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25 Cards in this Set
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1. Free Soil Party
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Formed in 1847 - 1848, dedicated to opposing slavery in newly acquired territories such as Oregon and ceded Mexican territory
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2. Fugitive Slave Law
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Provided for the return of escaped slaves to their owners
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3. Harriet Tubman
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A former escaped slave, she was one of the shrewdest conductors of the underground railroad, leading 300 slaves to freedom
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4. Ostend Manifesto
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The recommendation that the U.S. offer Spain $20 million for Cuba; it was not carried through in part because the North feared Cuba would become another slave state.
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5. Kansas Nebraska Act
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This act repealed the Missouri Compromise and established a doctrine of congressional nonintervention in the territories. Popular sovereignty (vote of the people) would determine whether Kansas and Nebraska would be slave or free states
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6. Republican Party
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A coalition of the Free Soil Party, the Know-Nothing Party and renegade Whigs merged in 1854 to form this liberal, anti-slavery pro – business party
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7. Wilmot Proviso
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This banned slavery acquired from the Mexican Cession
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8. “King Cotton”
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Expression used by Southern authors and orators before the Civil War to indicate the economic dominance of the Southern cotton industry
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9. William Lloyd Garrison
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A militant abolitionist, he became editor of the Boston publication, The Liberator, in 1831
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10. Frederick Douglas
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A self-educated slave who escaped in 1838, Douglas became the best-known abolitionist speaker. He edited an anti-slavery weekly, the North Star.
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11. Popular Sovereignty
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The doctrine that stated that the people of a territory had the right to decide their own laws by voting
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12. Underground Railroad
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. A secret, shifting network which aided slaves escaping to the North and Canada, mainly after 1840
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13. Compromise of 1850
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Called for the admission of California as a free state, organizing Utah and New Mexico with out restrictions on slavery, adjustment of the Texas/New Mexico border, abolition of slave trade in District of Columbia, and tougher fugitive slave laws
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14. Dred Scott Decision
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. A Missouri slave sued for his freedom, claiming that his four year stay in the northern portion of the Louisiana Territory made free land by the Missouri Compromise had made him a free man. The U.S, Supreme Court decided he couldn't sue in federal court because he was property, not a citizen.
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15. Panic of 1857
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. Began with the failure of the Ohio Life Insurance Company and spread to the urban east. The depression affected the industrial east and the wheat belt more than the South
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16. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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It helped to crystallize the rift between the North and South. It has been called the greatest American propaganda novel ever written, and helped to bring about the Civil War
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17. Bleeding Kansas
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Following the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, pro-slavery forces from Missouri, known as the Border Ruffians, crossed the border into Kansas and terrorized and murdered antislavery settlers. Antislavery sympathizers from Kansas carried out reprisal attacks, the most notorious of which was John Brown's 1856 attack on the settlement at Pottawatomie Creek
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18. Crittenden Compromise
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The bill offered a Constitutional amendment recognizing slavery in the territories south of the 36º30' line, noninterference by Congress with existing slavery, and compensation to the owners of fugitive slaves.
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19. Border States
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States bordering the North: Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri. They were slave states, but did not secede
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20. Fort Sumter
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Site of the opening engagement of the Civil War On December 20, 1860, South Carolina had seceded from the Union, and had demanded that all federal property in the state be surrendered to state authorities.
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21. Freedmen’s Bureau
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Agency set up to aid former slaves in adjusting themselves to freedom. It furnished food and clothing to needy blacks and helped them get jobs.
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22. Lincoln’s 10% Plan
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Former Confederate states would be readmitted to the Union if 10% of their citizens took a loyalty oath and the state agreed to ratify the 13th Amendment which outlawed slavery
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23. Black Codes
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Restrictions on the freedom of former slaves, passed by Southern governments
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24. Ku Klux Klan
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White-supremacist group formed by six former Confederate officers after the Civil War
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25. “Seward’s Folly”
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An eager expansionist, he was the energetic supporter of the Alaskan purchase and negotiator of the deal
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