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What is Free Soil Party?
A short-lived political party in the United States active in the 1848 & 1852 presidential elections & in some state elections.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
Passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850. Part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave holding interests & Northern Free-Soilers.
Who was Harriet Tubman?
An African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, & Union spy during the American Civil War.A runaway slave from Maryland who became known as the Moses of slaves.
What is the Ostend Manifesto?
-A document written in 1854 that described the rationale for the United States to purchase Cuba from Spain & implied the U.S. should declare war if Spain refused.
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
-Created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opened new lands. --Repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820 & allowed settlers in those territories to determine if they would allow slavery within their boundaries.
What was 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.
Who was William Lloyd Garrison?
-A prominent American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer.
-Best known as the editor of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator.
-One of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society.
-Promoted "immediate emancipation" of slaves in the United States.
Who was Frederick Douglas?
-An American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman.
-Escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement.
- He gained renowned for his dazzling oratory & incisive antislavery writing.
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пое'сть (perf.)
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What is the Underground Railroad?
-An informal network of secret routes & safe houses used by 19th-century black slaves in the United States to escape to free states & Canada with the aid of abolitionists who were sympathetic.
What was the Dred Scott decision?
-First went to trial to sue for his freedom in 1847.
-Ten years later, after a decade of appeals and court reversals, his case was finally brought before the United States Supreme Court.
What was the Panic of 1857?
-A financial panic in the United States caused by the declining international economy & over-expansion of the domestic economy.
What was Uncle Tom's Cabin?
-An anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe.
-Published in 1852, the novel contributed to lay the groundwork for the Civil War.
What was Bleeding Kansas?
-A series of violent events, involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery.
-It took place in the Kansas Territory and the western frontier towns of the United States of Missouri roughly between 1854 and 1858.
What was the Crittenden Compromise?
- An unsuccessful proposal by Kentucky Senator John J. Crittenden to resolve the United States secession crisis of 1860–1861.
-It addressed the concerns that led the states in the Deep South of the United States to contemplate secession from the United States.
What was Fort Sumter?
-AThird System masonry coastal fortification located in Charleston harbor, South Carolina.
-The fort is best known as the site upon which the shots initiating the American Civil War were fired, at the Battle of Fort Sumter.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
-An American statesman and leader of the Confederacy during the American Civil War; serving as the President for its entire history.
-A West Point graduate.
-Davis fought in the Mexican-American War as a colonel of a volunteer regiment, and was the United States Secretary of War under President Franklin Pierce.
What was the Anaconda Plan?
- It drawn up by General Winfield Scott to end the American Civil War in favor of the North.
-The plan was never officially adopted by the Union, but elements of it were employed throughout the course of the war.
-It consisted of four main parts.
Who was Robert E. Lee?
-A career the 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".
-Best known for having commanded the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
- Known as the great Union military hero of the Civil War.
-Also served two terms as U.S. president.

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What was iron clads?
-Had multiple types of ironclads, most notably the monitors for coastal and river operations.
-They also had a small number of Mississipi river ironclads.
What was the Battle of Antietam?
-It was also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly in the South.
-Fought on September 17, 1862.
-It was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, with about 23,000 casualties.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
- An executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War under his war powers.
-It proclaimed the freedom of 3.1 million of the nation's 4 million slaves, and immediately freed 50,000 of them, with the rest freed as Union armies advanced.
What was the 54th regiment?
-A 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.
What was the Morril Tariff Act of 1861?
-The law that raised rates to protect and encourage industry and to increase wages of industrial workers.
What was the the Homestead Act 1862?
-Give 160 acres of underdeveloped federal land which included free slaves.
What was the Legal Tender Act of 1862?
Inacted issue of money in order to finance the civil war; issued paper money to finance the civil war without raising taxes.
What was the Pacific Railway Act of 1862?
-Promoted the construction of the trans-continental railroad with government bonds and grants of land to the railroad companies.
What was the National Bank Act of 1863?
-Established National charters for banks and encouraged the development of a national currency.
What was the Battle of Vicksburg?
-The final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War.
What was the Battle of Gettysburg?
-Fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
-The battle with the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War.
-Often described as the war's turning point.
Who were the Copperheads?
-A vocal group of Democrats in the Northern United States.
-Opposed the American Civil War, wanting an immediate peace settlement with the Confederates.
What was the New York Draft Riots 1863?
-Known at the time as Draft Week; there 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.
What was the Appomattox?
-Fought on the morning of April 9, 1865.
-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.
-One of the last battles of the American Civil War.
What was the Trent Affair?
-Also known as the Mason and Slidell Affair.
An international diplomatic incident that occurred during the American Civil War.
-On November 8, 1861, the USS San Jacinto, commanded by Union Captain Charles Wilkes, intercepted the British mail packet Trent and removed as contraband of war two Confederate diplomats.