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1. Compromise of 1850
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The compromise admitted California to the United States as a “free” (no slavery) state but allowed some newly acquired territories to decide on slavery for themselves. Part of the Compromise included the Fugitive Slave Act, which proved highly unpopular in the North. Senator Henry Clay was a force behind the passage of the compromise
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2. Fugitive slave act
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A law passed as part of the Compromise of 1850, which provided southern slaveholders with legal weapons to capture slaves who had escaped to the free states
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3. Kansas-Nebraska act
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the act of Congress in 1854 annulling the Missouri Compromise, providing for the organization of the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, and permitting these territories self-determination on the question of slavery.
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5. Ostend Manifesto
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a declaration (1854) issued from Ostend, Belgium, by the U.S. ministers to England, France, and Spain, stating that the U.S. would be justified in seizing Cuba if Spain did not sell it to the U.S.
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6. “bleeding Kansas
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was a series of violent events, involving Free-Staters (anti-slavery) and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian" elements, that took place in the Kansas Territory and the western frontier towns of the U.S. state of Missouri roughly between 1854 and 1858. These incidents were attempts to influence whether Kansas would enter the Union as a free or slave state
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7. Dred Scott v. Sanford
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was a decision by the United States Supreme Court that ruled that people of African descent imported into the United States and held as slaves, or their descendants—whether or not they were slaves—could never be citizens of the United States, and that the United States Congress had no authority to prohibit slavery in federal territories
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8. Lecompton constitution
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was the second of four proposed constitutions for the state of Kansas The document was written in response to the anti-slavery position of the 1855 Topeka Constitution of James H. Lane and other free-state advocates.
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9. Harper’s Ferry
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John Brown's to assist runaway slaves and launch attacks on slaveholders. no slaves came forward
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10. Abraham Lincoln
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The 16th President of the United States (1861-1865), who led the Union during the Civil War and emancipated slaves in the South (1863).
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11. Freeport Doctrine
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articulated by Stephen A. Douglas at the second of the Lincoln-Douglas debates on August 27, 1858, in Freeport, Illinois.
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12. The confederate states of America
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The states that seceded from the union
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13. Trent affair
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incident in the diplomatic relations between the United States and Great Britain, which occurred during the American Civil War. On Nov. 8, 1861
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14. Sherman’s’ March
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the name commonly given to the Savannah Campaign conducted in late 1864 by Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman of the Union Army during the American Civil War. The campaign began with Sherman's troops leaving the captured city of Atlanta, Georgia, on November 15, 1864, and ended with the capture of the port of Savannah on December 22.
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15. Appomattox Court house
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A village in Virginia where General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant in April 1865, effectively ending the American Civil War
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16. Emancipation proclamation
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the proclamation issued by President Lincoln on January 1, 1863, freeing the slaves in those territories still in rebellion against the Union.
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17. Writ of habeas corpus
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a writ ordering a prisoner to be brought before a judge
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18. Wade-davis Bill
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1864 was a program proposed for the Reconstruction of the South written by two Radical Republicans, Senator Benjamin Wade of Ohio and Representative Henry Winter Davis of Maryland
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19. Freedman’s bureau
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was a U.S. federal government agency that aided distressed refugees of the American Civil War.
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20. 13th,14th,15th amendments
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rights for African Americans
13th abolition of slavery Legally gave African-Americans the privileges of American citizenship as part of the Fourteenth Amendment. To guarantee their right to vote, Congress passed and individual states ratified the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution |
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21. Black codes
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any code of law that defined and limited the rights of former slaves after the Civil War.
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