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| siege led by Grant that gave union control of mississippi and helped to turn the course of the war |
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| slave who became a national hero when he freed himself and his family from slavery in 1862 by commandeering a Confederate transport ship(the Planter) to freedom in Charleston harbor. Served in the SC State legislature and US House of Representatives. Authored legislation that created the first free and compulsory public school system in America, founded the Republican Party of SC and successfully convinced President Lincoln to accept African American soldiers into the Union army. |
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| political party of US during Jacksonian Democracy era. Formed in 1833 by former National Republicans such as Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams and Southern States Rights supporters such as W.P. Mangum. party was formed in opposition to policies of Jackson and Democratic party. supported supremacy of Congress over executive branch and favored program of modernization and economic protectionism. Members included Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and William Henry Harrison |
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informal, unwritten deal that awarded Rutherford B Hayes the presidency in the election of 1876 with understanding that he would remove federal troops from South Carolina,Florida and Louisiana |
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american abolitionist who abdicated and practiced armed insurrection as a means to end all slavery
Oct 16, 1859 led 21 men on raid of Federal Arsenal at Harper's Ferry Virginia. ill fated raid were most of men were killed and Brown was caught and hanged |
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| battle of appomattox courthouse 1865 was final engagement of General Robert E Lees army of northern VA. Before it surrendered to the Union army under Leitenant General Ulysses S Grant near the end of American Civil War. |
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| fought in 1836 in present day Harris County, Texas. was decisive battle of the Texas Revolution. led by General Sam Houston, Texas Army engaged and defeated General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna's(president of Mexico) Mexican forces in a fight that lasted eighteen minutes. paved way for Texas to become an independant country. |
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a panic in US built on poor financial and economic policies that caused a five yr depression in US.
price of cotton fell, banks all over suspended specie payments, businesses went bankrupt, and unemployed workers demonstrrated in several cities. |
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| pro-slavery forces introduced series of gag rules that automatically tabled any anti-slavery petitions. preventing them from being read or discussed. 1835-1844 |
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| Between 1836 and Civil War publicized inhumane treatment in prisons,almhouses, and insane asylums. as result, 15 states opened new hospitals for the insane and others improved their supervision of penitentiaries, asylums, and poor houses. ranks as one of most practical and effective of all reformers of pre-Civil War era. |
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| since birth of republic, there had been a major dispute over boundary between Main and Canadian province of New Brunswick. In 1939, fighting broke out between Canadian lumberjacks and Maine militia. lasted until 1842 when Secretary of State Daniel Webster concluded an agreement with British government, represented by Lord Ashburton that gave over half of disputed territory to the US and established a definite northeastern boundary with Canada. |
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| pro-slavery document for and ratified by Kansas in 1857. urged by president Buchanan to enter as a slave state |
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| Declaration of Sentiments |
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| issued by first national gathering for women's rights at Senica Falls Convention in NY in 1848. authored by Elizabeth Cady Stanton.articulated the rights of women, listed types of discrimination women faced in the mid-1800s, and offered solutions. |
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| 1856 congressman Preston Brooks SC beat Senator Charles Sumner MS in Senate chambers after a speech given by Sumner that Brooks thought to be insulting to his home state. |
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AKA Petticoat Affair-US scandal in 1831 involving members of Jackson's cabinet.
Margarate "Peggy" O'Neal-daughter of DC boarding house owner. had reputation of being overly flirtatious. her husband, John B Timberlake apparently heard of Peggy having a miscarriage while he was away at sea for longer than 9 months. he then committed suicide. it was believed the reason was peggy's assumed affair with Secretary of War, John Henry Eaton. Peggy therafter married him thereby scandalizing the respectable women of the capital |
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| was a series of violent events, involving Free-Soilers (anti-slavery) and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian" elements, that took place in the Kansas Territory and the western frontier towns of the U.S. state of Missouri roughly between 1854 and 1858. These incidents were attempts to influence whether Kansas would enter the Union as a free or slave state. |
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| between Webster and Hayes regarding protectionist tariffs took place Jan19th-27th in 1830 and culminated in Daniel Webster's second reply to Robert Hayne and regarded as most eloquent speach ever delivered in Congress. |
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Born 1811 died 1896
intensly committed Christian woman who hated slavery and spoke out against it. wrote famouse book "Uncle Tom's Cabin". the book gave support to the anti-slavery people and enflamed pro-slavery people because of its content |
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| in decade leading up to Civil War, pro-slavery activists from Missouri who endevered to establish slavery in Kansas |
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| people living in territory decide if they are going to be a free or slave state |
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| commander of confederate army of northern West Virginia in Civil War |
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| lived 1799 – September 17, 1858, was a slave in the United States who sued unsuccessfully in St. Louis, Missouri for his freedom on grounds that he had lived for many years in an area where slavery had been outlawed by Missouri Compromise. in the infamous Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857. Taney announced that majority had ruled against Scott in argument that no African American, slave or free could be a citizen of the US |
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| series of laws passed by several U.S. states in the North in response to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 and 1850.designed to protect free blacks, freedmen, and fugitive slaves by effectively nullifying the Fugitive Slave Law without actually invoking the controversial doctrine of nullification.done through provisions such as forbidding the use of state jails to imprison alleged fugitives, to prevent state officials from enforcing the strict law, and compelling slave bounty hunters to furnish corroborative proof that his captive was a fugitive, as well as according the accused the rights to trial by jury and appeal. |
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| the cost of war was depleating the US treasury created the need for some other kind of currency than than gold or silver. people were hoarding it. to correct problem, in 1862, 15mil$ greenbacks(treasury notes called so because of color) were issued |
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| 1858 debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas on slavery. they were campaigning for their respective parties to win control of the Illinois legislature |
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| wrote Uncle Robin, in His Cabin in Virginia, and Tom Without One in Boston (sometimes shortened to simply Uncle Robin's Cabin) is an 1853 pro-slavery novel. written in response to the anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" |
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| won by Lincoln and set stage for American Civil War |
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| The Know Nothing movement was a nativist American political movement of the 1840s and 1850s. It was empowered by popular fears that the country was being overwhelmed by Irish Catholic immigrants, who were often regarded as hostile to U.S. values and controlled by the Pope in Rome. Mainly active from 1854 to 1856, it strove to curb immigration and naturalization, though its efforts were met with little success.The movement originated in New York in 1843 as the American Republican Party. It spread to other states as the Native American Party and became a national party in 1845. In 1855 it renamed itself the American Party.[3] The origin of the "Know Nothing" term was in the semi-secret organization of the party. When a member was asked about its activities, he was supposed to reply, "I know nothing."[ |
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| introduced on August 8, 1846, submitted by Democratic Congressman David Wilmot, was to prevent the introduction of slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico. |
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| laws passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and 1850 to provide for the return of slaves who escaped from one state into another or into a public territory. |
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statutes enacted by Southern states and municipalities, beginning in the 1880s, that legalized segregation between blacks and whites
Railways and streetcars, public waiting rooms, restaurants, boardinghouses, theaters, and public parks were segregated; separate schools, hospitals, and other public institutions, generally of inferior quality, were designated for blacks |
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| Early in his administration Jackson abandoned official cabinet meetings and used heads of departments solely to execute their departmental duties, while the policies of his administration were formed in meetings of the Kitchen Cabinet. The members of the informal cabinet included the elder Francis P. Blair, Duff Green, Isaac Hill, Amos Kendall, and William B. Lewis. John H. Eaton of the regular cabinet met with the group; Martin Van Buren also was taken into its confidence |
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| (December 13, 1805 – May 24, 1879) was a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer. He is best known as the editor of the radical abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator, and as one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society, he promoted "immediate emancipation" of slaves in the United States. Garrison was also a prominent voice for the women's suffrage movement and a notable critic of the prevailing conservative religious orthodoxy that supported slavery and opposed suffrage for women. |
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| was a series of violent events, involving Free-Soilers (anti-slavery) and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian" elements, that took place in the Kansas Territory and the western frontier towns of the U.S. state of Missouri roughly between 1854 and 1858. These incidents were attempts to influence whether Kansas would enter the Union as a free or slave state. |
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| passed in 1820, the Missouri Compromise kept the balance of power in the Senate by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. THe agreement temporarily settled the argument over slavery in the territories |
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