U.S History Jeopardy Game – Flashcards
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harriest beecher stowe
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Author of the 1852 slave narrative Novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin".
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popular sovereignty
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Literal meaning of "the peoples' authority", this idea was applied to the slavery question for new territories after 1850.
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John Brown
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This man led an 1859 attack on the federal armory at Harper's Ferry and is often called "The Meteor" that began the Civil War.
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
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This legislation opened areas of the Louisiana Purchase territory to popular sovereignty in 1854.
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Abraham Lincoln
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Republican Presidential candidate in 1860 whose primary focus was to stop the expansion of slavery.
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secession
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The idea that states retained the individual sovereignty when they joined the United States of America and therefore could leave whenever they felt it served their best interest.
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Martial Law
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By declaring this, civil authority is removed from local jurisdiction and given to federal powers.
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writ of habeas corpus
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In suspending this, Abraham Lincoln was able to arrest and hold secessionists and southern sympathizers without trial in the border states.
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gettysburg
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This battle, fought on July 1-3 1863, proved to be the turning point for the North in the east.
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vicksburg
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This battle, culminating a two year siege of this river town, proved to be the key to defeating the Confederate armies in the west.
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Robert E. Lee
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This man was originally offered the command of the Army of the Potomac by President Lincoln, but turned down the position to lead the Army of Northern Virginia.
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13th amendment
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This constitutional amendment officially abolished the institution of slavery in the United States.
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14th amendment
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This constitutional amendment defined the scope of citizenship in the United States. It also prohibited any former Confederate officers from holding public office.
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15th amendment
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This constitutional amendment gave blacks the right to vote.
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Homestead Act
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This 1862 government program gave 160 acre farms for those who were willing to move to unsettled territories.
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Manifest Destiny
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the 19th century American belief that the United States was destined to expand across the North American continent, from the Atlantic seaboard to the Pacific Ocean
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Sank Creek Massacre
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Incident in the Indian Wars of the United States that occurred on November 29, 1864, when a 700-man force of Colorado Territory militia attacked and destroyed a village of friendly Cheyenne and Arapaho encamped in southeastern Colorado Territory
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ghost dance movement
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a religious movement which was incorporated into numerous Native American belief systems that promised a peaceful end to white American expansion while preaching goals of clean living, an honest life, and cross-cultural cooperation by Native Americans.
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labor union
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an organization of workers that have banded together to achieve common goals such as better working conditions.
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trust
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A business entity formed between numerous businesses in a particular industry with intent to monopolize business, to restrain trade, or to fix prices.
