reelection in 1864
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Confederate General Lee surrendered to General
Grant here in April 1865
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Appomattox Court House