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Unit III Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Tariff | Tax on foreign goods imported into a country. |
| Section (sectional) | A geograghic region |
| Missouri Compromise | An agreement in 1820,where Missouri is a slave state and Maine is free state |
| Compromise of 1850 | Agreement to ease tension caused by the espansion of slavery in the western territory |
| Fugitive Slave Act | A law ordering all citizens of the United States to assist in the return of all escaped slaves |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 | Law that states that the citizens in each territory should decide whether slavery wsould be allowed there |
| Popular sovereignty | Policy letting people in na territory decide to to be a free state or slave state. |
| Nullify | To reject, to be unconstitutional |
| Turner’s Rebellion | Slave revolt led by Nat Turner in 1831 |
| Abolitionist Movement | Movement to end slavery. |
| Seneca Falls Convention | First woman's rights convention in United States history,in 1848 |
| Suffrage | The right to vote |
| Dred Scott v. Sanford | 1857 Supreme Court decision that stated thst slaves were not citizens and declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional |
| Fort Sumter | Federal fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina where the confederate attacked on the fort starting the civil war |
| secede | To end |
| Emancipation Proclamation | A presidential decree that freed slaves in confederate-held territory,effecdtive January,1,1863 |
| Gettysburg Address | A famouse speech by president Lincoln on the meaning of the civil war |
| Reconstruction | Implement by the federal government between 1865 to 1877 to repair the damage to the south |
| Radical Republicans | A group of congressmen from within the republican party that insist that the main goal of reconstruction should be a total reconstructing of society to guarantee blacks true equality |
| 13th Amendment | Amendment abolishing slavery |
| 14th Amendment | Amendment to guarantee citizens equal protection under the law |
| 15th Amendment | Amendment that guaranteed voting rights to all male citizens |
| Compromise 1877 | Agreement in which Democrats agreed to give Rutherford B. Hayes the victory in the presidential election of 1876, as long as he brings back the remaining troops from southern states |
| Transcontinental Railroad | Railway extending from coast to coast. |
| Confederate States of America | Seven seceding southern states, formed in 1861 |
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