Study Guide: Final Exam
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American colonization society
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The American Colonization Society, established in 1817 by Robert Finley of New Jersey, was the primary vehicle to support the return of free African Americans to what was considered greater freedom in Africa.
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American anti-slavery society
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Domestic slavery
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Slavery is a system under which people are treated as property to be bought and sold, and are forced to work.
combined abolitionist struggles with reform of womens rights
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seneca falls convention
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The Seneca Falls Convention was an early and influential women's rights convention, the first to be organized by women in the Western world, in Seneca Falls, New York.
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declaration of sentiments
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The Declaration of Sentiments, also known as the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments, is a document signed in 1848 by 68 women and 32 men-100 out of some 300 attendees at the first women's rights convention.
listen infringements of womens rights
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slavery justification
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-in the old testament
- inferiority of blacks
- profitable
-social necessity
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George Fitzhugh
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George Fitzhugh (November 4, 1806 - July 30, 1881) was an American social theorist who published racial and slavery-based sociological theories in the antebellum era.
wrote "slavery justified"
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Slave rebellion
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A slave rebellion is an armed uprising by slaves. Slave rebellions have occurred in nearly all societies that practice slavery, and are amongst the most feared events for slaveholders.
silent rebellions included:
-breaking tools
-poison
-slow work
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Eugene Genovese
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Eugene Dominic Genovese (May 19, 1930 - September 26, 2012) was an American historian of the American South and American slavery.
roll, jordan, roll about slave families
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Nat Turner's Rebellion
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Nat Turner's Rebellion was a slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, during August 1831. Led by Nat Turner, rebel slaves killed anywhere from 55 to 65 people, the highest number of fatalities caused by any slave uprising in the American South.
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Slave Culture
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-family was center of community
- laws didn't recognize marriage
- named children after relatives
- gender roles were equal in work.
- in slave trade, women ran households were more prevalent.
-communities would raise children
-traditions were shared through stories and music
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southern society
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slave population doubled between 1830 and 1860 from 2 million to 4 million.
-slaves worked everywhere
- some were allowed to work toward paying off debt
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the antebellum south
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society based on cotton.
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compromise of 1850
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The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five bills passed in the United States in September 1850, which defused a four-year confrontation between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War (18…
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fugitive slave act
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Unlce Tom's Cabin
freedom narritives
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stephen douglas
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Stephen Arnold Douglas (April 23, 1813 - June 3, 1861) was an American politician from Illinois and the designer of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
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Sack of lawrence
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The Sacking of Lawrence occurred on May 21, 1856, when pro-slavery activists attacked and ransacked the town of Lawrence, Kansas, which had been founded by anti-slavery settlers.
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John brown and the pottawomie massacre
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retaliation for sack of lawrence
was out to kill proslavery settlers
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Dred scott decision
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Dred Scott v. Sandford, , was a landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court held that African Americans, whether slave or free, could not be American citizens and therefore had no standing to sue in federal court, and that the federal government had no power to regulate…
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Harper's ferry, VA
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John brown returns to attempt an attack on the federal arsenal
beginning of speedy trials
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election of 1860
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The United States presidential election of 1860 was the 19th quadrennial presidential election. The election was held on Tuesday, November 6, 1860 and served as the immediate impetus for the outbreak of the American Civil War.
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South carolina convention
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south carolina voted unanimously for secession
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Jefferson davis
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Jefferson Finis Davis (June 3, 1808- December 6, 1889) was a United States soldier and statesman, and was the President of the Confederate States of America during the entire Civil War which was fought from 1861 to 1865. He took personal charge of the Confederate war plans but was unable …
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The civil war
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A civil war is a conflict within a nation.
april 1816-1865
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union advantages
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railroad milage
financial resource
population
industrialization
disadvantage: had to invade a larger region
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south advantages
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military
mexican border
on defense
used own resources
easy to move troops
leadership
disadvantage: agrarian economy
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agrarian economy
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southern strategy
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protect homes and all land
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north strategy
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anaconda plan
take control of mississippi
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abraham lincoln
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Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 - April 15, 1865) was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the United States through its greatest constitutional, military, and moral crisis-the American Civil War-preserving …
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Battle of First Bull Run
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The First Battle of Bull Run, also known as First Manassas, was fought on July 21, 1861, in Prince William County, Virginia, near the city of Manassas.
proved it would be a long war
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robert e lee
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Robert Edward Lee (January 19, 1807- October 12, 1870) was an American career military officer who is best known for having commanded the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War.
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admiral david farragut
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took control of new orleans
union had south of mississippi
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conscription
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Conscription is the compulsory enlistment of people in some sort of national service, most often military service.
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emancipation proclamation
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Sherman's "march to the sea"
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Sherman's March to the Sea is the name commonly given to the Savannah Campaign conducted through Georgia from November 15 to December 21, 1864 by Maj.
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Appomattox Courthouse
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confederates surrender 1865
lee to grant
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Ulysses S Grant
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Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant; April 27, 1822 - July 23, 1885) was the 18th president of the United States (1869-1877) following his success as military commander in the American Civil War. Union
took control of fort henry and donelson
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Significance of the Civil War
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first "total war" in history
accelerated modernization of northern economy
new national self consciousness
war of attrition
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polarization
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In politics, polarization (or polarisation) refers to the divergence of political attitudes to ideological extremes.
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characteristics of abolitionist societies
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treasure iron works
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battle of antietam
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The Battle of Antietam also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly in the South, fought on September 17, 1862, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, and Antietam Creek as part of the Maryland Campaign, was the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Union soil.
laun…
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Lincoln Douglas Debates
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The Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858 were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for the Senate in Illinois, and Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate.
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kansas nebraska act
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing white male settlers in those territories to determine through popular sovereignty whether they woul…
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Franklin pierce
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Franklin Pierce (November 23, 1804October 8, 1869) was the 14th President of the United States (1853-1857) and is the only President from New Hampshire. was a drunk
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gadsden purchase
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The Gadsden Purchase is a region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that was purchased by the United States in a treaty signed by James Gadsden, the American ambassador to Mexico at the time, on December 30, 1853. It was then ratified, with changes, by the US Sena…
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mary todd
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Mary Ann Todd Lincoln (ne Todd; December 13, 1818- July 16, 1882) was the wife of the sixteenth President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, and was First Lady of the United States from 1861 to 1865.
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battle of gettysburg
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The Battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1-3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania between Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War.
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sojourner truth
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Sojourner Truth (; - November 26, 1883) was an African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist.
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Study Guide: Final Exam