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Free Soil Party
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What-a short-lived political party in the United States active in the 1848 and 1852 presidential elections, and in some state elections
When-active in the 1848 and 1852 Significance-It was 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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What-were laws passed by the United States Congress,
When-in 1793 and 1850 Significance-to provide for the return of slaves who escaped from one state into another state or territory. |
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Harriet Tubman
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Who-was an African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the American Civil War
When-during the American Civil War Significance-Tubman worked for the Union Army, first as a cook and nurse, and then as an armed scout and spy |
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Ostend Manifesto
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What- A document that described the rationale for the Unite states to purchase Cuba from Spain and implied the U.S. should declare war if refused
When-document written in 1854 Significance-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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What-created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opened new lands, repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820
When-of 1854 Significance-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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Who-one of the major events leading to the Civil War
When-leading to the Civil War Significance- 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 |
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William lloyd Garrison
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Who-was a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer
When-December 12, 1805 – May 24, 1879 Significance-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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Frederick Douglas
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Who-was an American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman
When-the Civil War Significance-After escaping from slavery, he became 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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What-is 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
When- Significance-It is closely associated to the social contract philosophers, among whom are Thomas Hobbes, John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
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Underground railroad
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What-was an informal network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century black slaves in the United States to escape to free states
When-19th-century Significance-Created in the early 19th century, the Underground Railroad was at its height between 1850 and 1860 |
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Compromise of 1850
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What-was an intricate package of five bills
When-passed in September 1850 Significance-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 |
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Dred Scott decision
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What-was a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that people of African descent imported into the United States and held as slaves were not protected by the Constitution and could never be U.S. citizens
When-1857 Significance-The court also held that the U.S. Congress had no authority to prohibit slavery in federal territories and that, because slaves were not citizens, they could not sue in court |
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Panic of 1857
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What-was a financial panic in the United States caused by the declining international economy and overexpansion of the domestic economy
When-Beginning in September of 1857 Significance-the financial downturn did not last long, however a proper recovery was not seen until the American Civil War |
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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What-an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe
When-Published in 1852 Significance-the novel "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War", according to Will Kaufman |
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Bleeding Kansas
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What-was a series of violent events, involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian" elements
When-that took place in the Kansas Territory and the western frontier towns of the U.S. state of Missouri roughly between 1854 and 1858 Significance-The United States had long struggled to balance the interests of slaveholders and abolitionists |
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Crittenden Compromise
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What-was an unsuccessful proposal by Kentucky Senator John J. Crittenden to resolve the U.S. secession crisis
When-1860–1861 Significance-They tried 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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What-is a Third System masonry coastal fortification located in Charleston harbor
When- Significance-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 |
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Jefferson Davis
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Who-was an American statesman and leader of the Confederacy during the American Civil War
When-during the American Civil War Significance-Davis fought in the Mexican-American War as a colonel of a volunteer regiment |
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Anaconda plan
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What-is the name widely applied to an outline strategy for subduing the seceding states in the American Civil War
When-in the American Civil War Significance-Proposed by General-in-Chief 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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Who-was a career United States Army officer and combat engineer
When-Lee distinguished himself as an exceptional soldier in the U.S. Army for 32 years Significance-He became the commanding general of the Confederate army in the American Civil War and a postwar icon of the South's "lost cause" |
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Ulysses S. Grant
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What-was the 18th President of the United States (1869–1877) as well as military commander during the Civil War
When- 1869–1877 Significance- after the American Civil War began, he joined the Union war effort, taking charge of training new regiments and then engaging the Confederacy near Cairo, Illinois |
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Iron Clads
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What- was a steam-propelled warship protected by iron or steel armor plates
When-in the early part of the second half of the 19th century Significance-The ironclad was developed as a result of the vulnerability of wooden warships to explosive or incendiary shells. |
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Battle of Antietam
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What- Fought near Sharpsburg, Maryland, and Antietam Creek, as part of the Maryland Campaign, was the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Northern soil
When-fought on September 17, 1862 Significance-It was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, with about 23,000 casualties |
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Emancipation Proclamation
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What-is an executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War under his war powers
When-On September 22, 1862, Lincoln announced that he would issue a formal emancipation of all slaves in any state Significance- 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 |
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54th Regiment
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Who-was an infantry regiment that saw extensive service in the Union Army during the American Civil War
When-during the American Civil War Significance-The regiment was one of the first official black units in the United States during the Civil War |
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Morrill Tariff Act 1861
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What-was an American protective tariff law adopted on March 2, 1861 during the Buchanan Administration and signed into law by President James Buchanan, a Democrat
When-adopted on March 2, 1861 Significance-The act is named after its sponsor, Representative Justin Morrill of Vermont, who drafted it with the advice of Pennsylvania economist Henry C. Carey |
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Homestead Act 1862
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What-is 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
When-The original Homestead Act was signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on May 20, 1862 Significance-The law required three steps: file an application, improve the land, and file for deed of title |
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Legal Tender act 1862
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What-was enacted to issue paper money to finance the Civil War without raising taxes
When- 1862 Significance-he paper money depreciated in terms of gold and became the subject of controversy, particularly because debts contracted earlier could be paid in this cheaper currency |
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Pacific Railway act 1862
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What-were a series of 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
When- 1862 Significance-Some of its provisions were subsequently modified, expanded, or repealed by four additional amending Acts |
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National Bank Act 1863
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Battle of Vicksburg
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Battle of Gettysburg
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Copper Heads
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New York Draft Riots 1863
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Appomattox
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