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36 Cards in this Set
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Free Soil Party
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Political party in the United States that was active in the 1848 and 1852 presidential elections. It drew it's greatest strength from New York state. Main Purpose was opposing the expansion of Slavery.
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Fugitive Slave Law
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Was a part of the compromise of 1850 bewteen southen and northern states. Was contraversial. Declared that all runaway slaves be brought back to their masters
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Harriet Tubman
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Escaped slave, made 13 missions to resuce 70 slaves using the undergroud railroad
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Ostend Manifesto
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A document written in 1854 describing the rationale of the US to purchase Cuba from Spain. It stated that the US should declare war if Spain refused
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Kansas Nebraska Act
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It created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, and repealed the Missouri Comrpomise of 1820. It allowed the settlers in the new territorties to decide wether they were a slave state or not.
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Wilmot Proviso
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One of the major events leading to the Civil War. It would have banned slavery in any territory to be accquired from Meixco in the Mexican War.
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William Lloyd Garrison
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A prominent American Abolitionist, journalist and social reformer. Best know as the editor of The Liberator, and one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society.
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Fredrick Douglas
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An American social reformer, orator, writer, and statesman. Also an escaped slave. Wrote several autobiographies describing his life as a slave.
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Popular Sovereignty
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Underground Railroad
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An informal network of secret routes and safe houses used by black slaves in the 19th century to escape to free states or Canada.
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Compromise of 1850
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A intricate package of five bills passed in September 1850 defusing a four-year confrontation between the slave states and free states.
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Dred Scott Decision
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Panic of 1857
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A financial panic in the US that was caused by the declining international economy and overexpansion of the domestic economy.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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It was an Anit-Slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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Bleeding Kansas
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Was a series of violent events that involved anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery "Border Ruffians" that took place in the Kansas Territory.
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Crittenden Compromise
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Was a proposal by Kentucky Senator John J. Crittenden. Its purpose was to resolve the US secession crisis of 1860-1861. Ultimately it was unsuccessful.
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Fort sumter
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A fort where the first shots of the Civil War were fired.
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Jefferson Davis
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Was the Leader of the Confederacy during the Civil War; serving as the President for its entire history.
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Anaconda Plan
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Proposed by Genral-in-Chieft Winfield Scott was 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 the commanding genral of the Confederate army during the Civil War and post war icon of the South's "Lost Cause"
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Ulysses S. Grant
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Iron clads
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Battle of Anietam
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Emancipation Procolamation
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54th Regiment
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Morril Tariff act 1861
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Homestead act 1862
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Legal tender act 1862
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Pacific Railway act 1862
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National Bank act 1863
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Battle of Vicksburg
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Battle of Gettysburg
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copperheads
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New York Draft Riots 1863
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Appomattox
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Trent Affair
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