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| Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan |
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| During the Civil War in December 1863. Lincoln offered a full pardon to all Southerners called the 10 percent reconstruction plan. |
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| opponents of slavery found the choice between Lewis Cass and General Zachary Taylor unsatisfying, so they started there own group. |
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| adherents saw the expansion of American democracy as a way to divert attention from the controversies over slavery. |
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| attempted to legalize slavery, voters continued to reject the constitution; Kansas did not enter the Union until 1861, as a free state. |
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| Officials and a group of distillers operating as a "whiskey ring" were cheating the government out of taxes by filing false reports. |
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| Abolished Slavery in all parts of the United States. |
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| Proposed to reestablish the Missouri Compromise line and extend it westward to the Pacific Coast. |
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| ammendment introduced to the appropriation bill prohibiting slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico. It passed in the House but failed in the Senate. |
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| Former Whigs who had never felt comfortable in the Democratic Party or formers who lived in remote areas where there had been little or no slavery. |
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| Those in the democratic party who were known as Peace Democrats |
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| America demands that the English pay for the damage these vessels had caused. Alabama was the ship the English helped the south build, which violated the neutrality laws during the civil war. |
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| declared that Scott could not bring a suit in the federal courts because he was not a citizen. |
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| Conservative oligarchy whose members controlled the south after the civil war. Also known as "Bourbons." |
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| Battle of Antietam (1862) |
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| September 17- McClellan's 87,000-man army repeatedly attacked Lee's force of 50,000. With staggering casualties on both sides. |
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| White men from the North, most of them veterans of the Union army who looked on the South as a new frontier, more promising then the west. |
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| One of the major victories Grant had achieved. Vicksburg surrendered on July 4th, after being attacked from the rear. |
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| Confiscation Act- (1861-1862) |
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| declared that all slaves used for "insurrectionary" purposes would be considered less freed. |
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| Two confederate diplomats, James M. Mason and John Slidell, had slipped through the Union blockade to Havana, Cuba. Where they boarded a English steamer, called the "Trent." |
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