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Nat-St Rel to 1877
National State Relations 1850s-1877 for Midterm
Question | Answer |
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Doctrine that said that the Constitution was agreed to by the states and so any state could decide to leave the Union | Compact theory |
Doctrine that said that the Constitution was a contract among the people and so no state had the power to leave the Union | Perpetual Union |
Doctrine enunciated by Stephen Douglas during the Lincoln-Douglas debates that said Congress couldn't force a territory to become a slave state against its will | Freeport |
Protests against the draft in the Civil War | New York riots |
Agreement to withdraw Union troops out of the South in exchange for the Democrats accepting the fraudulent election results and establish Rutherford B. Hayes as president | Compromise of 1877 |
Doctrine that said the people of a territory had the right to decide their own laws by voting | Popular sovereignty |
Defined citizenship and said states could not deny citizens equal protection and due process | 14th Amendment |
Freed all slaves and abolished slavery | 13th Amendment |
Divided the South into 5 military districts | First Reconstruction Act |
Gave land (160 acres) to settlers who moved out west | Homestead Act |
Freed the slaves in the rebellious states as a military act | Emancipation Proclamation |
Case in which Justice Taney ruled that the president did not have the right to suspend habeas corpus; this decision was ignored by Lincoln and thousands were arrested for disloyal or suspected disloyal acts during the war | Ex Parte Merryman |
Established to help former slaves; helped them find food, clothing, and jobs | Freedmen's Bureau |
Gave land for states to establish colleges | Morrill Land Grant Act |
Said states could not deny a person the right to vote based on race | 15th Amendment |