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| US would pay $15 million for Cali, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada and set boundary for the Rio Grande-Texas border. |
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| Outlawed slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico |
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| Texas paid 10 million to Mexico to give up any claims of New Mexico |
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runaway slaves were denied trial by jury
- Slave owners would pay judges $10 to send slave back to south where abolitionist would pay $5
-if slave owner claimed runaway slave, that was sufficient evidence
-$1000 dollar fine and imprisonment for helping a runaway slave |
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| U.S. bought land south of Gila River and west of rio grand in south Arizona-New Mexico area to construct the continental railroad all the way west |
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| by Harriet Beacher Stowe, 100,000 copies sold in North alone |
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| Created Kansas and Nebraska and gave them the oppourtunity for popular sovergnty whether they would be slave or free states contrary to Missouri Compromise which set all northern states free and southern states slave. Cause alot of tension in voting and eventually led to bloodshed. |
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| Massachusettes senator, believed in antislavery and that slaves should be literate before they could vote. Powerful abolitionist. |
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| A slave whose master died and was left to abolitionist. He was denied his freedom because he could not sue in court. This was a deliberate case to show that even the highest officials like the supreme court are affected by slavery. |
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| stole a bunch of arms to give to slaves to start uprising, captured by Robert E Lee who branded it as Norths effort to ban slavery by accusing north of giving slaves arms. |
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| first state to secede after Election of Lincoln. All reasons were about slavery. |
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| Called for extension of 36-30 parallel all the way to pacific, seperating norht and south states. Also that the 13th amendemnet forbidding congress to abolish slavery. |
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| Fort in South Carolina where first shots were fired to start Civil War |
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North had more population 4:1
Immigrants would arrive in North and not south |
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| Main focus was to keep the Union intact |
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| Emancipation Proclamation |
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| The only way for the south to win war was to have foreign help. Once this is established, no foreign power would back the south because they would be helping an illegal country. |
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| very small, 54th regiment, weren’t allowed to fight really |
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1.) blockade eastern seaboard and southern coast
2. take ohio river
3. Take Mississippi River
surround south and slowly move inward (constrict) |
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| President of Confederacy during Civil War, was charged with treason and war crimes after the war |
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| First Battle, North had to retreat to Washington DC |
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Monitor- norther ship, water line all the way to top with 2 cannons that rotate 360 degrees
Merrimack- Southern ship, essentially a house with metal siding down to water level and cannons on both sides |
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| bloodest single day in American history, 23000 dead, fought on Union Soil |
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| – climatic battle of Civil War, Lee’s last ditch effort to take Washington |
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| aimed all cannon fire on Cemetary Hill, plan on marching troops in between two hills to divide and conquer but were soon defeated |
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| Sherman marched his army through Georgia and burned alot of their crops and towns and destroyed the souths resources and ability to wage war. |
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| Final battle by Lee before he surrendered to Grant. |
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| famous actor who killed lincoln in Ford's theater because he hated Licoln. Later captured and killed. |
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