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USH vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| sectionalism | the greater loyalty many americans felt toward their section |
| Radical Republican | a faction of american politicians within the republican party from about 1854 until the end of reconstruction in 1877. opposed slavery |
| Missouri compromise | 36 30 line Missouri slave state Maine free state |
| compromise of 1850 | California admitted as a free state. south got the fugitive slave act |
| kansas-nebraska act | kansas and nebraska settlers got to vote on wether the new territory would be free |
| dred scott decision | dred scott got taken out of the slave states to free states and he said he was free but they said slaves are property and can't be freed that way |
| reconstruction | period of rebuilding the nation after the civil war |
| amendment | an article added to the us constitution |
| 13th amendment | abolished slavery everywhere in the united states |
| 14th amendment | gave african amaricans citizenship |
| 15th amendment | banned states from denying african americans the right to vote |
| carpetbagger | northerners who moved to the south after the war |
| ku klux klan | a secret group of white southerners who used violence to keep blacks from voting |
| george washington carver | wan an american scientist, educator and inventor. improved farming |
| sharecropping | system in which landowners gave a few acres of land to farm workers in return for a portion of their crops |
| tentant farming | renting land from landowners for cash |
| literacy tests | tests for potential citizens at the federal level. for immigrants. southern states used them as a part of the voter registration |
| poll taxed | a tax levied on every adult without reference to income or resources |
| grandfather clauses | a claus exempting certain classes of people of things from the requirements of a piece of legislation affecting their previous rights privileges or practices |
| jim crow laws | laws enacted by southern states and local governments to separate white and black people in public and private facilities |
| Booker T. Washington | was an african american educator and advisor to the presidents of the us. leader of the newly released slaves advised blacks should first prepare themselves to earn a decent living before they tried to gain equal rights |
| N.A.A.C.P. | the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People - an organization founded in 1909 to promote full racial equality |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | an 1896 case in which the supreme court ruled that separation of the races in public accommodations was legal, thus establishing the "separate but equal" doctrine. |
| W.E.B. DuBois | civil rights activist. cofounder of the N.A.A.C.P. leader of a group of african-american activists who wanted equal rights for blacks believed african americans should immediately begin the stifle for equal rights and font settle |
| Bleeding Kansas | the period of violence during the settling of the Kansas Territiory. Proslavery and free state settlers flooded into Kansas to try to influence the decision. Violence erupted |
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