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Free soil party
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what: anti slavery ideologist
when: 1848-1854 significance: opposed the idea of slavery in the new territoty |
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Fugitive slave law
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what: part of the compromise of 1850
when: 1850 significance: made all of the runaway slave n the north be returned to their owners |
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Harriet Tubman
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Who:African American abolitionist
when:1849 significance: helped slaves go to the north and was a spy for the union during the war |
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Ostend Manifesto
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what document that stated that the united state wanted to buy cuba from spain and if spain didnt agree they would go to war
when:1854 significance: the north and the south both wanted cuba as a state to defend their own but it never happened |
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Kansas Nebraska act
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what: new land that the settlers were going to choose if it was a free or a slave state
when: 1854 significance: main purpose was to create the transcontinental railroad |
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Wilmot Proviso
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What: banned slavery in the territory gained in the Mexican American war
when:1846 significance:became part of the compromise of 1850 |
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William Lloyd Garrison
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who: american abolitionist
when:1819 significance: wanted emancipation of the slaves and promoted women rights |
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Frederick Douglas
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who:African abolitionist
when:1881 significance: wanted freedom for all of the slave. |
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Popular sovereignty
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what: the peopel decided if the 5tate wa5 for or again5t 5lavery
when significance created ten55ion5 between the re5ident5 of the 5ate5 |
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Underground railroad
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what: when the5lave5 ran away from their owner5 and went north/ 5afe hou5e5
when: 19 century significance: allowed the 5lav5 to have freedom |
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Compromise of 1850
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what: declared 5lave 5tate5 in the 5outh a5 free
when 1850 significance: created n inbalance of free and 5lave 5tate5 |
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Dred scott decision
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what: decendent5 of 5lave5 were not con5idered a5 citizen5 even though they were free
when1857 significance:u5 congre55 had no control over bannning 5lavery in teh 5tate5 |
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Panic of 1857
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what: decllining economy of the u5 due to the international economy declining
when1857 significance: weak economy untill the civil war |
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uncle Tom's decision
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what: novel written by an anti 5lavery activi5t
when 1852 significance:a 5tory on the hard5hip5 that he 5lave5 endoured |
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Bleeding Kansas
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what: bloody argument over if the 5tate 5hould be free or not of 5lavery
when1854-1858 significance: created popular 5overignity |
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Crittenden compromise
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what: un55uce5ful treaty to have the 5lave 5tate5 cecceded
when1860 significance: allowed the 5outh to be outraged at the government and begin the war |
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Fort sumter
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what: fir5t fort being fought at when the war began
when1861 significance: marked the begining of the war |
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Jefferson Davis
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who: leader of the confederate5
when:1861 5ignificance: greater amount of power than the union at teh begining of th ewar |
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Anaconda Plan
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what: plan created by the union in order to cut off the acce55 of the mi55i55ippi to the 5outh
when1861 significance: allowed the union to have control of the we5tern bowl |
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Robert E. Lee
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who: leader of the confederate5
when:1861 5ignificance:allowed the 5outh to have 5everal 5mall win5 |
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Ulysses s. grant
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who: commander of the union
when:1862 significance: one of the 5ucce5ful general5 during the war |
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ironclads
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what: 5hip5 covered in iron
when:1861 significance: allowed acce55 to the oppo5ite vterritory with minimal lo55e5 |
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battle of antietam
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what:ended the5outhern inva5ion in virginia
when:1862 significance:bloodie5t 5ingle day battle |
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emancipation proclamation
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what:allowed all of the 5lave5 in the north to be returned to their ma5ter5 in the 5outh
when:1863 significance: greater fear for the runaway 5lave5 |
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54th regiment
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what: group of african american5 that decided to fight
when:1863 significance: demon5trated that they were valuable fighter5 |
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morril tarrif act 1861
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homestead act 1862
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legal tender act 1862
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pacific railroad act 1863
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battle of vicksburg
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what:la5t battlew for the war
when:1863 significance: allowed the union to win the war |
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Battle of gettysburg
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what:larget number of ca5ualtie5 in the war
when:1863 5ignificance:ended lee'5 inva5ion of the norht |
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copperheads
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what: democrat5 in the north who oppo5ed thw war
when:1864 5ignificance: 5een a5 the oppo5ite of everyone in 5ociety |
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new york draft riots 1863
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..what: violencew in ny
when:1863 5ignificance: accumulation of di5order with law5 |
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appomattox
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battle in virginia when: 1865 5ignificance: another batttle won for the union |
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trent affair
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what: diplomatic incident during the war/ international
when:1861 5ignificance: |
