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32 Cards in this Set
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Peculiar institution
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-a euphemistic term in place of slavery
-implied that the south slavery was different than the harsh slavery in other places -used when william lloyd garrison began to attack slavery |
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Missouri Compromise
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-admitted Missouri as a slave state
-Maine admitted as free -all future bondage was prohibited North of the line 36'30 |
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Tariff of Abominations
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-Tariff of 1828
-wanted to protect industry in the North from competing with European goods -Southerners forced to buy goods from american market which was heavily protected by tariffs -inspired John C Calhouns attempt of nullification |
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The Liberator
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-an abolitionist newspaper founded by William Lloyd Garrison
-Garrison used it to send out messages against slavery -in a sense fired one of the opening barrages of the Civil War |
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Gag Resolution
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-required all antislavery appeals to be tabled without debate, preventing them from being discussed
-occured in the house of representatives -southerners drove it |
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Webster-Ashburton Treaty
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-settled the dispute over the location of the border between Maine and New Brunswick
-named after the signees of the treaty -also called for a final end to the slave trade on the high seas -agreed on terms for use of great lakes |
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
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-between US and Mexico
-ended the mexian-american war and provided for mexian cession -mexico agreed to give 1.36 million km2 to US in exchange for 15 million -US agreed to take on 3.25 million in debt from Mexico |
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Wilmot Proviso
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-introduced in house of representatives for final negotiations to resolve the mexican-american war
-intent was to prevent the introduction of slavery in any territory aquired by mexico -did not pass |
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Popular soveriegnty
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-belief that the state is subject to the will of the people in which citizens decide on the issue of slavery
-Stephen A Douglas was a supporter |
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Free Soil Party
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-broke off of democratic party
-opposed expansion of slavery into western territories -wanted to keep the western lands free of blacks and slaves |
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Compromise of 1850
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-california admitted as free state
-texas recieved compensation for giving up lands to new mexico -new mexico territory organized -slave trade abolished in washington DC -fugitive slave laws passed, required all citizens to return runaways -endorsed popular sovereignty |
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Fugitive Slave Act
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-passed in 1850
-provided for the return of slaves who escaped regardless of legality of slavery in that state -part of the compromise of 1850 |
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Clayton-Bulwer Treaty
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-between US and Great Britain
-over the issue of the interoceanic canal across nicaragua -bound both parties not to obtain or maintain any control over the canal or unequal advantage in its use -guranteed neutralization of the canal -declared that the parties agreed to extend their protection to any other principle communications across the isthmus connect N and S America -said neither party would occupy, fortify, or colonize, nor assume domination or make us of any protectorate over nicaragua, costa rica, or central america |
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Ostend Manifesto
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-secret document written in 1854 in belgium
-described a plan to acquire cuba from spain -sent 3 diplomats to get cuba but if spain refused us would use force -document leaked out and n outraged about trying to extend slavery |
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
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-1854, created territories of kansas and nebraska
-act designed by Stephen A Douglas and involved popular sovereighnty -repealed missouri compromise because both north of line 36'30 |
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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-by Harriet Beecher Stowe
-anti-slavery novel that focused on cruelty of slavery -fueled abolitionism in 1850 |
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New England Emigrant Aid Company
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-aka Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Company
-transportation company set up to take emigrants to kansas to shift the balance so that freestaters would have the majority for voting |
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Bleeding Kansas
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-sequence of events involving free staters vs border ruffians
-took place in kansas and missouri trying to influence kansas as entering free or slave state -border ruffians crossed kansas border only to sway the vote pro slavery |
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lecompton constitution
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-enshrined slavery in the state and protected the rights of the slave holders
-provided a referendum that allowed voters the choice of allowing more slaves into kansas -president buchanan endorsed it but congress rejected it |
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Dred-scott decision
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-supreme court ruled that africans (slaves or not) could never be citizens of the US and congress has no authority to prohibit slavery in federal territories
-dred scott was a slave in illinois which was free. wanted to buy freedom but couldnt so sued because he lived in a free state. |
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Freeport Doctrine
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-articulated by Stephan A Douglas in freeport illinios
-lincoln tried to force douglas to choose between popular sovereignty and supreme court case dred scott -douglas attempted to find a compromise between both saying it was up to the people living in the territory to refused to pass laws favorable to slavery |
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Harpers Ferry Raid
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-john brown (abolitionist) and followers seized united states arsenal at harpers ferry, virginia
-used pseudonym Isaac Smith -brown expect local slaves to revolt but they didnt -Robert E Lee was ordered to capture brown -brown hanged for treason |
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Nat Turner
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-american slave who led a slave rebellion in southampton county, virginia
-most remarkable instance of black resistance to slavery -killed white civilians during uprising including women and children -did not use firearms -sentenced to death, hanged then beheaded and quartered |
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Gadsen Purchase
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-region what is now southern arizona and new mexico
-purchased by US from Mexico in 1853 -signed by president pierce in 1854 -supposed to be more land but mexicans angry and abolitionists did not want so much new slave land |
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Election of 1860
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-between lincoln, john breckinridge, john bell, and stephen douglas
-abraham Lincoln won without a single southern state support -political system split 4 ways -followed by secession of southern states |
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Hinton R Helper
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-wrote Impending Crisis of the South about how nonslaveholding whites suffered most from slavery
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William Lloyd Garrison
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-published the Liberator
-radical abolitionist -publically burned a copy of the constitution |
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Sojourner Truth
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-freed black woman
-fought for black emancipation and women's rights |
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Frederick Douglas
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-lectured widely for abolitionism
-looked to politics to end slavery |
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John Slidell
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-sent to Mexico City in 1845 by Polk to buy California for $25 million (the offer was rejected)
-his rejection by Santa Anna was reason for mexican-american war |
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Immortal Trio
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-Henry Clay
-John C Calhoun -Daniel Webster |
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Know Nothing Party
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-aka The American Party
-formed by Protestants who were alarmed by the increase of immigrants from Ireland and Germany. |
