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Triangle Trade |
The best-known triangular trading system is the transatlantic slave trade, that operated from the late 16th to early 19th centuries, carrying slaves, cash crops, and manufactured goods between West Africa, Caribbean or American colonies and the European colonial powers. |
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3/5 compromise |
The population of slaves would be counted as three-fifths in total when apportioning Representatives, as well as Presidential electors and taxes. |
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Bleeding Kansas |
Bleeding Kansas, Bloody Kansas or the Border War was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery "Free-Staters" and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian", or "southern" elements in Kansas between 1854 and 1861, including "Bleeding Congress |
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Fugitive slave law |
The Fugitive Slave Law or Fugitive Slave Act was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers. |
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Secession |
The action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body, especially a political state./The withdrawal of eleven southern states from the Union in 1860, leading to the Civil War. |
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Emancipation proclamation |
Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation on September 22nd, 1862. It stipulated that if the Southern states did not cease their rebellion by January 1st, 1863, then Proclamation would go into effect. |
Aberham Lincoln wanting to free slaves. |
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Cash Crops |
a crop produced for its commercial value rather than for use by the grower. |
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Missouri Compromise |
In an effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states, the Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. ... In 1854, the Missouri Compromise was repealed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act. |
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Underground Railroad |
The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early-to-mid 19th century, and used by African American slaves to escape into free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause. |
Harriet Tubman |
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Dred Scott Case |
A controversial ruling made by the Supreme Court in 1857, shortly before the outbreak of the Civil War. Dred Scott, a slave, sought to be declared a free man on the basis that he had lived for a time in a “free” territory with his master. |
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Popular Sovereignty |
Popular sovereignty or the sovereignty of the people's rule, is the principle that the authority of a state and its government is created and sustained by the consent of its people, through their elected representatives (Rule by the People), who are the source of all political power. |
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Gettysburg Address |
The Gettysburg Address is a speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln at the November 19, 1863, dedication of Soldier's National Cemetery, a cemetery for Union soldiers killed at the Battle Of Gettysburg during the American Civil War |
Battle at Gettysburg |
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Cotton Gin |
A machine for separating cotton from its seeds. |
The Confederate used it. |
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Compromise of 1850 |
The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican–American War (1846–1848). |
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Kansas-Nebraska Act |
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30´ |
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Abolitionist |
a person who favors the abolition of a practice or institution, especially capital punishment or (formerly) slavery. |
End slavery. |
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Border States |
States that were part of the U.S. but allowed slavery. |
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Daniel Webster |
Daniel Webster was a nineteenth-century lawyer, representative, senator, Secretary of State, and one of the great orators in U.S. history. A man of prodigious talent and great political ambition, Webster reversed himself on issues involving the economy and Slavery in hopes of becoming president. |
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Harriet Tubman |
Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Ross; c. 1822 – March 10, 1913) was an American abolitionist, humanitarian, and an armed scout and spy for the United States Army during the American Civil War. ... Traveling by night and in extreme secrecy, Tubman (or "Moses", as she was called) "never lost a passenger". |
Underground Railroad. |
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Ulysses S.Grant |
Ulysses S Grant. BrE. Ulysses Simpson Grant (1822-85) the general who commanded the US Army during the Civil War and later became the 18th President of the US (1869-77). His greatest Civil War victory was at Vicksburg, Mississippi, and he accepted the surrender of Robert E Lee at Appomattox Court House. |
A Union General |
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Abraham Lincoln |
The 16th President of the United States; saved the Union during the American Civil War and emancipated the slaves; was assassinated by Booth (1809-1865) Synonyms: Lincoln, President Abraham Lincoln, President Lincoln Example of: attorney, lawyer. |
A U.S. President |
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Steven Douglas |
Stephen Arnold Douglas (April 23, 1813 – June 3, 1861) was an American politician from Illinois and the designer of the Kansas–Nebraska Act. He was a U.S. representative, a U.S. senator, and the Democratic Party nominee for president in the 1860 election, losing to Republican Abraham Lincoln. |
Ran against Abraham Lincoln in the election. |
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Frederick Douglass |
Frederick Douglass (1818-95) was a prominent American abolitionist, author and orator. Born a slave, Douglass escaped at age 20 and went on to become a world-renowned anti-slavery activist. |
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"Stonewall" Jackson |
Jackson, “Stonewall” definition. Thomas J. Jackson, a general in the Confederate army during the Civil War. He got his nickname at the First Battle of Bull Run, where he and his men “stood like a stone wall.” He and General Robert E. Lee led the South to victory at the Battle of Chancellorsville. |
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Jefferson Davis |
Jefferson Davis (1808-1889) was a Mexican War hero, U.S. senator from Mississippi, U.S. secretary of war and president of the Confederate States of America for the duration of the American Civil War (1861-1865). |
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Harriet Beecher Stowe |
Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe (/stoʊ/; June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896) was an American abolitionist and author. She came from the Beecher family, a famous religious family, and is best known for her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852). It depicts the harsh life for African Americans under slavery. |
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John Brown |
John Brown (May 9, 1800 – December 2, 1859) was an American abolitionist who believed armed insurrection was the only way to overthrow the institution of slavery in the United States. |
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William T. Sherman |
William Tecumseh Sherman (/tᵻˈkʌmsə/; February 8, 1820 – February 14, 1891) was an American soldier, businessman, educator and author. ... In 1864, Sherman succeeded Grant as the Union commander in the Western Theater of the war. |
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Robert E.Lee |
A general of the nineteenth century; the commander of Confederate troops during the Civil War. Before the war, he led the marines who put down the insurrection by John Brown at Harpers Ferry and took Brown captive. |
Commander of the Confederate army. |
