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Unit 3 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Tariff | a tax on imports and exports |
| section (sectional) | different sections of politics; local or regional |
| Missouri Compromise | Missouri was admitted as a slave state, Maine as a free state, and slavery was prohibited in the Louisiana Purchase north of latitude 36°30′N |
| compromise of 1850 | an attempt to give both sides something. Admitted California as a free state but let other new states decide for themselves |
| Fugitive Slave Act | allowed slave owners to capture and claim slaves that had escaped to the North |
| Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854 | the Kansas-Nebraska Act was devised as a compromise. It was hoped it would reduce tensions and perhaps provide a solution to the slavery issue but failed and caused more tension. |
| Popular sovereignty | people living in a territory or state should be able to decide whether or not they want slavery |
| Nullify | to deprive |
| Turners Rebellion | slave owner became more strict and harsh on their slaves |
| Abolitionist Movement | a movement to end slavery |
| Seneca Falls Convention | a women's rights convention held at Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848, organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
| suffrage | the right to vote |
| Dred Scott v. Sanford | It determined slaves were not citizens of either their state of residence or the US, and therefore couldn't bring suit against their "owners" in court. According to Chief Justice Roger Taney, slaves were property, not humans. |
| Fort Sumter | a fort in SE South Carolina, in the harbor of Charleston: its bombardment by the Confederates opened the Civil War on April 12, 1861. |
| Secede | to make a formal withdrawal of membership |
| Emancipation Proclamation | the proclamation issued by President Lincoln on January 1, 1863, freeing the slaves in those territories still in rebellion against the Union. |
| Gettysburg Address | A speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War. Lincoln was speaking at the dedication of a soldiers' cemetery at the site of the Battle of Gettysburg |
| Reconstruction | the process by which the states that had seceded were reorganized as part of the Union after the Civil War |
| Radical Republicans | The Radical Republicans who supported equal rights for the Freedman (former slaves) and opposed President Lincoln's plans for re-uniting the United States. They held power in Congress until the the Democrats won majority in 1874. |
| 13th Amendment | made slavery illegal |
| 14th Amendment | gave African Americans the right to be citizens |
| 15th Amendment | no American can be denied the right to vote |
| Compromise 1877 | unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election, and ended Reconstruction in the South |
| Transcontinental Railroad | The first railroad to go across the United States |
| Confederate States of America | the group of 11 Southern states that seceded from the United States in 1860–61 |
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