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T2 Final Study Guide - Coggle Diagram
T2 Final Study Guide
Abolitionism
Fugitive Slave Laws
Allowed Southern slaveholders to go into the north to hunt down and recapture runaway enslaved people, and gave government officials the ability to issue warrants to arrest runaway enslaved people.
Free black people captured by slave hunters had no right to a trial by jury, so sometimes free black people born in the North would be captured and forced into slavery
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Publication of anti-slavery books, including “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
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Lincoln, realizing he needed more troops and looking to redefine the purpose of the war, issued the Emancipation Proclamation in part to encourage enslaved people and free African Americans to join the Union army and fight for the permanent abolition of slavery.
Manifest Destiny
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Oregon Territory
Meanwhile, as the M-A war is going on, the U.S. negotiates with Britain over the Oregon Territory, which both countries had claimed. They reach a deal: Britain will keep the northern half, and the U.S. will keep the southern half
Causes of the Civil War
Slavery
Abolitionism, Fugitive Slave Laws, Dred Vs Scott case
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