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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Definition
US would pay $15 million for Cali, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada and set boundary for the Rio Grande-Texas border.
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Wilmot Proviso
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Outlawed slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico
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Compromise of 1850
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Texas paid 10 million to Mexico to give up any claims of New Mexico
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Fugitive Slave Law 1850
Definition
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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Gadsden Purchase
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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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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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by Harriet Beacher Stowe, 100,000 copies sold in North alone
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
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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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Charles Sumner
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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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Dred Scott
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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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John Brown
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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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South Carolina Secession
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first state to secede after Election of Lincoln. All reasons were about slavery.
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Crittenden Compromise
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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 Sumter
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Fort in South Carolina where first shots were fired to start Civil War
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North Advantages
Definition
North had more population 4:1
Immigrants would arrive in North and not south
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Abraham Lincoln
Definition
Main focus was to keep the Union intact
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Emancipation Proclamation
Definition
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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Blacks in Union Army
Definition
very small, 54th regiment, weren’t allowed to fight really
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Anaconda Strategy
Definition
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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Jefferson Davis
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President of Confederacy during Civil War, was charged with treason and war crimes after the war
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Confederate Finanaces
Definition
money backed by cotton
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Battle of Bull Run
Definition
First Battle, North had to retreat to Washington DC
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Monitor and Merrimack
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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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Battle of Shiloh
Definition
up to 20,000 men die
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Battle of Antietam
Definition
bloodest single day in American history, 23000 dead, fought on Union Soil
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Battle of Gettysburg
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– climatic battle of Civil War, Lee’s last ditch effort to take Washington
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Pickett's Charge
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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's March
Definition
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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Appomattox
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Final battle by Lee before he surrendered to Grant.
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John Wilkes Booth
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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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