Ch. 14 Key Terms

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free soil party

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what/when: political third party active between 1848-1852.
where: it's strength originated from New York.
who: former anti-slavery members of the Whig Party and the Democratic Party.
main purpose: opposing the expansion of slavery into the western territories.
opposed slavery in new territories and were against laws that discriminated against freed African Americans in states such as Ohio

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Fugitive Slave Law

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Who:U.S Congress,between Southern slave holders and Northern Free soilers.
When:September 18,1850
Significance:It declared that all runaway slaves be brought back to their masters

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Harriet Tubman

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Who:African American Abolitionist, Union spy during civil war
When:1820 - March 10,1913
Significance:Help rescue around 70 slaves with the network the Underground railroad

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Ostend Manifesto

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What: U.S Purchase Cuba from Spain
When:1854
Significance:proposed a shift in foreign policy, and use force to take Cuba in name of the National Security

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Kansas Nebraska Act

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What:Created the territories Kansas and Nebraska open lands
When:1854
Significance:settlers could vote to decide whether to allow slavery,

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Wilmot Proviso

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What:ban slavery in the new land of Mexico or any future territories
When:1864
significance:it fail to pass the Senate and to make it part of the Treaty of Guadalupe

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William LyoydGarrison

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who:American abolitionist,journalist and social reformer
When:December 12, 1805 – May 24, 1879
significance:one of the founder of American Anti slavery society,promoted immediate emancipation

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Frederick Douglas

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Who: American social reformer
When:February 1818 - February 20,1895
Significance: believer in equality of all people

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Popular sovereignty

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the sovereignty of the people is the belief that the legitimacy of the state is created by the will or consent of its people, who are the source of all political power

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undeground Railroad

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an informal network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century black slaves in the United States to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists who were sympathetic to their cause

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Compromise of 1850

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an intricate package of five bills, passed in September 1850, defusing a four-year confrontation between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North that arose following the Mexican-American War (1846–1848). The compromise, drafted by Whig Henry Clay and brokered by Democrat Stephen Douglas avoided secession or civil war at the time and quieted sectional conflict for four years.

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Dred scott Decision

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Dred Scott decision had the effect of widening the political and social gap between North and South and took the nation closer to the brink of Civil War.

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Panic of 1857

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financial panic in the United States caused by the declining international economy and overexpansion of the domestic economy

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Uncle toms Cabin

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an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War", according to Will Kaufman

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Bleeding Kansas

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a series of violent events, involving anti-slavery Free-Staters 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

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Crittenden Compromise

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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 Sumter

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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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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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the plan emphasized the blockade of the Southern ports, and called for an advance down the Mississippi River to cut the South in two. Because the blockade would be rather passive, it was widely derided by the vociferous faction who wanted a more vigorous prosecution of the war, and who likened it to the coils of an anaconda suffocating its victim

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Robert E. Lee

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(January 19, 1807 – October 12, 1870)
he commanding general of the Confederate army in the American Civil War and a postwar icon of the South's "lost cause"

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Ulysses S. Grant

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(April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885)
under the command of the Union Army defeated the confederate militray and ending the confederate states of American.

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Iron Clads

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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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September 17, 1862,
he first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Northern soil. It was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, with about 23,000 casualties

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Emancipation proclamation

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executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War under his war powers

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54th Regiment

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an infantry regiment that saw extensive service in the Union Army during the American Civil War also one of the first black units of the U.S

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national Bank

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Established the national charter of banks and encourage the development of nation currency

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Battle of Vicksburg

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ulysses S. Grant made several attempts to take Vicksburg. Following failures in the first attempts, the Battle of Chickasaw Bluffs

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Battle of Gettysburg

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The battle with the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War[7], it is often described as the war's turning point.[8] Union Maj. Gen. George Gordon Meade's Army of the Potomac defeated attacks by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, ending Lee's invasion of the North.

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Copperheads

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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 Drafts Riots 1863

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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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Appomattax

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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, and one of the last battles of the American Civil War.

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Trent Affair

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November 8, 1861 an international diplomatic incident that occurred during the American Civil War.
removed as contraband of war two Confederate diplomats, James Mason and John Slidell