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Free Soil Party
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a former U.S. political party (1848–56) that opposed the extension of slavery in the Territories not yet admitted to statehood.
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Missouri Compromise 1820
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an act of Congress (1820) by which Missouri was admitted as a slave state, Maine as a free state, and slavery was prohibited in the Louisiana Purchase north of latitude 36°30′N, except for Missouri.
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Compramise 1850
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The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five bills, passed in September 1850, which defused a four-year confrontation between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War
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Kansas Nebraska act 1854
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The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 (10 Stat. 277) created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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an antislavery novel (1852) by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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Fuigitive slave act
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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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Dred Scott vs Sanford
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Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 393 (1857), also known as the Dred Scott Decision, was a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that people of African descent brought into the United States and held as slaves (or their descendants)
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Harpers Ferry
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Harpers Ferry is a historic town in Jefferson County, West Virginia, United States. It was formerly Harper's Ferry with an apostrophe and that form continues to appear in some references.[3] It is situated at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers where the U.S. states of Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia meet.
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Fort Sumter
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Fort Sumter is a Third System masonry coastal fortification located in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. The fort is best known as the site upon which the shots initiating the American Civil War were fired, at the Battle of Fort Sumter.
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Border states
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a slave state that bordered states in which slavery was illegal
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King Cotton
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Cotton was called king cotton because cotton was important to the world market and the south sold most of the cotton for europes mills
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Blockade
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When armed forces prevent a transportation of goods or people into or out of an area
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Anaconda plan
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a strategy by which the union proposed to defeat a confedaracy in the civil war.
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minie ball
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a bullet with a hollow base
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secede
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to withdraw
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Confederate states of America
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The confed1 eration formed in 1861 by the southern states after their succsecison from the union
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calvary
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soldiers on horseback
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