Chapter 14 Vocab

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Free Soil Party

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short lived political party (1848 & 1852 US elections)
it grew its greatest strength from New york
consisted of former anti-slavery members of the Whig Party and the Democratic Pary.
its main purpose was to oppose the expansion of slavery tothe western territories.

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fugitive Slave Law

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law passed by the US congress in 1850
part of the Compromise of 1850 between the Northern Free Soilers and the Southern slave holders.
declared that all runaway slaves must go back to their masters.

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Harriet Tubman

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African-American Abolitionist, humanitarian and Union Spy during the Civil WAr. she made 13 missions to rescue more than 70 slaves after she escaped.
she was a part of the Underground Railrod.

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Ostend Manifesto

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a document written in 1854 that described the rationale for the US to purchase Cuba from SPain and implied that the US should declare war if Spain refused.

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Kansas/Nebraska Act

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Created 2 new territories
Allowed for popular sovereignty
States decide whether it is a free or slave state
Border Ruffians:
Pro slavery proponents
Caused a revolt : “Bleeding Kansas”

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Wilmot Proviso

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one of the major events leading up to the Civil War
would have banned slavery in any territory acquired from the mexican war.

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William Lloyd Garrison

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founder of "The Liberator:
radical abolitionist, journalist and social reformer

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Frederick Douglas

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American Social Reformer, orator, writer and statesman
he became the leader of the abolitionist movement

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Popular Sovereignity

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the vote of the people that lived in a state

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Underground Railroad

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abolitionist movement
would free many slaves

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Compromise of 1850

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5 bills,
the compromise avoided secession or civil war and quieted sectional conflict for 4 years.

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Dred Scott Decision

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ruling by the US Supreme court that people of Africa descent imported into the US and held as slaves were not protected by th Constitution and could not be acknowledged as US citizends

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Panic of 1857

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a financial panic in the US caused by th declining international economy

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Uncle Tom's Cabin

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an anti slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
the novel "helped lay the groundwork for the CIvil War.

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Bleeding Kansas

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a series of violent events anti-slavery Free-soilers and pro-slavery "Border Ruffians"

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crittenden compromise

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an unsucessful proposal to resolve the US secession of 1860-61 by adressing the concerns that led the states in the South to contemplate secession from the US

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fort Sumter

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a bombardment and surrender of Fort Sumter, that started the American War.

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Jefferson Davis

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leader of the Confederacy of during the Civil War

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Anaconda plan

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an outline strategy for subduing the seceding states in the American CIvil War.

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Robert E. Lee

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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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military commander during the Civil War and post war reconstruction

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Iron Clads

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steam propelled waship 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 Antiam

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Bloodiest Single Day of the War”
- happens after the 2nd battle of Manassas
- led by McClellan
- he waited for Lee to attack, but Lee pulled back and regained strength
- he got fired because of his conservativeness

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Emancipation Proclamation

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- Directed towards slaves in the Confederacy.
- Slave holding states allowed in the Union
- The states that had seceded could not own slaves

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54th regiment

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All African American soldiers
served the Union

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morril tariff act 1861

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rockettacoes

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homestead act 1862

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rockettacoes

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legal tender act 1862

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rockettacoes

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pacific railway act 1862

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rockettacoes

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national/ bank act

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rockettacoes

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battle of vicksburg

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final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War.

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battle of gettysburg

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rockettacoes

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copperheads

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rockettacoes

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new york draft riots 1863

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rockettacoes

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appomattox

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rockettacoes

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Trent Affair

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rockettacoes