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Fisher US Review 3
US History Regents Review Packet 3
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Nationalism | Pride in and loyalty to one's country |
| Sectionalism | Loyalty to a particular part of one's country |
| Slavery | Ownership of humans for the purpose of forced labor |
| Missouri Compromise | 1820 agreement attempting to solve slavery issue by banning slavery in the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase |
| Compromise of 1850 | Agreement that California was a free state and new territories would decide the slavery issue by popular sovereignty |
| Popular Sovereignty | Rule by the people |
| Fugitive Slave Act | 1850 law that required all escaped slaves to be returned to their owners |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | Overturned Missouri Compromise and allowed Kansas and Nebraska to decide the slavery issue by popular sovereignty |
| Bleeding Kansas | Violent confrontations between pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups in Kansas resulting in the deaths of 60 people |
| Dred Scott v Sandford | Supreme Court decision that slaves were property and owners could not be denied their property wherever they lived |
| Abolitionists | People who oppose slavery |
| William Lloyd Garrison | Abolitionist, founder of the American Anti-Slavery Society, publisher of The Liberator calling for an end to slavery |
| Frederick Douglass | Escaped slave who became a key abolitionist leader of the American Anti-Slavery Society |
| The Liberator | Anti-slavery newspaper published by William Lloyd Garrison |
| John Brown | Abolitionist who led a raid on a federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, VA to start a slave uprising. Executed for treason |
| Civil War | 1861-1865 conflict between the North (Union) and the South (Confederacy) mainly over slavery and states' rights issues |
| Union | Northern states during the Civil War |
| Confederacy | Southern states who seceded from the US during the Civil War |
| Emancipation Proclamation | 1863 law signed by Lincoln freeing all slaves in the Confederacy |
| 13th Amendment | 1865 Abolished all slavery in the US |
| Reconstruction | Period after the Civil War of rebuilding the South and repairing relationships between Northern and Southern states |
| Radical Republicans | Political group who blamed the South for the Civil War and opposed forgiveness. Also supported the rights of freedmen |
| Freedmen | Former slaves freed after the 13th amendment |
| Black Codes | Racist laws passed after the Civil War to restrict the freedom of former slaves |
| Sharecropping | Farming system used to keep freed slaves in an economic and social condition similar to slavery after the Civil War |
| Tenant Farming | Another term for sharecropping |
| Scalawags | Southern Republicans who supported Lincoln and the rights of freedmen, hated by white supremists |
| Carpetbaggers | Northerners who bought land in the south cheaply after the Civil War, supported freedmen's rights. Hated by southerners |
| 14th Amendment | 1868 Blacks granted citizenship |
| Due Process | The right of citizens to all the steps of the legal process before being convicted/punished |
| Equal Protection Under the Law | The right of all citizens to equal treatment in the legal system |
| 15th Amendment | 1870 Black men granted voting rights |
| Literacy Tests | Exams requiring proof of ability to read before being allowed to vote. Designed to fail blacks to deny their voting rights |
| Poll Tax | Requirement of property ownership and payment of a fee before voting. Designed to deny blacks their voting rights |
| Grandfather Clause | Illiterate men or those who didn't own property could vote if their grandfather had. Increased white men's ability to vote |
| Jim Crow Laws | Segregation laws in the South. Discriminated against blacks by enforcing racial separation |
| Plessy v Ferguson | 1896 Supreme Court decision that segregation was legal as long as the facilities for blacks were separate but equal |