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36 Cards in this Set
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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
-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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-one of the most controversial acts of the 1850 compromise and heightened Northern fears of a 'slave power conspiracy
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Harriet Tubman
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-an African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the American Civil War.
- After escaping from slavery, into which she was born, she made thirteen missions to rescue more than 70 slaves[1] using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad |
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Ostend Manifesto
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-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. Cuba's annexation had long been a goal of U.S. expansionists, particularly as the U.S. set its sights southward following the admission of California to the Union
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Kansas Nebraska Act
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-of 1854
-created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opened new lands, repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820, and allowed settlers in those territories to determine if they would allow slavery within their boundaries |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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-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, including the area later known as the Mexican Cession
-including lands in south Texas and New Mexico east of the Rio Grande |
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William Lloyd Garrison
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-believed in antislavery
-started a news paper called the Liberator |
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Frederick Douglas
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-American social reformer, orator, writer and statesmanbecame a leader of -the abolitionist movement, gaining renown for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writing
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Popular Sovereignty
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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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-vast network of people who helped fugitive slaves escape to the North and to Canada, was not run by any single organization or person
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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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Dred Scott Decision
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-a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that people of African descent imported into the United States and held as slaves (or their descendants,[2] whether or not they were slaves) were not protected by the Constitution and could never be U.S. citizens
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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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Bleeding Kansas
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Crittenden Compromise
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Fort Sumter
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Jefferson Davis
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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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Battle of Antietam
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Emancipation Proclamation
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Morril Tariff Act 1861
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Homestead Act 1862
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Legal Tender Act 1862
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Pacific Railway Act 1862
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National Bank Act 1863
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Battle of Vicksburg
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Battle Gettysburg
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Copperheads
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New York Draft Riots 1863
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Appamattox
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Trent Affair
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