Chapter 14

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free soil party

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*short-lived political party in the United States active in the 1848 and 1852 presidential elections
*Its main purpose = 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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* 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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*African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the American Civil War
*After escaping from slavery, 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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*described the reason for the United States to purchase Cuba from Spain and implied the U.S. should declare war if Spain refused
*debates over slavery in the United States, Manifest Destiny, and the Monroe Doctrine, the Ostend Manifesto proposed a shift in foreign policy

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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*created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opened new lands, repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820
* it allowed settlers in that area to determine if they allowed slaves in there boundaries
*to create opportunities for a Mideastern Transcontinental Railroad

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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

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william lloyd garrison

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*American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer
*best known as the editor " 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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ulysses S. grant

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*was the 18th President of the United States
*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 States of America

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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

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underground 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 who were sympathetic to their cause

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cmopromise of 1850

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dred scott decision

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uncle tom's cabin

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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, that took place in the Kansas Territory
* between 1854-1858
*conflict was the question of whether Kansas would enter the Union as a free state or slave state

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crittenden compromise

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*a proposal that didnt work to reslove the U.S. Secession crsis of 1860-1861 addressing the concrens that led to the states in the Deep south of the united states

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fort sumter

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*best known as the site upon which the shots initiating the American Civil War were fired

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Jefferson Davis

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*American statesman and leader of the Confederacy during the American Civil War
*fought in the Mexican-American War as a colonel of a volunteer regiment, and was the United States Secretary of War under President Franklin Pierce

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Anaconda Plan

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*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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*career United States Army officer and combat engineer
*became the commanding general of the Confederate army in the American Civil War and a postwar 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 Antietam

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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
*was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, with about 23,000 casualties

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54th Regiment

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*infantry regiment that saw extensive service in the Union Army during the American Civil War
*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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*American protective tariff law adopted on March 2, 1861
*raised rates to protect and encourage industry and the high wages of industrial workers
*replaced the low Tariff of 1857, which was written to benefit the South

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Battle of Vicksburg

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Battle of Gettysburg

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Copper Heads

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New York Draft Riot 1863

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Appomattox

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Trent Affair

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homestead act of 1862

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was to give 160 acres of under developed federal land which included freed slaves who were 21 yrs. old or older . required to live on it for 5 years

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Legal tender act of 1862

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enacted to issue paper money to finance the civil war wihtout rasing taxes

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emanci[pation

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emancipation of all slave states and federte states . did not cover slaves in border states , which reminaed in the union

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Pacific Railway Act of 1862

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promoted the constrution of the transcontietla railraod through the government bonds

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national bank

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est. national charters for banks , encourage the development of a national curreny