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Free Soul Party

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Political party that opposed the expansion of slavery in the western territories, and even worked in favor for freed African Americans in states such as Ohio.

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Fugitive Slave Law

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It was an act that provided for the return of escaped slaves from other states

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Harriet Tubman

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African American Abolitionist, who during her enslave life got hit in the head by a heavy metal in the head and started having weird vissions. humanitarian and Union Spy. She liberated more than 70 slaves

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Ostend Manifesto

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Document written in 1854 that said why the US should have Cuba instead of spain

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Annaconda Plan

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Strategy designed by Winfield Scott to

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Robert E. Lee

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Career United States officer and Combat Engineer. He became the commanding general of the confederate Army

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Ulysses S. Grant

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18th president of the US and military commander during the civil war and post war reconstruction periods, he was also against the us acquiring mexican territory

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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.[1] The ironclad was 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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First major battle in the civil War with about 23000 casualties

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Emanicipation Proclamation

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Emancipation of all states in confederate states, did not cover slaves in border states which remained in the union.

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54th Regiment

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A regiment of African Americans led by Colonel Robert Shaw.

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Morril Tariff Act 1861

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A law that raised rates to protect and encourage industry. Increase wages of industrial workers.

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Humestead act 1862

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To give a 160 acres of underdeveloped federal land which included free slaves of 21 years older and were required to live on the land for 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 1862

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Promoted the construction of the transcontinental railroad, with government bonds and grants of land to railroad companies.

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National Bank Act 1863

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Established national charters for banks and encouraged the development of a national currency.

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Battle of Vicksburg

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

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Battle of Gettysburg

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Ulysses S. Grant and his Army of the Tennessee crossed the Mississippi River and drove the Confederate army of Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton into the defensive lines surrounding the fortress city of Vicksburg, Mississippi.

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Copperheads

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vocal group of Democrats in the Northern United States (see also Union (American Civil War)) who opposed the American Civil War, wanting an immediate peace settlement with the Confederates. Republicans started calling anti-war Democrats "Copperheads," likening them to the poisonous snake. The Peace Democrats accepted the label, but for them the copper "head" was the likeness of Liberty, which they cut from copper pennies and proudly wore as badges

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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. The riots were the largest civil insurrection in American history apart from the Civil War itself

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APPamattax

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Final engagement of Confederate States Army General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia before it surrendered to the Union Army under Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, and one of the last battles of the American Civil War

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Kanssas 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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Willmot 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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William Lloyd Garrison

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was a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer

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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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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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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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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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Dred Sott Decision

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Overall, the Dred Scott decision had the effect of widening the political and social gap between North and South and took the nation closer to the brink of Civil War.

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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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Uncle Tomis Cabin

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a Kentucky farmer named Arthur Shelby facing the loss of his farm because of debts. Even though he and his wife, Emily Shelby, believe that they have a benevolent relationship with their slaves, Shelby decides to raise the needed funds by selling two of them—Uncle Tom, a middle-aged man with a wife and children, and Harry, the son of Emily Shelby’s maid Eliza—to a slave trader. Emily Shelby hates the idea of doing this because she had promised her maid that her child would never be sold; Emily's son, George Shelby, hates to see Tom go because he sees the man as his friend and mentor.

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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