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36 Cards in this Set
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Free Soil Party
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What:a short-lived political party in the United States active in the presidential elections, and in some state elections.
when: 1848 and 1852 Significance:opposed the expansion of slavery into the western territories and won several states |
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Fugitive slave law
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What: laws passed by the United States Congress. provided for the return of slaves who escaped from one state into another state or territory
When: 1793 and 1850 Significance:This sets of laws made catching fugitive slaves easier for most of the states to catch them and resulted in catching many of them |
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Harriet Tubman
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Who: an African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy
When: During the American Civil War Significance: She rescued many slaves and took them to save places |
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Ostend Manifesto
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What: a document that described the rationale for the United States to purchase Cuba from Spain and implied the U.S. should declare war if Spain refused
When: 1854 Significance |
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Kansas Nebraska Act
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What:an act that created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opened new lands, repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820, and allowed settlers in those territories to determine if they would allow slavery within their boundaries.
when:1854 Significance: It helped crate opportunities for people |
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Wilmot Proviso
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What: one of the major events leading to the Civil War,
When Significance:, would have banned slavery in any territory to be acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War or in the future, including the area later known as the Mexican Cession |
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William Lloyd Garrison
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Who:a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer. He is best known as the editor of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator, and as one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society, he promoted "immediate emancipation" of slaves in the United States.
When:1829-? Significance: It helped the women with their momevent and promoted Anti-Slavery |
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Frederick Douglass
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Who:an American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman.
When: Significance: he became a leader of the abolitionist movement. He stood as a living counter-example to slaveholders' arguments that slaves did not have the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens. He became a major speaker for the cause of abolition. |
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Popular Sovereignty
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What: the belief that the legitimacy of the state is created by the will or consent of its people
when Significance:It helped create many new states some were good and some werent |
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underground railroad
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What:an informal network of secret routes and safe houses used by black slaves in the United States to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists who were sympathetic to their cause
when:19th-century Significance: Many Black slaves were saved thanks to this railroad system |
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Compromise of 1850
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What:an intricate package of five bills defusing a four-year confrontation between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North
When:September 1850 Significance: This Compromise ended the war in the U.S. |
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Dred Scott Decision
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What:a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that people of African descent imported into the United States and held as slaves were not protected by the Constitution and could never be U.S. citizens.
When:1857 Significance: this demonstrated how slavery was treated and how much segregation there was |
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Panic of 1857
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What:a financial panic in the United States caused by the declining international economy and overexpansion of the domestic economy.the financial downturn did not last long, however a proper recovery was not seen until the American Civil War
When: September of 1857 Significance: This affected all the U.S. because they coulnt loan anymore to other countries and coulnt buy any other goods |
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Uncle Toms Cabin
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What: an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe.
When:1852 Significance:helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War |
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Bleeding Kansas
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What:a series of violent events that took place in the Kansas Territory and the western frontier towns of the U.S. state of Missouri
When:between 1854 and 1858 Significance:it determined whether Kansas would enter the Union as a free state or slave state. |
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Crittenden Compromise
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What:an unsuccessful proposal by Kentucky Senator John J. Crittenden to resolve the U.S. secession crisis of 1860–1861 When: December 18, 1860
Significance:it addressed the concerns that led the states in the Deep South of the United States to contemplate secession from the United States. |
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Fort Sumter
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What: a Third System masonry coastal fortification located in Charleston. When:
Significance:harbor shots initiating the American Civil War were fired, at the Battle of Fort Sumter. |
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Jefferson Davis
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Who: an American statesman and leader of the Confederacy during the American Civil War
When: Significance: He failed to get recognition for his country |
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Anaconda Plan
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What:an outline strategy for subduing the seceding states in the American Civil War
When: Significance: This was the strategy that the north planed to use |
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Robert E. Lee
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Who:a career United States Army officer and combat engineer
When: 1861 Significance: he got many visctories for the armies he lead. was recognized for his talent of being a tactitian |
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Ulysses S. Grant
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Who:the 18th President of the United States as well as military commander during the Civil War
When:1869–1877 Significance:his army defeated the confederate army and ended the Confederate States of America |
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Iron Clad
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What: a steam-propelled warship
When: second half of the 19th century Significance: |
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Battle of antitam
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What:the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Northern soil
When:September 17, 1862 Significance:after this event president Abraham Lincoln announces his emancipation proclamation |
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Emancipation Proclamation
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What:an executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln
When: During the American civil war Significance: discouraged the British and French governments from potential plans for recognition of the Confederacy. |
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54th Regimen
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What:an infantry regiment that saw extensive service in the Union Army .
When:during the American Civil War Significance: One of the first official black units in the United States |
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Morril Tarrif 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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What: two United States federal laws that established a system of national charters for banks
When:1863 Significance:They encouraged development of a national currency based on bank holdings of U.S. Treasury securities, |
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Battle of Vicksburg
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What:the final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War
When: The american Civil War Significance: The confederate surrendered following by the siege at Vicksburg |
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Battle of Gettysburg
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What: A battle in Gettysburg
When: July 1-3,1863 Significance: the turning point of the war |
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Copperheads
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Who: a vocal group of Democrats in the Northern United States who opposed the American Civil War
When:?-1864 Significance: They are against war |
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New York Draft Riots 1863
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What: violent disturbances in New York City
When:july 13-16 1863 Significance: 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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Appomattox
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What: A battle in virginia
When:April 9 1865 Significance: The union won |
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trent affair
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What:an international diplomatic incident that occurred during the American Civil War.
When: On November 8, 1861 Significance: |
