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Free Soil Party
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political party that opposed slavery, especially in new territories
mid- 19th century they affected political elections |
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Fugitive Slave Laws
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laws that were passed to help return runaway slaves
passed in 1793 & 1850 prevented many slaves from being free |
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Harriet Tubman
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African American abolitionist, humanitarian, & union
1820- 1913 helped hundreds of slaves to runaway & escape through a network called the underground railroad |
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Ostend Manifesto
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a document that implied that it made sense that if the united states didn't purchase cuba from spain they would be inclined to declare war
1854 |
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Kansas Nebraska Act
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created kansas & nebraska
1854 opened new lands & repealed the missouri compromise of 1820 |
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Wilmot Proviso
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would have banned slavery in any territory to be acquired from new mexico
1846 one of the events leasing to the civil war |
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William Lloyd Garrison
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American abolitionist, journalist & social reformer
1805- 1879 editor of the abolitionist newspaper "the Liberator" one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society |
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Frederick Douglas
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american social reformer, orator, writer & statesman
1818- 1895 a leader of the abolitionist movement |
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Popular Sovereignty
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belief that all legitimacy of the state come from the power of its people
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Underground Railroad
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a vast network of people who helped slaves escape to the north & canada
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Compromise of 1850
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intricate package of 5 bills
1850 was able to quiet the tension between slave states & free states for four years |
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Dred Scott Decision
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a ruling by US supreme court that any person imported into the US of African descent would be made a slave
1857 |
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Panic of 1857
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a financial panic caused by a declining international economy & overexpansion of the domestic economy
1857 |
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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an anti-slavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe
1852 helped lay the groundwork for the civil war |
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Bleeding Kansas
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a series of conflicts between Anti-slavery free staters & pro-slavery supporters
1854- 1858 |
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Crittenden Compromise
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unsuccessful proposal by Kentucky senator John J. Crittenden
1860 led the southern states to secession from US |
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Forst Sumter
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the bombardment & surrender of Fort Sumter
1861 started the civil war |
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Jefferson Davis
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American statesman & leader of the confederacy in the civil war
1808- 1889 stayed the president of the confederate states for the entire period of the war |
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Anaconda Plan
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an outline of strategy for subduing the seceding states
civil war |
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Robert E. Lee
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United States army officer & combat engineer
1807- 1870 Commanding general of the confederate army in the civil war |
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Ulysses S. Grant
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18th President of the US
1822- 1885 military commander for the union during the civil war |
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Iron Clads
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stem- propelled warships protected by iron or steel armor
successful in the civil war |
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Battle of Antietam
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First major battle of the civil war
1862 bloodiest single day in american history |
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Emancipation Proclamation
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executive order given by President Lincoln during the civil war
proclaimed the freedom of a quarter of the nation's slaves |
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54th Regiment
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infantry regiment that whose services were used extensively in the Civil war
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Morril Tariff Act (1861)
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protected tariff to encourage industry & highway of industrial powrs
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Homestead Act (1862)
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gave 50 acres of undeveloped federal land for a minimum of 5 years of they promised to develop it
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Legal Tender Act (1862)
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created to issue paper money to finance civil war without raising taxes
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Pacific Railway Act (1862)
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promoted construction of transcontinenal road
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National Bank Act (1863)
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established a national currency
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Battle of Vicksburg
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final big military action in the civil war by the Vicksburg Campain
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