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US History Unit 2
Concepts
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Gettysburg Address | This was given by Lincoln and placed the Civil War into the historical context of the American fight for freedom |
| The Emancipation Proclamation | Legally freed all slaves in rebellious Confederate states |
| Civil War Military Technology | repeating weapons, pistol & rifle, cannons, iron & steel technology, formation (low to ground and behind cover) |
| Sharecroppers | Many freedmen and poor whites went to work on the large plantations. These people rented and farmed a plot of land. Planters provided seed, fertilizer, and tools in return for a share of the crop at harvest time |
| Carpetbaggers | Uncomplimentary name for a Northerner who went to the South after the war |
| Scalawags | Southern Republicans who were considered traitors for helping the North |
| 13th Amendment | Abolished slavery |
| 14th Amendment | Declared former slaves to be citizens with the same rights |
| 15th Amendment | Citizens can't be denied the right to vote because of race, color, or previous condition. Protects the right to vote |
| Missouri Compromise | Missouri was a slave state and Maine was free. It divided the Louisiana Territory with slavery legal in the south, but no in the north. |
| Marbury vs Madison | Judicial Review. 1803 case in which Justice Marshall first asserted the right of the Supreme Court do determine meaning of the Constitution |
| Louisiana Purchase | Led by Lewis and Clark in which it doubled the size of the US. Known as the biggest real estate deal for US. |
| Abolition | Movement to end slavery |
| Spoils system | Jackson - political power for all classes. Gives government jobs to supporters |
| Monroe Doctrine | A statement of foreign policy which proclaimed that Europe should not interfere in affairs within the United States or in the development of other countries in the Western Hemisphere |
| Indian Removal Act | 1830, authorizing the removal of Native Americans who lived east of the Mississippi River to lands in the West. Removal treaties Cherokee would not sign. Supreme court upheld, Jefferson ignored court |
| Nullification | Southerners (Calhoun) declared federal protective tariffs null and void, Sovereign state could proclaim laws unconstitutional |
| The fugitive slave act | paid federal commissioners were appointed and given authority to issue warrants, gather, possess and force citizens to help catch runaway slaves; the slaves could not testify on their own behalf, "Man-Stealing Law". shocked moderates |
| Underground railroad | a system of secret routes used by escaping slaves to reach freedom in the North or in Canada |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | 1854 - Created Nebraska and Kansas as states and gave the people in those territories the right to choose to be a free or slave state through popular sovereignty. |
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