Ch 14 Vocabulary

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Free soil Party

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The Free-Soil Party developed in part from a political rivalry in New York State. The Democratic Party there consisted of contending factions: the Barn burners, who were strongly opposed to slavery, and the Hunkers, who were neutral or supportive of slavery

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Fugitive slave law

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Slaves found abandoning their owners would be put to death, or enslaved back into their plantations and treated with the least respect.

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Harriet Tubman

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Fugitive slave who had conducted the underground railroad and led many slaves to freedom into the north and Canada.

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Ostend Manifesto

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Southern slave owners had a special interest in Spanish-held Cuba. Slavery existed on the island, but a recent rebellion in Haiti spurred some Spanish officials to consider emancipation. The Southerners did not want freed slaves so close to their shores and others thought Manifest Destiny should be extended to Cuba

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Kansas Nebraska Act

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the Nebraska Territory was to be divided into two units — Kansas and Nebraska. One would abide by the rules of slavery, and one would be a free state.

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Wilmot Proviso

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The Wilmot Proviso would have prevented slavery's expansion into any new territory in the United States.

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William Lloyd Garrison

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Garrison joined the Abolition movement. He became associated with the American Colonization Society, an organization that believed free blacks should emigrate to a territory on the west coast of Africa.

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Fredrick Douglas

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Frederick Douglass was one of the foremost leaders of the abolitionist movement, which fought to end slavery within the United States in the decades prior to the Civil War.

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Popular Sovereignty

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states would gain their full independence, meaning they could form their own types of government.

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Underground railroad

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Railroad which had led north, it led many fugitive slaves to freedom with the help of Harriet Tubman.

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Compromise of 1850

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intended to stave off sectional strife. Its goal was to deal with the spread of slavery to territories in order to keep northern and southern interests in balance

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Dread Scott Decison

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Dred Scott was the name of an African-American slave. He was taken by his master, an officer in the U.S. Army, from the slave state of Missouri to the free state of Illinois and then to the free territory of Wisconsin. He lived on free soil for a long period of time.

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Panic of 1857

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The immediate event that touched off the panic was the failure of the New York branch of the Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Co., a major financial force that collapsed following massive embezzlement. Hard on the heels of this event arrived other setbacks that shook the public's confidence

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Uncle toms Cabin

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Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, it depicted the truth about slavery, and showed their life in a negative life, just how it really was.

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Bleeding kansas

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“Bleeding Kansas” was a term used by Horace Greeley of the New York Tribune to describe the violent hostilities between pro and antislavery forces in the Kansas territory during the mid and late 1850s.

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Criitenden Compromise

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The Crittenden Compromise was perhaps the last-ditch effort to resolve the secession crisis of 1860-61 by political negotiation. Authored by Kentucky Senator John Crittenden.

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Fort sumter

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union fort, where first shots of the civil war had happened

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Jefferson Davis

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Jefferson Davis was born June 3, 1808, in that portion of Christian county, Kentucky, which was afterwards set off as Todd county. His grandfather was a colonist from Wales, living in Virginia and Maryland, and rendering important public service to those southern colonies.

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Anocanda Plan

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Plan enacted during the civil war which had been applied on the union side and used on the south.

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Robert E Lee

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General on the union side, had been in plenty of battles, to be rehired by licoln

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Ulysses S grant

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Well known civl war general in the north, union

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Iron clads

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submarines,boats on union confederate side

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battle of Antietam

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Battle in the civil war

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emancipation proclamation

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emancipation of all slaves in confederate states. did not cover slaves in border states, which remained in the union.

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54th regiment

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black regiment in the civil war

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Merril tariff act 1861

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Law that raised rates to protect and encourage industry, increase wages of industrial workers.

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homestead act 1862

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Give 160 acres of under developed federal land which included free slaves, 21 years or older. who were required to live on the land for 5 years.

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legal tender act 1862

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Enacted to issue paper money, to finance the civil war. Doing so, without raising taxes.

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pacific railway act 1862

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promoted construction of the transcontinental railroad, through government bonds and grants of land to the railroad company.

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national bank act

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established national charters for banks, encouraged the development for a national currency.

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battle of vickburg

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civil war battles

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battle of gettysburg

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civil war battle

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copperheads

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snakes

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New York draft riots 1863

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When labor was low in the war, and more soldiers were needed, they weren't up for volunteering any more, and the government began to force and finally have people join.

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appomattox

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Civil war battle, which had been a union victory.

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trent affair

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mail interception