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panic of 1857
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a financial panic in the United States caused by the declining international economy
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compromise of 1850
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five bills, passed in September 1850, defusing a confrontation between the slave states and the free states .
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underground railroad
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network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century black slaves in the United States to escape to free states
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popular sovereignty
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is the belief that the legitimacy of the state is created by the will or consent of its people
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frederick Douglas
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was an American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman. After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement
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William Lloyd Garrison
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was a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer
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wilmot proviso
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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
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kansas nebraska act
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created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opened new lands, repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820
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uncle tom's cabin
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is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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bleeding kansas
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was a series of violent events, involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian"
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crittenden compromise
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was an unsuccessful proposal by Senator John J. Crittenden to resolve the U.S. secession crisis of 1860–1861
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fort sumter
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is a Third System masonry coastal fortification located in Charleston harbor,
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jefferson Davis
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was an American statesman and leader of the Confederacy during the American Civil War
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anaconda plan
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is the name widely applied to an outline strategy for subduing the seceding states in the American Civil War
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morril tarrif act 1861
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the law that raise rates protect and encourge industry. and to increase wages of industrial workers.
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humstead act 1862
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160 given under developed federal land which included free slaves who were 21 years old or older. required to live on land 5 years.
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legal tender act 1862
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enacted to issue paper money to finance the civil war without raising taxes.
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pacific railway act 1863
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the construction of transcontinental railroad government bonds and grands of lands to the railroads owners
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national bank act 1863
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established national charters of the bank and encouraged the development of national currency.
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battle of vicksburg
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The Siege of Vicksburg was the final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign
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battle of gettysburg
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was fought July 1–3, 1863, and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The battle with the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War
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new york draft riots 1863
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were violent disturbances in New York City that were the culmination of discontent with new laws passed by Congress
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emancipation proclamation
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emancapation of al states and fedrate states and did not cover slaves in border states whic remained in the union
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free soil party
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was a short-lived political party in the United States active in the 1848 and 1852
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fugitive slave law
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were laws passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and 1850 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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was an African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the American Civil War
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ostend manifest
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a document written in 1854 that described the rationale for the United States to purchase Cuba from Spain
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robert lee
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was a career United States Army officer and combat engineer. He became the commanding general of the Confederate army in the American Civil War
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ulysses Grants
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military commander during the Civil War and post-war Reconstruction periods.
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iron clads
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s a land marked building in Cooperstown, New York.[1] It was built in 1862 by James Bogardu
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battle of antebellum
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the 54th was organised in March 1863, since it was an all black regiment except for it Leaders,
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