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Free Soil Party
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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. This was one of the most controversial acts of the 1850 compromise and heightened Northern fears of a 'slave power conspiracy'.
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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 Manfesto
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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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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Created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opened new lands, repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820, and allowed settlers in those territories to determine if they would allow slavery within their boundaries.
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Wilmot 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 Gra
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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, he promoted "immediate emancipation" of slaves in the United States
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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.
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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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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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was an intricate 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 that arose following the Mexican-American War
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Dred Scott Decision
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commonly referred to as the Dred Scott decision, was a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that people of African descent imported into the United States and held as slaves (or their descendants,[2] whether or not they were slaves) were not protected by the Constitution and could never be U.S. citizens.
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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. Beginning in September of 1857, the financial downturn did not last long, however a proper recovery was not seen until the American Civil War.
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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", according to Will Kaufman.
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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.
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Crittenden Compromise
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was an unsuccessful proposal by Kentucky Senator John J. Crittenden to resolve the U.S. secession crisis of 1860–1861 by addressing the concerns that led the states in the Deep South of the United States to contemplate secession from the United States.
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Fort Sumter
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was the bombardment and surrender of Fort Sumter, near Charleston, South Carolina, that started the American Civil War.
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Jefferson Davis
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was an American statesman and leader of the Confederacy during the American Civil War; serving as the President for its entire history.
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Anaconda Plan
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s the name widely applied to 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 a career United States Army officer and combat engineer. He became the commanding general of the Confederate army in the American Civil War and a postwar icon of the South's "lost cause". A top graduate of West Point, Lee distinguished himself as an exceptional soldier in the U.S. Army for 32 years.
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Ulysses Grant
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was the 18th President of the United States (1869–1877) as 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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Iron Clads
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a steam-propelled warship in the early part of the second half of the 19th century, protected by iron or steel armor plates.
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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. 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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s an executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War under his war powers.
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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
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Law that raised rates to protect an encouraged industry to increase wages of industrial workers.
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Homestead Act
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Was to give 16 0 acres under developed federal land which included free slaves 21 years old or older, required to live on the land for 5 years.
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Legal Tender Act
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Inactive to create and issue paper money to finance a civil war without raising taxes
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Robert E. Lee
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was a career United States Army officer and combat engineer. He became the commanding general of the Confederate army in the American Civil War and a postwar icon of the South's "lost cause". A top graduate of West Point, Lee distinguished himself as an exceptional soldier in the U.S. Army for 32 years.
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Ulysses Grant
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was the 18th President of the United States (1869–1877) as 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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Iron Clads
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a steam-propelled warship in the early part of the second half of the 19th century, protected by iron or steel armor plates.
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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. 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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s an executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War under his war powers.
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Pacific Railway Act
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act that promoted the construction of the transcontinental railroad in the United States through authorizing the issuance of government bonds and the grants of land to railroad companies.
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National Bank Act
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Established national charters for banks they developed a 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.
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Battle of Gettysburg
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Pennsylvania. The battle with the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War[7], it is often described as the war's turning point
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Copperheads
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were a vocal group of Democrats in the Northern United States wanting an immediate peace settlement with the Confederates.
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New York Draft Riots
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were violent disturbances in New York City that were the culmination of discontent with new laws passed by Congress to draft men to fight in the ongoing American Civil War.
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Appomattox
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fought on the morning of April 9, 1865, was the final engagement of Confederate States Army General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia before it surrendered to the Union Army under Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, and one of the last battles of the American Civil War
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Trent Affair
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Also known as the Mason and Slidell Affair, was an international diplomatic incident that occurred during the American Civil War.
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