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Va History Unit III

VA History Unit III vocabulary

QuestionAnswer
Tariff A tax on imported products
Section a geographic area
Missouri Compromise In 1820 a compromise was made to allow slavery in Missouri and Maine as a free state. It also included that any new state to the north west would be free.
Fugitive Slave Act In 1850 a law was made that required citizens to help return any runaway slaves.
Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 In 1854 a law allowed two new territories, Kansas and Nebraska, to decide whether they would allow slavery.
Popular sovereignty A Policy that allowed the people in a territory to decide whether they would allow slavery.
Nullify To reject, get rid of, or disregard.
Compromise of 1850 An agreement made to make the balance of slavery states versus free states more fair.
Turner's Rebellion In 1831 Nat Turner tried to lead a slave revolt but failed.
Abolitionist Movement Movement to end slavery
Seneca Falls Convention A meeting of women wanting to fight for women's right to vote held in Seneca Falls in 1848.
suffrage The right to vote.
Dred Scott v. Sanford In 1857, the Supreme Court made a decision that stated that slaves were not citizens even in free states and that living in free states did not free slaves.
Fort Sumter The confederate attack on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, was the start of the Civil War.
secede To withdraw from a country, group or organization.
Emancipation Proclamation On January 1, 1863, President Lincoln declared all slaves freed even in the confederate territories.
Gettysburg Address A famous speech by President Lincoln at Gettysburg in November 1863 about the Civil War.
Reconstruction The federal government repaired the damage to the South caused by the Civil War.
Radical Republicans Group of Congressmen in the Republican Party who believed that the Civil War had been fought over the moral issue of slavery, and believed that the main goal should be to restructure society to give blacks true equality.
13th Amendment Constitutional amendment, ratified in 1865, abolishing slavery.
14th Amendment Constitutional amendment, ratified in 1868, to guarantee citizens equal protection under the law.
15th Amendment Constitutional amendment, ratified in 1870, that guaranteed voting rights to all male citizens.
Compromise of 1877 Compromise where Democrats agreed to declare Rutherford B. Hayes President and Hayes agreed to remove the federal troops from the southern states.
Transcontinental Railroad Railway extending from coast to coast
Confederate States of America The seven Southern states who declared seceding and formed their own country in 1861.
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