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bleeding kansas |
Term referring to bloodshed over popular sovereignty in a particular western territory |
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election of 1860 |
Lincoln, the Republican candidate, won because the Democratic party was split over slavery. As a result, the South no longer felt like it has a voice in politics and a number of states seceded from the Union. |
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fort sumpter |
Were first shots of the civil war happened |
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harper's ferry |
Location of federal arsenal that John Brown raided to get guns to arm slaves |
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border states |
in the civil war the states between the north and the south: delaware, mayland, kentucky, and missouri |
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richmond |
Confederate capital after the Civil War |
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Sherman's "march to the seas" |
sherman's destruction of southern states on his way to south carolina at the end of the Civil War |
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promontory point |
Point in Utah where the Transcontinental Railroad was completed |
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ellis island |
The place all European immigrants came through to America and went though inspection and aproval. |
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haymarket riot |
incident in which a bomb exploded during a lobor protest in Haymarket square in chicago, killing several police officers |
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homestead strike |
violent strike against andrew carnegies steel mills |
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prohibition |
a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages |
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panama canal |
shortcut through Panama that connects Pacific and Atlantic Oceans |
