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36 Cards in this Set
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Free Soil Party
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Minor but influential 19th-century U.S. political party that opposed the extension of slavery into the western territories
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Fugitive Slave Law
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The law stated that in future any federal marshal who did not arrest an alleged runaway slave could be fined $1,000
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Harriet Tubman
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Harriet Tubman was an African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the American Civil War
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Ostend Manifesto
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The Ostend Manifesto was 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
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The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opened new lands, repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820, and allowed settlers in those territories to determine if they would allow slavery within their boundaries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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The 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 , including the area later known as the Mexican Cession, but which some proponents construed to also include the disputed lands in south Texas and New Mexico east of the Rio Grande
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William Lloyd Garrison
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William Lloyd Garrison was a prominent 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, he promoted "immediate emancipation" of slaves in the United States
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Frederick Douglas
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Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman. 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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Popular sovereignty 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
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Underground Railroad
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A secret cooperative network that aided fugitive slaves in reaching sanctuary in the free states or in Canada in the years before the abolition of slavery in the United States
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Compromise of 1850
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The Compromise of 1850 was 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
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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 were not protected by the Constitution and could never be U.S. citizens
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Panic of 1857
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The Panic of 1857 was 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
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Bleeding Kansas
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Bleeding Kansas was a series of violent events, involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian" elements, that took place in the Kansas Territory and the western frontier towns of the U.S. state of Missouri roughly between 1854 and 1858
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Crittenden Compromise
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The Crittenden Compromise was 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 The Crittenden Compromise was 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 UnitedThe Crittenden Compromise was 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 UnitedThe Crittenden Compromise was 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 UnitedThe Crittenden Compromise was 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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Fort Sumter is a Third 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
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Jefferson Davis
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Jefferson Davis was 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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an outline strategy for subduing the seceding states in the American Civil War. 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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Robert Edward Lee was a career 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 of the South's "lost cause"
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Ulysses S. Grant
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Ulysses S. Grant was the 18th President of the United States as well as military commander during the Civil War and post-war Reconstruction periods
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Iron Clads
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An ironclad was 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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Anaconda Plan
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an outline strategy for subduing the seceding states in the American Civil War. 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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Robert Edward Lee was a career 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 of the South's "lost cause"
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Ulysses S. Grant
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Ulysses S. Grant was the 18th President of the United States as well as military commander during the Civil War and post-war Reconstruction periods
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Iron Clads
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An ironclad was 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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the batte was fought on September 17, 1862, 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
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Emancipation Proclamation
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The Emancipation Proclamation is 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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The 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that saw extensive service in the Union Army during the American Civil War
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National Bank Act 1863
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The National Bank Acts were two United States federal laws that established a system of national charters for banks, the United States national banks
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The Battle of Vicksburg
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From mid-Oct. 1862, Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant made several attempts to take Vicksburg. Following failures in the first attempts, the Battle of Chickasaw Bluffs, the Yazoo Pass Expedition, and Steele's Bayou Expedition, in the spring of 1863 he prepared to cross his troops from the west bank of the Mississippi River to a point south of Vicksburg and drive against the city from the south and east
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The Battle of Gettysburg
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The Battle of Gettysburg 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[7], it is often described as the war's turning point
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Copperheads
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The Copperheads were 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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The New York Draft Riots 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 Appomattox Courthouse is a courthouse in Appomattox, Virginia built in 1892. It is located in the middle of the state about three miles (5 km) northwest of the Appomattox Court House National Historical Park
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Trent Affair
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The Trent Affair 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
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