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free soil party
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was a short-lived political party in the United States active in the 1848 and 1852 presidential elections, and in some state elections
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Fugitive Slave law
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was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers.
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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. Cuba's annexation had long been a goal of U.S. expansionists, particularly as the U.S. set its sights southward following the admission of California to the Union
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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created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opened new lands, repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820, and allowed settlers in those territories to determine if they would allow slavery within their boundaries.
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Wilmont Proviso
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one of the major events leading to the Civil War, 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 Lloyd Garrison
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was a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer. 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,
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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, gaining renown for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writing. He stood as a living counter-example to slaveholders' arguments that slaves did not have the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens. He became a major speaker for the cause of abolition.
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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, who are the source of all political power. It is closely associated to the social contract philosophers, among whom are Thomas Hobbes, John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Popular sovereignty expresses a concept and does not necessarily reflect or describe a political reality
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Underground Railroad
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was 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.
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Compromise of 1850
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CREATED BY HENRY CLAY, CALIFORNIA SHOULD REMAIN AS A FREE STATE, HOWEVER GOVERNMENT SHOULD TIGHTEN FUGITIVE Slaves LAW
WILMOT PROBISO 1846 BAN SLAVERY IN NEW territory |
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Dred Scott Decision
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African descent imported into the United States and held as 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. Furthermore, the Court ruled that slaves, as chattels or private property, could not be taken away from their owners without due process.
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Panic of 1857
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was 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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is 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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was a series of violent events, involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian" elements, that took place in the Kansas Territory and the western frontier towns of the U.S. state of Missouri roughly between 1854 and 1858. At the heart of the conflict was the question of whether Kansas would enter the Union as a free state or slave state.
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Critteden Compromise
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was a series of violent events, involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian" elements, that took place in the Kansas Territory and the western frontier towns of the U.S. state of Missouri roughly between 1854 and 1858. At the heart of the conflict was the question of whether Kansas would enter the Union as a free state or slave state.
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Forrt Sumter
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was the bombardment and surrender of Fort Sumter, near Charleston, South Carolina, that started the American Civil War. Following declarations of secession by seven Southern states, South Carolina demanded that the U.S. Army abandon its facilities in Charleston Harbor.
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Jefferson Davis
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Davis was born in 1808, father served in the independence war, attended transivalnia university in Lexington and west point university served in the US. Army in the Mexican war, served in the black … married the daughter of Zachary Taylor. Owned a plantation in Mississippi, very pro slavery and southerner.
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Anaconda Plan
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Proposed by Winfield Scott Its purpose was to …, the seceded state, it called for the blockade of southern ports and take over the Mississippi.
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Robert E. Lee
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was the general comander of the confederate forces fduring the civil war.
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Ulysses S. Grant
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was the general comander of the union forces fduring the civil war.
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Iron clads
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were created during the civil war, were intended to replace normal woodenships. this ships were part of the 19th century industrialization. during the battle of the monitor and the virginia, civil war time, neither of both ships could sink.
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Battle of Antietam
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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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emancipation of al states in confedarte states do not cover slaves in border states, which remain in the union.
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54th regiment
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was an infantry regiment that saw extensive service in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The regiment was one of the first official black units in the United States during the Civil War.
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Morril tariff Act 1861
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law which rise rates to protect and icourage industry. to ibcrese wages in the industrial workers.
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Homestead act 1862
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intended as a progressive measure, permitted settlers to buy plots of 160 acres for a small fee, if they occupied the land by purchasing and improving it. It would also give free farm to any American, who needed one, and it would give relief to people who might have no prospect. included free slaves over 21 years old.
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Legal tender act 1862
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enacted, to created or issue paper money to finance civl war withourtt rising taxes.
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Pacific Railway act 1862
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promoted the construction of the transcontinentla railroad, through government grants and land to the railroad company.
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National Bank Act 1863
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established national charter for banks, and incourage the development of national currency.
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Battle of Vicksburg
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was the final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War. In a series of 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 the defensive lines surrounding the fortress city of Vicksburg, Mississippi.
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battle Gettysburg
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The battle with the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War[7], it is often described as the war's turning point.[8] Union Maj. Gen. George Gordon Meade's Army of the Potomac defeated attacks by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, ending Lee's invasion of the North.
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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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