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Mrs terndrup vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Popular Sovereignty | Policy of letting the people in a territory decide whether slavery would be allowed there |
| Seneca Falls Convention | The first women's rights convention in U.S. history, held in 1848 |
| Missouri Compromise | 1820 agreement calling for the admission of Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, and outlawing slavery in future states to be created north of 36degrees 30' N latitude |
| Compromise of 1850 | Agreement designed to ease tensions caused by the expansion of slavery into western territories |
| Fugitive Slave Act | Part of the compromise of 1850, a law ordering all citizens of the U.S. to assist in the return of slaves |
| Nullify | to render or declare legally void or inoperative |
| Turners rebellion | unsuccessful slave revolt led by nat turner in 1831 |
| Abolitionist Movement | movement to end slavery |
| Suffrage | the right to vote |
| Fort Sumter | federal fort in the harbor of charleston south carolina; the confederate attack on the for marked the start of the civil war |
| Secede | to withdraw formally from a memebership in a group or organization |
| Emancipation Proclamation | A presidential decree by president lincoln, effective january 1, 1863, that freed slaves in confederate-held territory |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 | 1854 law that called for the creation of these two new territories |
| Dredd Scott v. Sanford | 1857 supreme court decision that stated that slaves were not citizens |
| Section | a geographic region |
| Tariff | tax on foreign goods imported into a country |
| Transcontinetal Railroad | railway extending from coast to coast |
| 13th Amendment | an amendment to the U.S. constitution, ratified in 1865, abolishing slavery. |
| 14th Amendment | an amendment to the U.S. constitution, ratified in 1868, defining national citizenship and forbidding the states to restrict the basic rights of citizens or other persons. |
| 15th Amendment | an amendment to the U.S. constitution, ratified in 1870, prohibiting the restriction of voting rights “on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. |
| Radical Republicans | group of congressmen from within the republican party who believed that the civil war had been fough over the moral issue of slavery |
| Confederate States of America | Association of 7 seceding southern states formed in 1861 |
| Gettysburg Address | A famous speech by the president lincoln on the meaning of the civil war, given in novemeber 1863 at the dedication of a national cemetery on the site of the battle of gettysburg |
| Reconstruction | program implemented by the federal government between 1865 and 1877 to repair the damage to the south caused by the civil war and restore the southern states to the union |
| Compromise 1877 | agreement in which democrats agreed to give rutherford b hayes the victory in the presdiential election of 1876, and hayes, in return agreed to remove the remaining federal troops from southern states |
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