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Standard 3
Reconstruction
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Abolitionist | A person who favors the abolition of a practice or institution, and capital punishment or (formerly) slavery. |
| Nonviolence | The use of peaceful means, not force, to bring about political or social change |
| Slave pen | a person legally owned by another and having no freedom of action or right to property |
| religion | The belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, esp. a personal God or gods. |
| Emancipation | freeing someone from the control of another; especially a parent's relinquishing authority and control over a minor child. |
| petition | A formal written request, typically one signed by many people, appealing to authority with respect to a particular cause. |
| gag rule | 1.A regulation or directive that prohibits public discussion of a particular matter, in particular. |
| bleeding kansas | Bleeding Kansas, Bloody Kansas or the Border War, was a series of violent events, involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery |
| Free state vs. slave states | |
| personal liberty act | |
| fugitive slave act | Must return runaway slaves |
| Dred scott decision | Denied freedom by supreme court |
| Angelina frimke | Angelina Emily Grimké Weld was an American political activist, abolitionist, women's rights advocate, and supporter of the women's suffrage movement |
| Frederick douglass | He escaped from slavery, and became a leader of the abolitionist movement |
| William lloyd garrison | William Lloyd Garrison was a prominent American abolitionist best known as the editor of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator |
| The Liberator | |
| John Brown | John Brown was an American abolitionist who believed armed insurrection was the only way to overthrow the institution of slavery in the United States |
| Dred Scott | an African-American slave in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and that of his wife and their two daughters in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857 |
| * Put on the full armor of god * | |
| " Give no quarter " | |
| " His diploma is written on his back " | |
| Caution. it is nothing but the word of cowardice | |
| " Africa " | |
| Shakespeare |