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unit3 vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| tariff | tax on foreign goods imported into the country |
| section (sectional) | a geographic map |
| missiouri compromise | 1820 agreement calling for tyhe admission of missiouri as a slave state and maine as a free state ,and out lawing in the future states |
| compromise of 1850 | agreement which democrats agreed to give rutherford b.hayess the victory in the presidential election of 1876 and hayes,agreed to remove the remaining federal troops from sokuthern states |
| fugitive slave act | part of the compromise of 1850,a law ordering all citizens of the united states to assist in return of slaves |
| kansas nebraska act of 1854 | law that calls for the creation of two new territory,territory choose wheither slaves would be allowed |
| popular sovereignty | policy of letting a state chose wheither slavery would be allowed |
| nullify | to reject,when a state judge orfederal law to be unconstutionalized |
| turner rebellion | unseccessful slave revolt led by nat turner in 1831 |
| abolishonist movement | movement to end slavery |
| seneca fall convention | the first women right convention in the united states history,held in 1848 |
| suffrage | the right to vote |
| dred scott v. sanford | 1857 supreme court decision that stated that slaves were not citizens |
| fort sumter | federal fort in the habor of charleston,south carolina,where the confederate attacted for the start of the war |
| secede | to withdraw formally from a membership in group organization |
| emancipation proclamation | a presidential decree,by president lincoln,that freed slaves in confederate hold territory |
| gettysburg address | a famous speech by abraham lincolnon the meaning of the civil war |
| reconstruction | progran implemented by the federal gov.between 1865-1877 to repair the damage from the south |
| radical republicans | group of congressman from within the republican party who believed that the civil war had been fought over moral issues |
| 13th admendment | the right for all citizens to vote |
| 14th admendment | all person born or naturalized in the u.s are citizens |
| 15th admendment | the right of citizens to be abled to vote |
| compromise of 1877 | agreement in which democrats agreed to give ruther b. hayes victory in the presidential election of 1876 |
| transcontinental railroad | railway extending from coast to coast |
| confederate state of america | association of seven seceeding southern stateds,formed in 1861 |
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