Wilmot Proviso

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Wilmot proviso
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Bill that would ban slavery in the territories acquired after the War with Mexico
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free-soil party
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political party dedicated to stopping the expansion of slavery
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compromise of 1850
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Includes California admitted as a free state, the Fugitive Slave Act, Made popular sovereignty in most other states from Mexican- American War
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popular sovereignty
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The concept that political power rests with the people who can create, alter, and abolish government. People express themselves through voting and free participation in government
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harriet beecher stowe
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wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Kansas-Nebraska act
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This Act set up Kansas and Nebraska as states. Each state would use popular sovereignty to decide what to do about slavery. People who were proslavery and antislavery moved to Kansas, but some antislavery settlers were against the Act. This began guerrilla warfare.
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john brown
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Abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1858)
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dred scott v. sandford
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1857 Supreme Court decision that stated that slaves were not citizens; that livig in a free state or territory, even for many years, did not free slaves; and declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitional
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abraham lincoln
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16th President of the United States saved the Union during the Civil War and emancipated the slaves; was assassinated by Booth (1809-1865)
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jefferson davis
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President of the Confederate States of America
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john c. beckinridge
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Democrats chose him during the election to become the 16th president
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confederate states of america
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the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861
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crittenden compromise
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1860 - attempt to prevent Civil War by Senator Crittenden - offered a Constitutional amendment recognizing slavery in the territories south of the 36ยบ30' line, noninterference by Congress with existing slavery, and compensation to the owners of fugitive slaves - defeated by Republicans
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fort sumter
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Federal fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina; the confederate attack on the fort marked the start of the Civil War
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robert e. lee
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Confederate general who had opposed secession but did not believe the Union should be held together by force
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anaconda plan
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Union war plan by Winfield Scott, called for blockade of southern coast, capture of Richmond, capture Mississippi R, and to take an army through heart of south
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emancipation proclamation
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Issued by abraham lincoln on september 22, 1862 it declared that all slaves in the confederate states would be free
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habeas corpus
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the civil right to obtain a writ of habeas corpus as protection against illegal imprisonment
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inflation
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a general and progressive increase in prices
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ulysses s. grant
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an American general and the eighteenth President of the United States (1869-1877). He achieved international fame as the leading Union general in the American Civil War.
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battle of gettysberg
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the turning point in the war, Lee was badly defeated & gave up plans to invade the Union. The war was then draged on for 2 more long years.
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gettysberg address
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Lincoln delivered this speech. He mourned for the dead and said that all men were created equal.
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william t. sherman
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general whose march to sea caused destruction to the south
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total war
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the channeling of a nation's entire resources into a war effort
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reconstruction
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the period after the Civil War in the United States when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union
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freedman's bureau
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The bureau's focus was to provide food, medical care, administer justice, manage abandoned and confiscated property, regulate labor, and establish schools.
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andrew johnson
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17th President of the United States
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thirteenth amendment
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radical republican
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Republican who believed that Congress should direct Reconstruction
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impeachment
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a formal document charging a public official with misconduct in office
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sharecropping
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system in which landowners leased a few acres of land to farmworkers in return for a portion of their crops
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ku klux klan
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a secret society of white Southerners in the United States