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Free soil party
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The Free Soil Party was a short-lived political party in the United States active in the 1848 and 1852 presidential elections, and in some state elections. It was a third party that largely appealed to and drew its greatest strength from New York State. The party leadership consisted of former anti-slavery members of the Whig Party and the Democratic Party. Its main purpose was opposing the expansion of slavery into the western territories
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fugitive slave law
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were laws passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and 1850 to provide for the return of slaves who escaped from one state into another state or territory.
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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[1] using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad
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Ostend Manifesto
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was 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.
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morill tariff act 1861
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a law that raised rates to protect and increase wages.
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homestead act 1862
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a law that gave 160 acres of underdeveloped land, which included free slaves 21 or older. that required to live on the land for a minimum of 5 years or more.
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legal tender act 1862
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an act to issue paper money to finance the civil war without raising taxes.
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pacific railway act 1862
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the construction of the continental railroad being funded through the government.
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national bank act 1863
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establish national charters for banks and encouraged the developement of a national currency.
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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.
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wilmot proviso
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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.
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william lloyd 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.
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emancipation proclamation
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the freeing of slaves in northern areas of america.
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frederick douglas
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was an American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman. After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement.
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popular sovereignty
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is the belief that the legitimacy of the state is created by the will or consent of its people.
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underground railroad
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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.
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compromise of 1850
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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.
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dred scott decision
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was a decision that ruled african americans as not citizens to the state.
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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 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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series of violent events, involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian" elements.
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crittenden compromise
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consisted of six proposed constitutional amendments and four proposed Congressional resolutions. Both the House of Representatives and the Senate rejected it in 1861.
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fort sumter
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a Third System masonry coastal fortification located in Charleston harbor, South Carolina.
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jefferson davis
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an American statesman and leader of the Confederacy during the American Civil War.
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