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Civil War (1861-1865)
deadliest war in American history; conflict between north (union) and south (confederacy); 11 southern slave states wanted to secede from Union
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-The spreading of settlement to the west

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-the god given right to expand to the Pacific Ocean

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Westward Expansion/Manifest Destiny
-The spreading of settlement to the west
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-the god given right to expand to the Pacific Ocean

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-The spreading of settlement to the west

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-the god given right to expand to the Pacific Ocean

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Freeport Doctrine
Doctrine developed by Stephen Douglas that said the exclusion of slavery in a territory could be determined by the refusal of the voters to enact any laws that would protect slave property. It was unpopular with Southerners, and thus cost him the election.
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Compromise of 1850
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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Kansas-Nebraska Act
1854 - Created Nebraska and Kansas as states and gave the people in those territories the right to chose to be a free or slave state through popular sovereignty.
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Ostend Manifesto
A declaration (1854) issued from Ostend, Belgium, by the U.S. ministers to England, France, and Spain, stating that the U.S. would be justified in seizing Cuba if Spain did not sell it to the U.S.
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Dred Scott Decision
Supreme Court ruling that declared slaves were not viewed as citizens but as property
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states' rights

the rights and powers held by individual US states rather than by the federal government.

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Anaconda Plan
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
(AL) , Issued by Abraham Lincoln on september 22, 1862 it declared that all slaves in the confederate states would be free
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Gettysburg
July 1-3, 1863, turning point in war, Union victory, most deadly battle
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Gettysburg Address
A 3-minute address by Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War (November 19, 1963) at the dedication of a national cemetery on the site of the Battle.
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Vicksburg
split the Confederacy in two and gave the North control of the Mississippi River.
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Stephen Douglas
A moderate, who introduced the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854 and popularized the idea of popular sovereignty.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin

written by harriet beecher stowe in 1853 that highly influenced england's view on the American Deep South and slavery. a novel promoting abolition. intensified sectional conflict.

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Abolitonist
A person who worked to end slavery.
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Seccesion
the action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body, especially a political state.
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agrarian
concerning farms, farmers, or the use of land
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John Brown's Raid

Began when he and his men took over the arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in hopes of starting a slave rebellion.

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Bleeding Kansas
(1856) a series of violent fights between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces in Kansas who had moved to Kansas to try to influence the decision of whether or not Kansas would a slave state or a free state.