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free soil party
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it was a short lived political in teh united states active in the 1848 and 1852 the presidential election and some state election but it was the third that largely appealed in the greatest strenght from new york.
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fugitive party
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harriet tubman
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it was an african american that abolitionist , humanitorian, and union spy during the civil war and afeter escaping from the slavery in which she was bor. she also liberate alor of african american from the slavery.
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ostenend manifest
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it was adocument written in 1854 that described the rationale fro the united states to purchase cuba from spain and implied the u.s should declare the war if the spain refused. rthe anexxion cuba was the had long begin on the usa expansion and particullay as teh united states sights.
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kansas nebraska
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it was creted the territories of kansas and nebraska and opned new land but it repealed the missiounaries compromise of the 1820 and allowed settlers in those territories to determine if they would allows the slavery.
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willmot proviso
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one of the major evebnt leading to teh civil war and would have banned slavery in any territory to be acquired from mexico in the mexican war of the future. the one who start was david wilmot the first provise in the united states.
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william lyod garrison
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he was a promominent american aboilitionanist,jpurnalist, and also a social farmer but he was know as the editor of the abolitionist newspaper the liberator and as one of the founders of the anti slavery society, he wnated to help the slave by stoping been slaves.
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federick douglas
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he was an american social reformer, orator, and statesman and he was slave also but he escape then become a leader of the abolitionist movement, gaining note for his dazzling oratory and incisive.
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popular soverighty
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it was a belief that the legitmacy of the state is created by the will or consent of its people that on those times they were source of polititical power and alkso was closely associated to the social contract philosophers with thomas hobbes and john locke.
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undergriund railroad
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lt was informal network of secret routes and safe houses used by the 19th century for trasportation and the unites states used more for the civil war for the trasportations of wepaon. they also used to trasporte the soldiers more fast to war.
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cpmpromise of 1850
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it was icipitate package of five bills that passed in september 1850 and they wre defusing a four yera controtation between the slaves states and the south but the southe deon agree with taht because the south wnat to have slave and the north do not.
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dred scott decision
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it was a ruling by the us supreme court that people of african descent imported into the united states and held as salves wre not protected by the constitution. the court also held the us congress had no authority to prohibit slavery because the united states wnat to over the slavery.
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panic of 1857
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it was a finacial panic in the united states caused by the declining international economy and overexpansion of the domestic economy. the financial begun on the yera 1857 it didnt lost long but the correct recovery it didnt see until years.
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uncle tomis cabin
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is was anti slavery novel by the american harriet beecher stowe and it wsas published on the yera 1852 the novel helped the civil war to stop the war and stop also withe teh slavery because the unites wants to over the slavery.
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bleeding kansas
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they also called the border war but was a series of violent events involving the anti salvery free staters and pro slavery, it took place in the kansas territory and the westren frontier town of the united states.
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crittennden compromises
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it was an usuudessful proposal by kentucky senator john j. critten to resolve the united states secessions crisis of 1860-1861 by adressing the concernsthe that led the states in the deep south of the unites states to contedent secessiosn frtom usa
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fort sumter
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is a thirs system mansony coastal forcification located in charleston harbor, south carolina and that fort is best known as the site upon which the shots initiatiating the american civil war wre fired at the battle of the frot sumter.
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jefferson davis
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it was american stesman and leader of ethe condederate during the cicil war as lincon was for the unio but he was serving as the president for its entire history and the a west point gradute and also he figh the mexicanamerican war.
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anaconda plan
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is the name widely applied to an outline startegy for subduting the secding states in american civil war and its was proposed by generel in chief winified scott and the plan emphasized the blockade of the sourthern ports.
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robert e.lee
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his career united attes army officer and combat egineer and later he became the commanding a general of the confederate army in the civil war and postwar icon of the south lost cause.
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ulysess s. grant
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it was the 18 president of the unites states as well as military commander during the civil war and post war recostruction periods. and also under grants command the union army defeated the confederate military and ended the dondefederate states america.
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iron clads
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it was a steam propelled warship in the early part of the second half of the the 19 century and it protected by iron or steel armor plates. the ironclad developed as a result of the vulnerability of wooden warship to explosive orincediary shells.
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battle of antietan
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it fought on september 17, 1862, near shapbutrg, maryland , and antietan creek, as the part of the maryland campaign but its was the fisrt major battle in the ameircan civial war to take place northern soil.
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amancipation proclamation
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is an executive order and issued by the uniited states preident abrham lincoln during the americal civil war under his war powers. they proclaimed the freedom of 3.1 milion of the antions 4 million . he want to over the slavery because he wants to stop it.
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54th regiment
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its was an infanity regigment that saw extensive service in the union army during the american civil war. the regigment was one of the first official black units inn the united states during the civil war.
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morril tariff act 1861
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he was an american protective tariff law adoptetd on march 2 of 1861 during the buchaham administartion and signed law president james buchaham and democrat. the cat was name afterv the sponsot because it was drafted ot with advice of the pennsylavaniaeconomic henry c. carey.
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humsted act 1862
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is one of the united states federal lawa that gave an applicant freehold to up to 160 acres of underdevelped federal land west of the missisippi river. this law required three steps the application , improve , the land , and file for deed of the tittle.
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legal tebder act 1862
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it was a series of the united sttes suprem court cases in the latter part of the nineteenth century that affirmed the constitutional of the paper mone. on the 1870 case of hephum v. grsowold the court held that papr money wiolated the united sattes contitution.
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pacific raildway act 1862
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itys was series of the acts actress that promoted tha contruction of the trancontinental railroad in the unites attes through authorizing the issuance of ethe goverment bond and the grants of landto railroad companies.
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national bank act 1863
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the wre two unites states the federal laws that established a system national chjarters fro banks , the banks developof the national currency based on bank holdingd of the unites states tresury securities.
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battle of vicksburg
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its was the final major military cation in the vickburg campaign of the civil war . the series of the maneuvers, union ulysess and his army of the tenessee crossed the missippi river drove the confederate army.
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battle of gettyburg
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in and around the town of gettyburg penssylvanuis and the battle with the larghest number of the casualtties in the american civil war and of ten descride as the war turning point.
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copper heads
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the were a vocal group of the democrats in the northern united states that opposed the maerican civial war and wanting an immidiate peace settlement withe the confederate . the repoublicans started calling the nati war because ot the copper heads.
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new york draft riots 1863
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it ws a violent dusturbes in the new york city that wre the culmitation of discount with new lawas poaseed by the congress to dreafts men to fight in the ongoping american civial war. the riota wret the largest cici insurrection in american historical aprt.
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appomattox
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its fought on the morning of aprl 1865 that was final engagment of the confederate states ramy and general robert lee army of the northern virginia before the surrended to the union army under gen. ulysses.
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trent affair
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it was an international diplomatic incident that occuredd during the american cicil war and it occured o the yare november 8 of 1861 in the usss san jancinto and it ws commanded by the union capttain charles wilkes.
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