Chapter 14 Izzy

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Free Soil Party

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oppssed slavery in states that havent been established. it also helped other foriegn countries in thier oil

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Fugitive Slave Law

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It made northerners capture run away slaves and give them back to their owners in the south so that they can punish them for running away

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Harriet Tubman

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A women that helped other slaves escape through the underground railroad.

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Ostend Manifesto

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a secret document that was to try and get cuba to be a slave state.

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Kansas Nebraska Act

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it made the citizens of nebraska and kansas decide if they want to become slave states.

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Wilmot Proviso

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ban slavery in territories won in the war with Mexico

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William Lloyd Garrison

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Known as the liberator, he was agianst slavery. he was well known for that and fought for the for more than 2 decades

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Frederick douglas

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a former slave who became free and was well known as a for anti slavery

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Popular sovereignty

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a government where the people believe what ever they say the government should follow.

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Underground Railroad

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a secret passage way where blacks escape to the north.

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Compromise of 1850

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it required northern citizens to capture run away slaves and to force them to give them back or they would have to go to jail.

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Dred scott decision

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Whether blacks are free or slave they shouldnt be u.s. citizens

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Panic of 1857

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it was a sudden turn in the economy that put the u.s. in their first depression and it also affected most of the world cause we trade with most big countries.

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Uncle Toms Cabin

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it was a anti slavery book

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Bleeding Kansas

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it was a war between pro and anti slavery citizens in the state of kansas

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Crittenden Compromise

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it set the border of 36 30 line where slaves could be kept being a slave

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Fort Sumner

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this is where the shots that ignited the american civil war and it was a fort that is now being held as a big tourist attraction

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Jefferson Davis

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a Officer that led the confederate army

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Anaconda Plan

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name widely applied to an outline strategy for subduing the seceding states in the American Civil War. Proposed by General-in-Chief Winfield Scot. emphasized the blockade of the Southern ports

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Robert E. Lee

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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 the South's "lost cause".

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Ulysses S. Grant

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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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steam-propelled warship in the early part of the second half of the 19th century, protected by iron or steel armor plates.
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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also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg.
fought on September 17, 1862.
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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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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resulted in 180,000 black men enlisting in support of the Union. Though one percent of the nation was black, ten percent of the union's forces would be.

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Morril 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.

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Homestead Act 1862

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gave an applicant freehold title to up to 160 acres of undeveloped federal land west of the Mississippi River.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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was enacted to issue paper money to finance the Civil War without raising taxes

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Pacific Railway Act 1862

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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.

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National Bank Act 1863

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established a system of national charters for banks, the United States national banks

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Battle of Vicksburg

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final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War. In a series of maneuvers, Union Maj. Gen.

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Battle of Gettysburg

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battle with the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War, it is often described as the war's turning point.

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Copperheads

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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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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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Apporrattox

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Confederate States Army General Robert Army of Northern Virginia before it surrendered to the Union Army under Ulysses Grant, and one of the last battles of the American Civil War.

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Trent Affair

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also known as the Mason and Slidell Affair, was an international diplomatic incident that occurred during the American Civil War.