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What is Free Soil Party ?
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Minor but influential 19th-century U.S. political party that opposed the extension of slavery into the western territories. In 1846 proponents of the Wilmot Proviso and other antislavery factions formed a party; in 1848 it nominated former president Martin Van Buren to head its ticket. Though Van Buren lost, many party supporters were elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. By 1854 the party was absorbed into the Republican Party.
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What is the fugitive slave law ?
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The law stated that in future any federal marshal who did not arrest an alleged runaway slave could be fined $1,000. People suspected of being a runaway slave could be arrested without warrant and turned over to a claimant on nothing more than his sworn testimony of ownership. A suspected black slave could not ask for a jury trial nor testify on his or her behalf.
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Who is Harriet Tubman ?
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Harriet Tubman helped hundreds of American slaves escape along the secret route to freedom known as the Underground Railroad. Born a slave herself, she fled from Maryland to freedom in Philadelphia in 1849
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Wat is Ostend Manifesto ?
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Southerners wanted an aggressive policy with Spanish-ruled Cuba, by having the island become a possible new slave state. In October 1854, three Americans "one of which was the American minister to Spain, Pierre Soule' of Louisiana" composed a document on Cuba and called it the Ostend Man.
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What is the Kansas Nebraska Act ?
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The act of Congress in 1854 annulling the Missouri Compromise, providing for the organization of the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, and permitting these territories self-determination on the question of slavery.
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Who is Wilmot Proviso ?
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The Wilmot Proviso , 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,
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Who is William Lloyd Garrison ?
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Publisher of the newspaper The Liberator, William Lloyd Garrison was a famously fierce opponent of slavery in the two decades preceding the American Civil War.
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Who is Frederick Douglas ?
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Frederick Douglass was a former slave who became one of the great American anti-slavery leaders of the 1800s. Douglass was born into slavery in Maryland but in 1838, at age 20, he escaped to freedom
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What is Popular Sovereignty ?
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The doctrine that sovereign power is vested in the people and that those chosen to govern, as trustees of such power, must exercise it in conformity with the general will
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What is the Underground Railroad ?
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The underground railroad was an escape route for slaves to leave the southern states and head to the northern states for freedom.
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What is the Compromise of 1850 ?
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The Compromise of 1850 consisted of 5 bills that avoided a civil war between the southern slave states and the northern free states. It stayed in place for 4 years until the Kansas-Nebraska act was placed into effect.
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What is the Dred Scott Decision ?
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Dred Scott was the name of an African-American slave. In March of 1857, Scott lost the decision as seven out of nine Justices on the Supreme Court declared no slave or descendant of a slave could be a U.S. citizen.
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What is the Panic of 1857 ?
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The Panic of 1857 was a sudden downturn in the economy of the United States that occurred in 1857. A general recession first emerged late in 1856, but the successive failure of banks and businesses.
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What is Uncle Tom's Cabin ?
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Uncle Tom's Cabin is a story about a Christian black man by the name of Tom who was sold in the slave trade, the story follows him from his childhood right to the very end. Very good book :). It was written by Harriet Beecher Bowes in 1852.
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What is Bleeding Kansas ?
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Bleeding Kansas" was a nickname given to Kansas prior to the United States' Civil War due to the conflicts between pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups. While these conflicts started out as intimidation and vandalism, they eventually escalated into the bloodshed.
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What is the Crittenden Compromise ?
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The Crittenden Compromise was perhaps the last-ditch effort to resolve the secession crisis of 1860-61 by political negotiation. ... The Compromise, as offered on December 18, 1860, consisted of a preamble, six (proposed) constitutional amendments, and four (proposed) Congressional resolutions.
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What is Fort Summer ?
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The US Fort in Charleston Harbor that was the site where the first shots of the Civil War were fired.
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Who is Jefferson Davis ?
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Jefferson Davis was the only president of the Confederate States of America, the group of southern states that seceded from the United States and prompted the Civil War (1861-65). Davis was born in Kentucky.
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What is the Anaconda Plan ?
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The Anaconda Plan was a military strategy proposed by Union General Winfield Scott early in the American Civil War.The plan called for a naval blockade of the Confederate littoral, a thrust down the Mississippi, and the strangulation of the South by Union land and naval forces.
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Who is Robert E. Lee ?
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Robert E. Lee was an Army officer who was asked by President Lincoln to lead the Union army, and declined. He went on to lead the Confederacy and served under President Davis.
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Who is Ulysses S. Grant ?
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The great Union military hero of the Civil War, Ulysses Grant also served two terms as U.S. president. Grant came from humble beginnings in small-town Ohio; his father was a tanner.
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What are Iron Clads ?
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Find Metal Manufacturing Companies From The Leading Industrial Source.
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What is the Battle of Antietam ?
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The Battle of Antietam forced the Confederate Army to retreat back across the Potomac River. President Lincoln saw the significance of this and issued the famous Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862.
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What is the Emancipation Proclamation ?
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The Emancipation Proclamation was issued by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863. Its purpose was to free the slaves that were under control of the states in the Confederacy.
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What is the 54th Regiment ?
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One unit that insisted on fighting without pay was the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, one of the first African American regiments organized to the north. earned its greatest fame in July 1863, when it led a heroic attack on Fort Wagner in South Carolina.
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What is the Morril Tariff Act of 1861 ?
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The Morrill Tariff of 1861 was an American protective tariff law adopted on March 2, 1861 during the Buchanan Administration and signed into law by President James Buchanan, a Democrat.
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What is the Homestead Act of 1862 ?
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The homestead act was a federal law that granted 160 acres of undeveloped land outside of the 13 colonies to a homesteader. The homesteader had to live on and improve the land.
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What is the Legal Tender Act of 1862 ?
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The very day that the two appointees were nominated, the Supreme Court announced its decision in Hepburn v. Griswold (1870), a case that involved the constitutionality of the Legal Tender Act of 1862. The court, in a 5–3 vote (including a vote for the majority by the ailing Grier), struck down the Legal Tender...
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What is the Pacific Railway Act of 1862 ?
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The Pacific Railroad Act, passed by Congress in 1862 (12 Stat. 489), authorized the construction of the first transcontinental railway line connecting the east and west coasts.
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What is the National Bank Act of 1863 ?
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The National Bank Act of 1863 was designed to create a national banking system, float federal war loans, and establish a national banking system.
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What is the Battle Of Vicksburg ?
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The siege and battle of Vicksburg, Mississippi, took place in the spring of 1863 during the American Civil War. The Union Army under General U. S. Grant forced the Confederates into the city of Vicksburg.
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What is the Battle of Gettysburg ?
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Lee decided to gamble to win the Battle of Gettysburg and in effect win the Civil War by attacking the next day at the center of the Union line along Cemetery Ridge where it would be least expected. To do this he would send in the fresh troops of Gen.
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What is the Copperheads ?
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Copperhead snakes are often confused with a rat snake, which isn't venomous unlike the copperhead. Copperheads can grow up to 36", and have a pinkish-tan color with black hourglass figures on it's back.
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What is the New York Draft Riots of 1863 ?
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After the Battle of Gettysburg July 1863, many people began to see the horrors of war and due to the high number of casualties at the battle, many people were opposed to drafting, so anti conscription riots broke out in New York, however these quickly turned into Anti-Immigrant riots.
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What is the Appomattax ?
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Appomattox is a city in Western Virginia. In 1865, General Grant chased General Lee there, and forced him to surrender at Appomattox Court House. This Union victory, all but, ended the American Civil War, 1861 - 1865.
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What is the Trent Affair ?
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The Trent Affair was an incident during the American Civil War involving the doctrine of freedom of the seas, which nearly precipitated war between Great Britain and the United States.
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