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free soil party

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a short lived political party which its main purpose was opposing the expansion of slavery in western slavery.

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Fugitive slave law

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part of the compromise of 1850 which declared that all runaway slaves be brought to their masters.

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Harriet Tubman

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African-American abolitionists who escaped slavery and helped lead 13 missions to free 70 slaves

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Ostend Manifesto

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a document written in 1854 that described the rationale to purchase Cuba from Spain and declare war if Spain refused

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Kansas Nebraska Act

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the initial purpose was to create opportunities for a mideastern Transcontinental Rairoad

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wilmot proviso

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major leading event of the civil warand would have banned slavery in any territory but didnt

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William Loyd Garrison

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was an American Abolitionists who was a founder of the American Anti-Slavery Society

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Fredrick Douglas

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was an American social reformer who escaped slavery and became the leader of the Abolitionist Movement

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Popular Sovereignty

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a belief that the legitimacy of the state is created by the will of its people

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Underground Railroad

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an informal network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th century black slaves

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compromise of 1850

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a package of five bills defusing a four year confrontation between slave states in the south and free states in the north

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dred scott decision

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ruled by the US supreme court that people of african decent imported to the US and held as slaves are protected by the Constitution and could never be citizens

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panic of 1857

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was a financial panic in the US caused by declining international economy and overexpansion of domestic economy

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uncle tom's cabin

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an anti slavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe and helped lay the groundwork of the civil war

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bleeding kansas

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Crittenden compromise

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was an unsuccessful proposal by Kentucky Senator John J. Crittenden to resolve the U.S. secession crisis of 1860–1861 by addressing the concerns that led the states in the Deep South of the United States to contemplate secession from the United States.

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Fort sumpter

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s a Third System masonry coastal fortification located in Charleston harbor, South Carolina. The fort is best known as the site upon which the shots initiating the American Civil War were fired, at the Battle of Fort Sumter.

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Jefferson Davis

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was an American statesman and leader of the Confederacy during the American Civil War; serving as the President for its entire history

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Anaconda plan

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Plan is the name widely applied to an outline strategy for subduing the seceding states in the American Civil War

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Robert E Lee

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was a career United States Army officer and combat engineer. He became the commanding general of the Confederate army in the American Civil War

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ulysses S Grant

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was the 18th President of the United States (1869–1877) as well as military commander during the Civil War and post-war Reconstruction periods.

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iron clads

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was a steam-propelled warship in the early part of the second half of the 19th century, protected by iron or steel armor plates

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battle of Antietam

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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 Northern soil

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emancipation proclamation

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s an executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War under his war powers. It proclaimed the freedom of 3.1 million of the nation's 4 million slaves, and immediately freed 50,000 of them, with the rest freed as Union armies advanced.

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54th regiment

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was an infantry regiment that saw extensive service in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The regiment was one of the first official black units in the United States during the Civil War

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morril tariff act 1861

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was an American protective tariff law adopted on March 2, 1861 during the Buchanan Administration and signed into law by President James Buchanan, a Democrathe Morrill Tariff raised rates to protect and encourage industry and the high wages of industrial workers.

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homestead act 1862

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is one of two United States federal laws that gave an applicant freehold title to up to 160 acres (65 hectares or one-fourth section) of undeveloped federal land west of the Mississippi River.free slaves live for five years 21 years or older

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legal tender act 1862

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is a medium of payment allowed by law or recognized by a legal system to be valid for meeting a financial obligation,created to issue paper money to finance civil war without raising taxes

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pacific railway act

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were a series of acts of Congress that promoted the construction of the transcontinental railroad in the United States through authorizing the issuance of government bonds and the grants of land to railroad companies

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National bank act 1863

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were two United States federal laws that established a system of national charters for banks, the United States national banks. They encouraged development of a national currency based on bank holdings of U.S. Treasury securities,

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battle of vicksburg

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was the final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War

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battle of gettysburg

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The battle with the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War

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copperheads

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were a vocal group of Democrats in the Northern United States (see also Union (American Civil War)) who opposed the American Civil War, wanting an immediate peace settlement with the Confederates

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new york draft riots 1863

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were violent disturbances in New York City that were the culmination of discontent with new laws passed by Congress to draft men to fight in the ongoing American Civil War.

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appomatox

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fought on the morning of April 9, 1865, was the final engagement of Confederate States Army General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia before it surrendered to the Union Army under Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant,

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Trent affair

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was an international diplomatic incident that occurred during the American Civil War. On November 8, 1861, the USS San Jacinto, commanded by Union Captain Charles Wilkes, intercepted the British mail packet Trent and removed as contraband of war two Confederate diplomats