Civil war station

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  1. 2. Democratic candidate for president in 1852 and the 14th president of the united states, he made the gadsden purchase which opened the northwest for settlement and passed the unpopular Kansas Nebraska Act.
  2. 4. a slave state that lay between the north and the south and did not join the confederacy during the civil war Delaware Kentucky Maryland and Missouri were border states.
  3. 5. American politcian and pro-slavery nominee for president he debated abraham Lincoln about slavery. He proposed the unpopular Kansas-Nebraska Act and established the freeport doctrine, upholding the idea of popular sovereignty.
  4. 7. The first major battle of the civil war resulting in a confederate victory;showed that the civil war would not be won easily.
  5. 8. American congressman,He assaulted and beat Senator Charles Sumner for his antislavery speeches and for insulting a pro salvery relative.He was nicknamed buly brooks by northerners.
  6. 11. American army general put in charge of the union troops and later removed by Lincoln for failure to press Lee's Confedeate Troops in Richmond.
  7. 13. A senator from Massachusetts, he was attacked by prestion Brooks with cane over the issue of slavery.
  8. 14. American general he served as commander in the Mexican war and used a two part strategy against the south in the Civil War he wanted to destroy the South's economy with a naval blockade and gain control of the mississippi River.
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  1. 1. A civil War battle in which the confederate army forced most of the Union army out of Virginia.
  2. 3. an incident in which abolitionist John Brown and seven other men Murdered Pro-slavery Kansans.
  3. 6. a law that allowed voters in kansas and nebraska to chose whether to allow slavery.
  4. 9. a federal outpost in Charleston, South carolina that was attacked by the Confederates in April 1861, sparking the civil War.
  5. 10. a series of civil War battles in which Confederate army successes forced the union army to retreat from Richmond Virginia the confederate Capital.
  6. 12. Confederate efforts to use the importance of southern cotton to Britain's textile industry to persuade the british to support the confederacy in the civil war.