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| Guaranteed rights of citizenship to former slaves, similar to the Civil Rights Act of 1866 |
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| Constitutional amendment ratified in 1870, which prohibited states from discriminating in voting privileges based on race |
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| Deal proposed by Kentucky senator Henry Clay in 1820 to resolve the salve/free imbalance in congress that would result from Missouri's admission as a slave state; Maine's admission as a free state offset Missouri and slavery was prohibited in the remainder of the Louisiana Territory north of the southern border of Missouri. |
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| Complex compromise devised by Senator Henry Clay that admitted California as a free state, included a stronger fugitive slave law, and delayed determination of the slave status of the New Mexico and Utah territories |
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| Type of farm tenancy that developed after the Civil War in which landless workers farmed land in exchange for farm supplies and a share of the crop. |
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| Proposed decision on whether or not to allow slavery should be left to settlers. |
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| Proposal to prohibit slavery in any land acquired in the Mexican War, but southern senators defeated the measure in 1846 and 1847 |
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| Party founded in 1834 to unite factions opposed to president Andrew Jackson, the party favored federal responsibility for internal improvements; the party ceased to exist by late 1850s, when members divided over slavery issue |
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| Violence between pro- and antislavery settlers in the Kansas territory in 1856 |
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| Law sponsored by Illinois senator Stephen A. Douglas to allow settlers in newly organized territories north of the Missouri border to decide the slavery issue for themselves |
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| Controversial war with Mexico for the control of California and New Mexico (1846-1848); the treaty of Guadalupe hidalgo fixed the border at the Rio Grande and extended the United States to the Pacific Coast, annexing more than a half-million square miles of Mexican territory. |
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| First battle of the Civil Warm in which the federal for in Charleston Harbor was captured by the Confederates on April, 14 1861, after two days of shelling. |
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| Union victory on April 6-7, 1862 |
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| Gave federal authority in cases involving runaway slaves; aroused considerable opposition in the north |
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| Site of the surrender of Confederate general Robert E. Lee to the Union general Ulysses S. Grant on April, 9, 1865, marking the end of the Civil War |
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| Law passed in southern states to restrict the rights of former slaves; to nullify the codes, congress passed the civil rights act of 1866 and the fourteenth amendment |
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| Group within the Republican Party in the 1850s and 1860s that advocated strong resistance to the expansion of slavery, opposition to compromise with the south in the secession crisis of 1860-1861, emancipation and arming of black soldiers during the Civil War, and equal civil and political rights for blacks during reconstruction |
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| Nativist, anti-catholic third party organized in 1854 in reaction to the large-scale German and Irish immigration; the party's only presidential candidate was Millard Fillmore in 1856 |
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| Butchers excluded from a state-sponsored monopoly in Louisiana went to court, claiming their right to equality had been violated. (1873) |
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