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.

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Fuigitive Slave laws

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Laws passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and 1850 to provide for the return of slaves who escaped from one state into another state or territory.

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Harrued tubman

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African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the American Civil War.

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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created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opened new lands, repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820

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Wilmot proviso

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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

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Willliam Lloyd Garrison

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A prominent American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer.He is known as the editor of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator

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Federick Douglas

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American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman. After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement,

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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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An informal network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century black slaves in the United States to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists who were sympathetic to their cause.

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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 1846–1848.

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Died Scott Decision

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went to trial to sue for his freedom in 1847.

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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 novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War", according to Will Kaufman.

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Bleeding kansas

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Bleeding kansas

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Critteden 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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Winfield Scott, the plan emphasized the blockade of the Southern ports, and called for an advance down the Mississippi River to cut the South in two.

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Robert E. Lee

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a career United States Army officer and combat engineer; general of the Confederate army in the American Civil War

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Ulysses S. Grant

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The 18th President of the United States (1869–1877) as well as military commander during the Civil War and post-war Reconstruction periods.

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Ironclads

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A steam-propelled warship in the early part of the second half of the 19th century, protected by iron or steel armor plates

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Battle of antietam

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known as the Battle of Sharpsburg,fought on September 17, 1862

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Emancipation proclamation

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an executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War under his war powers

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54th Regiment

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one of the first official black of the unit during the civil war

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morril tariff Act 1861

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protected terraft,raised to protect and encourage, and the way of industry workers

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Homestead act 1862

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gave 160 acres undeveloped federal land which included free slaves that live for minimum 5 years

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Legal tender act 1862

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was created to issue paper money, finance civil war without raising taxes

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pacific Railway act 1862

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promoted of construction of the continental railroad government bombs and grand of land to get railroads companies

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national Bank act 1863

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establish national charter of banks and encourage the development national curacy

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Battle of Vicksburg

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the final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War.

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battle of Gettysburg

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fought on July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

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copperhead

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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 Massachusetts war

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trent affair

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known as the Mason and Slidell Affair, was an international diplomatic incident that occurred during the American Civil War.

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