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Free Soil Party
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Its main purpose was opposing the expansion of slavery into the western territories, arguing that free men on free soil comprised a morally and economically superior system to slavery.
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Fugitive Slave Law
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It declared that all runaway slaves be brought back to their masters.
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Harriet Tubman
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was an African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the American Civil War. After escaping from slavery, into which she was born, she made thirteen missions to rescue more than 70 slaves using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad.
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Ostend Manifesto
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a document written in 1854 that described the rationale for the United States to purchase Cuba from Spain and implied the U.S. should declare war if Spain refused.
the Ostend Manifesto proposed a shift in foreign policy, justifying the use of force to seize Cuba in the name of national security. |
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Kansas Nebraska Act
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created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opened new lands, repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820, and allowed settlers in those territories to determine if they would allow slavery within their boundaries.
The act established that settlers could vote to decide whether to allow slavery, in the name of popular sovereignty or rule of the people. |
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Wilmot Proviso
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would have banned slavery in any territory to be acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War or in the future, including the area later known as the Mexican Cession, but which some proponents construed to also include the disputed lands in south Texas and New Mexico east of the Rio Grande.
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William Llyod Garrison
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He is best known as the editor of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator, and as one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society, he promoted "immediate emancipation" of slaves in the United States. Garrison was also a prominent voice for the women's suffrage movement.
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Fredrick Douglass
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After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement, gaining renown for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writing. After the Civil War, Douglass remained very active in America's struggle to reach its potential as a "land of the free". Douglass actively supported women's suffrage. Following the war, he worked on behalf of equal rights for freedmen, and held multiple public offices.
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Popular sovereignty
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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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Underground 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. The term is also applied to the abolitionists who aided the fugitives.
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Compromise of 1850
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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.
it 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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a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that people of African descent imported into the United States and held as slaves (or their descendants, whether or not they were slaves) were not protected by the Constitution and could never be U.S. citizens. The court also held that the U.S. Congress had no authority to prohibit slavery in federal territories and that, because slaves were not citizens, they could not sue in court.
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The Panic of 1857
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a financial panic in the United States caused by the declining international economy and overexpansion of the domestic economy.
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Uncle Tom's 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"
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Bleeding Kansas
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At the heart of the conflict was the question of whether Kansas would enter the Union as a free state or slave state.
Bleeding Kansas was a proxy war between Northerners and Southerners over the issue of slavery in the United States. |
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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 coastal fortification located in Charleston, South Carolina. it's where the shots initiating the American Civil War. The Battle of Fort Sumter.
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Jefferson Davis
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leader of the Confederacy during the Civil war & was also the president for the entire time. He argues against succession.
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Anaconda Plan
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To subdued the succeeding states, purposed by General Winfield Scott, wants to capture the Mississippi River to cut it in two, had to capture the harbors south of the Chesapeake Bay, control in the Mississippi results in one of the capture of Vicksburg.
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Robert E Lee
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The commanding chief during the American Civil War.
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Ulysses S. Grant
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the 18th president as well as military commander during the civil war and post-war reconstruction periods. Under Grant's command, the Union Army defeated the Confederate military and ended the Confederate estates of America. Grant began his lifelong career as a soldier after graduating from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1843.
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Iron Clads
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March 1862 also known as the Merrimac, the Confederates. The Monitor vs. the Merrimac: they shot cannons at eachother. The Union was successful because they were able to keep their blockade .
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Battles of antietnam
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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. 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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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 facts
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One unit that insisted on fighting without pay was the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, one of the first african american regiments organized to the north. earned its greatest fame in July 1863, when it led a heroic attack on Fort Wagner in South Carolina
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Moril tarriff act
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a law that raise rates to protect and encourage industry in high wages to industrial workers.
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Homestead Act
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gave 160 acres to underdeveloped federal land which included free slaves, have to live on it in minimum 5 years and must be 25 years or older.
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Legal tender act
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create to issue paper money to finance the Civil War without raising taxes.
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Pacific railway act
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Promote the construction of the trans continental railroad through government bonds and grants of land to railroad companies.
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National bank act
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establish national charters for banks and encouraged the development of the national currency.
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Battle of vicksburg
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In a series of skilled maneuvers, Union Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and his Army of the Tennessee crossed the Mississippi River and drove the Confederate army of Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton into defensive lines surrounding the fortress city of Vicksburg, Mississippi. Grant besieged the city from May 18 to July 4, 1863, until it surrendered, yielding command of the Mississippi River to the Union and thus securing one of its major objectives for achieving victory in the war; splitting the southern states at the Mississippi River.
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Battle of Gettysburg
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fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The battle with the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War, it is often described as the war's turning point.
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Copperheads
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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 rights
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Appomattox
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