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Standard 3 Notes
Reconstruction
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Abolitionist | A person agaisnt slavery. |
| Nonviolence | Not to be abused or mistreated. |
| Slave Pen | A place where the slaves were fixed up to look nice for buyers. |
| Religion | A belief. |
| Emancipation | Freeing a person from control of another. |
| Petition | A written request signed by many people appealing to authority to a particular case. |
| Gag rule | Saying you cannot speak out agaisnt slavery. |
| Bleeding Kansas | The border war involving anti-slavery, free-states and pro-slavery. |
| Free States vs Slave States | |
| Personal Liberty Act | |
| Fugitive Slave Act | |
| Dred Scott Decision | A court case that said "once a slave always a slave". |
| Angelina Grimke | A rich southern abolitionist who believed slavery was agaisnt Gods will. She also believed in nonviolence. |
| Fredrick Douglass | A former slave that worked with John Brown. |
| William Lloyd Garrison | |
| The Liberator | A paper read by Fredrick Douglass, stating slaves should be freed. |
| John Brown | A aboltionist that worked with Fredrick Douglass who did NOT believe in nonviolence. |
| Dred Scott | A former slave/abolitionist who had a case that said "once a slave always a slave" that then was "once a slave now a citizen". |
| "Put on the full armor of God" | A quote said by William Garrison meaning, fight he good fight of the faith. |
| "Give no quarter" | |
| "His diploma is written on his back" | A quote said by John Brown meaning he worked for his freedom. |
| "Caution. It is the nothing but the word of cowardice" | |
| "Africa" | |
| "Let loose the dogs of war" | A quote said by John Brown |
| "Cry Havoc ! And let slip the dogs of war. That this foul deed shall smell above the earth" | John Brown said this because he believed you SHOULD be punished by God, for your sins. |
| "Sic Semper tyrannis" | |
| "Et tu Brute" | |
| Reconstruction | |
| 13th Amendment | |
| 14th Amendment | |
| 15th Amendment | |
| Freedmans Bureau | |
| Compromise of 1850 | |
| Kansas Nebraska Act | |
| Black Codes | |
| 1876 | |
| Compromise of 1877 | |
| Carpetbaggers | |
| Scalawags | |
| Radical Republicans | |
| Klu Klux Klan (KKK) | Upper class white men that hated african americans, abolitionists, carpetbaggers and scalawags. |
| Ulysses S Grant | |
| The Negro Question |