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, and in some state elections

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fugitive slave laws

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a law that the north made in which they would control slaves and make sure that they do not escape and would be returned to the south

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Harriet Tubman

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slave woman who helped with slave uprisings

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ostand manifesto

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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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kansnas 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created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opened new lands, repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820, and allowed settlers in those territories to determine if they would allow slavery within their boundaries.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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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

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William llyod garrison

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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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fedrick dougles

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famous slave who attempted many slave uprising

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popular sovereignty

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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. It is closely associated to the social contract philosophers,

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underground railroad

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a path that was used to transport slave not really underground

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compromise of 1850

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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). The compromise, drafted by Whig Henry Clay and brokered by Democrat Stephen Douglas

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dried scotty dereerson

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a man who was against the slave acts and did want the union to be united

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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 toms cabin

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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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bloodiest battle of the civil war

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ortindenans compromise

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when they began an argument on on a land that was in the confederate states

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fort sumpter

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On December 26, 1860, six days after South Carolina declared its secession, U.S. Army Major Robert Anderson abandoned the indefensible Fort Moultrie and secretly relocated companies E and H (

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Jefferson's 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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to block off the trade routes of the south

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robert e lee

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a confederate general

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ulyesses s grant

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a general for the union

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iron clads

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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 the town

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fought in spetember 17 1862

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emancipation proclamation

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freed the slaves

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fifty regiment

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Fifty-fourth regiment Alabama infantry, formerly Fourth Confederate infantry, when first organized was called Fiftieth, but changed afterward to Fifty-fourth, formed from six companies, First Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee infantry, and four companies

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maril tariff act 1861

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American protective tariff law adopted on March 2, 1861 during the Buchanan Administration and signed into law by President James Buchanan, a Democrat. The act is named after its sponsor, Representative Justin Morrill of Vermont,

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homestead act 1862

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one of two United States federal laws that gave an applicant freehold title to up to 160 acres (65 hectares or one-fourth section) of undeveloped federal land west of the Mississippi River. The law required three steps: file an application, improve the land, and file for deed of title.

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pacific railroad act

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acts of Congress that promoted the construction of the transcontinental railroad in the United States through authorizing the issuance of government bonds and the grants of land to railroad companies.

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national bank act 1863

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United States federal laws that established a system of national charters for banks, the United States national banks. They encouraged development of a national currency based on bank holdings of U.S. Treasury securities, the so-called National Bank Notes ("greenbacks") and established the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency as part of the Department of the Treasury and authorized the Comptroller

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legal tender act 1862

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cases in the latter part of the nineteenth century that affirmed the constitutionality of paper money. In the 1870 case of Hepburn v. Griswold, the Court had held that paper money violated the United States Constitution. The Legal Tender Cases reversed Hepburn, beginning with Knox v. Lee and Parker v. Davis in 1871

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pacific railroad act

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acts of Congress that promoted the construction of the transcontinental railroad in the United States through authorizing the issuance of government bonds and the grants of land to railroad companies

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battle of vicik burg

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n a series of maneuvers, Union Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and his Army of the Tennessee crossed the Mississippi River and drove the Confederate army of Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton into the defensive lines surrounding the fortress city of Vicksburg, Mississippi.

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battle at Gettysburg

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was 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

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copperheads

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vocal group of Democrats in the Northern United States (see also Union (American Civil War)) who opposed the American Civil War, wanting an immediate peace settlement with the Confederates

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new york daft rots

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n 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. The riots were the largest civil insurrection in American history apart from the Civil War itself.

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appomator

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a town in Appomattox County, Virginia, United States. The population was 1,761 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Appomattox County.

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trent affair

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was 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, James Mason and John Slidell