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 was opposing slavery expansion into the western territories, called for a homestead act and a tariff for revenue only, leadership consisted by former anti-slavery groups such as the Whig Party and the Democratic Party

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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 states and Northern Free-soilers, declared that all runaway slaves be brought back to their masters, also called the "bloodhound law" since bloodhound were used to track down the runaway slaves.

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Harriet Tubman

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African- American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the Civil War, made thirteen missions to save slaves using the Underground railroad

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Ostend Manifesto

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a document written in 185, described the rationale for the United States to purchase Cuba from Spain and declare war if Spain refused,

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Kansas Nebraska Act

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created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820, allowed settlers in those territories to determine if they would allow slavery within their boundaries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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major events leading the Civil War, would have banned slavery in any territory to be acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War, David Wilmot first introduced the Proviso in the US House of Represntatives on August 8

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William Lloyd Garrison

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prominent american abolitionist, jouranlist and social reformer, editor of the liberator, founders of the Anit-slavery society.

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Frederick Douglas

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American soical reformer, orator writer and statesman, after escaping slavery he became leader of the abolitionist movement

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Popular sovereignty

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belief that the legitimacy of the state created by the will or consent of its people, who are the source of all political power, closely associated with the social contract among them thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Underground railroad

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informal network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th century black slaves in the US to escape to free states and Canada

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Compromise of 1850

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five bills, passed in September 1850

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Dred Scott Decision

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ruling by the U.S. supreme court, people of African Descent imported in to the U.S. and held as slaves were not protected by the Constitution and held as slaves were not protected by the Consitution and could never be U.S. citizens. One part of the Dred Scott case was overruled in the fourteenth amendment.

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Uncle Tom's Cabin

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Anti-slavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, helped lay the background for the civil war. depicts the reality of slavery, fuled the abolition cause

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Bleeding Kansas

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series of violent events involving the anti-slavery free-staters and pro-slavery elements that took place in the Kansas Territory and the western frontier towns of the U.S. state of Missouri, the conlifct was whether Kansas should be a free state or a slave state.

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Crittenden Compromise

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unsuccessful proposal by Kentucky Senator John J. Crittenden, it was to resolve the U.S. secession crisis of1860-1861

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Fort Sumter

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Panic of 1857

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financial panic in the U.S. caused by declining international economy and overexpansion of the domestic economy, financial panic quickly spread as business began to fail, railroad industries began to experience financial declines and hundreds of workers were laid off

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Jefferson Davis

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american statesman and leader of the confederacy during the civil war,represented the state of Mississippi, argued against secession but agreed that each state was sovereign and had an unquestionable right to secede from the Union

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Anaconda Plan

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Robert E. Lee

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Ulysses S. Grant

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Iron Clads

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steam propelled war ship

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Battle of Antietam

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antietam creek, sharpsburg,maryland, first major battle

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Emancipation Proclamation

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emancipation of all slave states and federate states did niot cover slaves in border states which remained in the union

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54th Regiment

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Morril tariff act 1861

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law that raised rates to protect and increase wages of industrial workers

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Homestead Act 1862

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give 160 acres of under developed federal land,free land if required to live on the land fopr five years

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Legal Tender Act 1862

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enacted paper money to finance the civil war without raising taxes

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Pacific railway Act 1862

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prpmoted the consturction of the transcontinental railroad

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national Bank Act 1863

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established national charterss for banks and encouraged the development of the nationa currency

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Battle of Vicksburg

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Battle of Gettysburg

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Copperheads

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New York Draft Riots 1863

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Appomattox

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Trent Affairs

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