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36 Cards in this Set
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Free Soil Party
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What- A political party that would act as a third party in two run of elections its leaders had consisted of anti slavery members of the whig and democratic party.
When- During 1848-1852 Significance- was to oppose the expansion of slavery in western territories. |
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Fugitive Slave Law-
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Harriet Tubman
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Ostend Manifesto
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Kansas Nebraska Act
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Wilmot+Proviso
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William Lloyd Garrison
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Frederick Douglas
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Popular Sovereignty
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Underground railroad
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Compromise of 1850
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Dred Scott Decision
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Panic of 1857
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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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What- A siege between the Union and the confederate army Ulysses S. Grant was low on resources and decided to push on into vicksburg and besiege it.
When 1863 Significance- Another significant turning point for the Union army, after the Confederate forces in vicksburg surrendered the Union had full access of the Mississippi river. |
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Battle of Gettysburg
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What- A significant turning point in the war between the confederates and the Union. A Union victory won by the army of the Potomac.
When 1863 Significance- It was the largest number of casualties caused in the civil war. Stoped Robert E. Lee's invasion into the north |
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Copperheads
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Who- Group of Democrats in Northern U.S., they opposed the war, they wanted peace with the confederates.
When-1864 Significance- They damaged the Union war effort by encouraging people not going to war and rejecting to go to the draft. |
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New York Draft riots 1863
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What- Based on angry white working class men in involving a draft when they are fighting a war for African Americans.
When-1863- during the civil war Significance- A outbreak of civilians angry at the reason for the war and the wealthier class being able to buy themselves out of war. |
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Appomattox
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What- was the confederates last fight before it had surrendered to the Union army.
When- In 1865 Last battle of the war. Significance- it was Robert E. Lee's final stand in the war. Ending the war |
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Trent Affair
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What- it was a affair between british and american government during the civil war. A Union ship intercepted a British mail ship
When- During 1861 Significance- It was a potential war between the Union and Britain during the civil war. The war was dodged between both countries |
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Uncle Tom's 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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IronClads
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Battle of Antietam
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Emancipation Proclamation
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54th Regiment
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