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Chapters 15 and 16
#1
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Bleeding Kansas
Violence between pro and antislavery
forces in Kansas Territory after the
passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in
1854.
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#2
Compromise of 1850
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The four-step compromise that admitted California as a free
state, allowed the residents of the New Mexico and Utah
territories to decide the slavery issue for themselves, ended the
slave trade in the District of Columbia, and passed a new
fugitive slave law to enforce the constitutional provision stating
that a slave escaping into a free state shall be delivered back to
the owner.
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#3
Confederate States of
America
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Nation proclaimed in Montgomery,
Alabama, in February 1861, after the
seven states of the Lower South seceded
from the United States.
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#4
Constitutional Union Party
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National party formed in 1860, mainly by
former Whigs, that emphasized allegiance
to the Union and strict enforcement of all
national legislation.
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#5
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Copperheads
A term Republicans applied to Northern
war dissenters and those suspected of
aiding the Confederate cause during the
Civil War.
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#6
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Dred Scott decision
Supreme Court ruling, in a lawsuit brought by
Dred Scott, a slave demanding his freedom
based on his residence in a free state, that
slaves could not be U.S. citizens and that
Congress had no jurisdiction over slavery in
the territories.
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Emancipation Proclamation
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Decree announced by President Abraham
Lincoln in September 1862 and formally
issued on January 1, 1863, freeing slaves
in all Confederate states still in rebellion.
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#8
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Fugitive Slave Law
Part of the Compromise of 1850 that
required the authorities in the North to
assist Southern slave catchers and return
runaway slaves to their owners.
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#9
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Homestead Act
Law passed by Congress in May 1862
providing homesteads with 160 acres of
free land in exchange for improving the
land within five years of the grant.
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#10
Kansas-Nebraska Act
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Law passed in 1854 creating the Kansas
and Nebraska Territories but leaving the
question of slavery open to residents,
thereby repealing the Missouri
Compromise.
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#11
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Know-Nothings
Name given to the antiimmigrant party
formed from the wreckage of the Whig
Party and some disaffected Northern
Democrats in 1854.
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#12
Lecompton constitution
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Proslavery draft written in 1857 by Kansas
territorial delegates elected under questionable
circumstances; it was rejected by two
governors, supported by President Buchanan,
and decisively defeated by Congress.
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#13
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Legal Tender Act
Act creating a national currency in
February 1862.
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#14
Lincoln-Douglas debates
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Series of debates in the 1858 Illinois
senatorial campaign during which
Douglas and Lincoln staked out their
differing opinions on the issue of slavery.
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#15
Morrill Land Grant Act
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Law passed by Congress in July 1862
awarding proceeds from the sale of public
lands to the states for the establishment
of agricultural and mechanical colleges.
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#16
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Morrill Tariff Act
Act that raised tariffs to more than double
their prewar rate.
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#17
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National Bank Act
Act prohibiting state banks from issuing
their own notes and forcing them to apply
for federal charters.
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#18
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Panic of 1857
Banking crisis that caused a credit crunch
in the North; it was less severe in the
South, where high cotton prices spurred a
quick recovery.
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#19
Peninsular campaign
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Union offensive led by McClellan with the
objective of capturing Richmond.
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#20
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Popular sovereignty
A solution to the slave crises suggested by
Michigan senator Lewis Cass by which
territorial residents, not congress, would
decide slavery's fate.
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#21
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Republican Party
Party that emerged in the 1850s in the
aftermath of the bitter controversy over
the Kansas-Nebraska Act, consisting of
former Whigs, some Northern Democrats,
and many Know-Nothings.
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#22
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13
Amendment
Constitutional amendment ratified in
1865 that freed all slaves throughout the
United States.
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Reference
Faragher, J. M., Buhle, M. J., Czitrom, D., & Armitage, S. H. (2009). Out of
many: A history of the American people, Vol. I (5th ed.). Upper
Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
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