Chapter 14

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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. It was a third party that largely appealed to and drew its greatest strength from New York State.

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Fugitive Slave Law

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.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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.Runaway slave that lead a pack of runaway slaves through he underground railroad to the north.

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Ostend Manifesto

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.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.created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opened new lands, repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820, and allowed settlers in those territories to determine if they would allow slavery within their boundaries.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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.a document that almost banned slavery in territory gained by the U.S. from Mexico

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William Lloyd Garrison

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.a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer.

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Frederick Douglas

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.an American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman.

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Popular Sovereighty

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.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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a secret passageway that runaway slaves took to get to the north to gain freedom.

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Compromise of 1850

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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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.was a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that people of African descent imported into the United States and held as slaves.

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Panic of 1857

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.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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an anti-slavery book that was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Bleeding Kansas

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.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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.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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.a Third System masonry coastal fortification located in Charleston harbor, South Carolina.

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Jefferson Davis

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.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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.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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.the commanding general for the confederates in the civil war

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Ulysses S. Grant

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.the commanding general for the union in the civil war

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Iron Clads

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almost indestructable warships used by both the union and the confederacy in the civil war.

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Battle of Antietam

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.ought 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.

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Emancipation Proclomation

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emancipation of all slaves in confederate slaves did not cover slaves in border states which remained in the union.

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54th Regiment

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.an infantry regiment that saw extensive service in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

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Morril Tariff Act 1861

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a law that raised rates to protect and encourage industry, increased wages for workers.

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Humestead Act 1862

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to give 160 acres of undeveloped federal land, which included free slaves who were 21 years or older required to live on the land for five years.

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Legal Tender Act 1862

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inacted to issue paper money to finance the civil war without raising taxes.

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Pacific Railway Act 1862

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promoted the construction of the transcontinental railroad through government bonds and grants of land.

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National Bank Act 1863

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established national charters for banks encouraged the development of a national currency.

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Battle of Vicksburg

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.the final major military operation in the civil war that was won by the union.

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Battle of Gettysburg

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the major turning point in the civil war that had the most casualties and settled the dispute over slavery.

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Copperheads

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.a vocal group of Democrats in the Northern United States who opposed the American Civil War, wanting an immediate peace settlement with the Confederates.

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New York Draft Riots 1863

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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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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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.an international diplomatic incident that occurred during the American Civil War.