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36 Cards in this Set
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Free soil party
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Political party active in the presidential elections.consisted of ant-salve members,whigh party, and demo. party
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Fugitive slave law
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declared that all runaway slaves be brought back to their masters
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Harriet Tubman
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union spy.rescued more than 70 slaves using the underground railroad.
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Ostend Manifesto
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written in 1854 that described the rationale for the United States to purchase Cuba from Spain
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Kansas Nebraska Act
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allowed settlers in those territories to determine if they would allow slavery within their boundaries.main purpose was to creat way for the railroad
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Wilmoto Proviso
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would have banned slavery in any territory to be acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War
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William Loyd Garrison
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editor of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator, and as one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society,
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Fredrick Douglas
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leader of the abolitionist movement
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Popular Sovereighty
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belief that the legitimacy of the state is created by the will or consent of its people
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Undergroung Railroad
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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
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Compromise of 1850
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-inforced fugitive slave laws to please the union
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Dred Scott decision
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-Congress had no right to prohibit slavery in the territories.
-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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-caused by the declining international economy and over expansion of the domestic economy
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Uncle toms cabin
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-anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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Bleeding Kansas
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-a series of violent events, involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery
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Crittenden Compromise
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-unsuccessful proposal to resolve the U.S. secession crisis of 1860–1861
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Fort Sumter
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-located in Charleston harbor, South Carolina.
-known as the site upon which the shots initiating the American Civil War |
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Jefferson Davis
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-President of the Confederate States of America 1861
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Anaconda Plan
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-Proposed by General-in-Chief Winfield Scott, the plan emphasized the blockade of the Southern ports, and called for an advance down the Mississippi River to cut the South in two.
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Robert E. Lee
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-commanded the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War.
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Ulysses S Grant
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-18th president & commander of the union army
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Iron Clads
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-a steam-propelled warship
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Battle of Antietan
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-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.[4]
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Emancipation Proclamation
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- executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War proclaimed the freedom of 3.1 million of the nation's 4 million slaves, and immediately freed 50,000 of them
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54th Regement
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Morril Tariff Act 1861
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Homestead act 1862
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Legal Tender Act1862
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Pacific Rail way Act 1862
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National Bank act
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Battle of vicksburg
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Battle of Gettysburg
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Copperheads
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N.Y draft Riots1863
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Appomattox
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Trent Affair
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