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36 Cards in this Set
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free soil party
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was a political party during the 1848 and 1852 presidental elections. drew attention from new york state and consisted of anti slavery members of the whig party and the democratic party
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fugitive slave law
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passed in 1850 in the compromise of 1850 it declared that all runaway slaves be brought back to their masters
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harriet tubman
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an escape slave that made thirteen missions to rescue more than 70 slaves using the underground railroad
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ostend manifesto
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a document written in 1854 that describes the rationale for the us to purchase cuba from spain and implied the us 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created the territories of kansas and nebraska, opened new land, repealed the missouri compromise of 1820 and allowed settlers in those territories to determine if they would allow slavety within their boundaries
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wilmot proviso
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major event leading to the civil war, would have banned slavery in any territory to be acquired from mexico in the mexican war
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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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n 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, who are the source of all political power.
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simple (adj.)
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compromise of 1850
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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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ruledby the us surpreme court that people of african desent imported to the us and held as slave were not protected by the constitution and could never be us 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.
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uncle toms cabin
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bleeding kansas
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crittenden compromise
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fort sumter
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jefferson davis
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anaconda pplan
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robert e lee
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iron clads
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battle of antietam
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emancipation proclamtion
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...........do not cover slaves in border statesn which remained in the union
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54th regiment
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morril tariff act 1861
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the law that raised rates to protect and increase wages of industrial workers
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homestead act 1862
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to give 160 ancres of under developed land to slaves and made them live there for at least five years
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legal tender act 1862
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issued paper money in order to fund the civil war without raising taxes
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pacific railroad act 1862
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promoted construction of the continental railraod
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national bank act 1863
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established national charters for the development of the national currency
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battle of vicksburg
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battle of gettysburg
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coppper heads
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new york draft riots 1863
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appamattox
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trent affair
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