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AH1 M8 Review
American History 1 Module 8 Review
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Conflict | Opposing viewpoints, a serious disagreement or argument. |
| Sectionalism | An extreme loyalty to a particular region of a nation and the region's interests and ways of doing things. |
| States' Rights | A belief held by some people that the states should have certain rights, specifically the right to ignore any federal law with which the people of the state do not agree. |
| Civil War | The war between the North and the South in the United States from1861-1865. |
| Slavery | A system where people are treated like property to be bought and sold, and are forced to work against their will, totally under the control of someone else. |
| Slave | A person that is owned like property and is forced to work against their will totally under the control of someone else. |
| Industry | The production of goods, such as in factories where manufacturing occurs. |
| Fugitive | Someone running from the law and the police. |
| Territory | Created by the United States government so it could govern new land while the borders of the United States were still growing. |
| Martyr | Someone who dies for a cause. |
| Secession | Leaving the group of all states of the United States. |
| Declaration of Secession | A formal, written letter that said a state was leaving the group of all states of the United States. |
| Secede | Break away from. |
| Abolition | Getting rid of completely. |
| Emancipation | To be freed. |
| Confederacy | The Southern states that seceded from the Union in February 1861 and formed the Confederate States of America. |
| Battle of Bull Run | The first major battle of the Civil War in 1861. |
| Battle of Antietam | The single bloodiest day of the Civil War in 1862. |
| Emancipation | Document that formally emancipated, or freed, all slaves in Confederate areas not under Union control. |
| Battle of Gettysburg | Known as the turning point of the Civil War. |
| Battle of Vicksburg | Marked the beginning of the end for the Confederacy. |
| John Brown | A leader of the abolitionist cause who led the raid on "Harper's Ferry" in 1859. |
| Harper's Ferry Raid | An event in 1859 in which John Brown led a violent uprising and took over a government weapons storage buildings and hostages in Harper's Ferry in western Virginia. |
| Fugitive Slave Act | A law passed in 1850 that required a runaway slave be returned to his or her "owner" by anyone coming in contact with a slave that has fled to freedom. |
| Bleeding Kansas | Became the center of violence and many people were killed because of the issue of slavery. |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, this book highlighted the awful conditions under which slaves lived and angered people in the North and people in the South. |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" which highlighted the awful conditions under which slaves lived and angered people in the North and people in the South. |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | Created two territories: Kansas and Nebraska. |
| Sumner Brooks Incident | Representative Preston Brooks, from the South, attacked Senator Charles Sumner, from the North, on the Senate floor over an anti-slavery speech given by Senator Sumner. |
| Dred Scott v. Sandford | The Supreme Court ruling that said slaves were property and had no rights in court. |
| Abraham Lincoln | Republican who was elected President of the United States in the election of 1860. |
| Wade-Davis Bill | Stated that Congress, not the President, was responsible for Reconstruction. |
| Republican | One of the two main political parties in the United States, Abraham Lincoln was a member of this party. |
| Reconstruction Act of 1867 | Divided former Confederacy into five military districts, required elections in which black males could vote. |
| Reconstruction | Political plan to bring the United States back together after the Civil War. |
| Lincoln's Plan for Reconstruction | Would pardon Confederate states if 10% promised loyalty and would allow Confederate officers to run for political positions after they promised loyalty. |
| Ku Klux Klan | Formed to keep blacks from being equal politically, socially, and economically through the use of violence. |
| Johnson's Plan for Reconstruction | Majority of people had to promise loyalty, did not want Confederate officers to come back into Union. |
| Jim Crow Laws | Established segregation to keep the races apart. |
| Grandfather Clause | Blacks could only vote if their grandfather was a free black and not a slave. |
| Freedmen's Bureau | Provided schools to educate blacks and tried to help blacks find jobs. |
| Democrat | One of the two main political parties in the United States, Andrew Johnson was a member of this party. |
| Congress' Plan for Reconstruction | Majority of people had to promise loyalty, did not want Confederate officers running for political positions, military districts would be set up in the South. |
| Confederacy | The southern states who seceded from the Union in February 1861 and formed the Confederate States of America. |
| Civil Rights Act of 1866 | Established citizenship for black males and guaranteed them equal rights. |
| Black Codes | Established to deny blacks rights, like voting. |
| Andrew Johnson | Democratic Vice President when Abraham Lincoln was President, became President when President Lincoln was assassinated. |
| Abraham Lincoln | A republican, elected as President of the United States in the election of 1860. |
| Fifteenth Amendment | Established the right to vote to all male citizens, including black males, regardless of race or previous condition of servitude. |
| Fourteenth Amendment | Established the right to vote to all male citizens, including black males, regardless of race or previous condition of servitude. |
| Confederate | A word used to describe anything associated with the Southern States making up the Confederacy, for example, "The Confederate Army" or "a Confederate soldier". |
| Political | Affairs of the government and elected officials. |
| Social | How people relate to each other. |
| Economic | How money or land is used. |
| Pardon | To forgive. |
| Loyal | Faithful. |
| Compassion | Caring and understanding about others' suffering. |
| Veto | To refuse to sign a law. |
| Amendments | Changes to the Constitution. |
| Impeachment | The process of bringing formal charges against the President. |
| Assassinate | To kill suddenly or secretively. |
| Equal Protection | Guarantee that all citizens be treated the same. |
| Equal Rights | The same privileges regardless of differences, like race. |
| Preserve | To save or make lasting, to keep from being destroyed. |
| Due Process | Fair legal procedures, such as fair trials and trials by jury. |
| Citizenship | Having the rights and privileges of a member of a country. |
| Acquitted | Not convicted; found not guilty. |
| Naturalize | To grant full citizenship. |
| Servitude | The condition of being a slave. |
| Abolish | To get rid of. |
| Loot | To take or steal items or goods. |
| Plantation | Large farm on which crops are tended by workers. |
| Poll Taxes | Money that blacks had to pay in order to vote. |
| Resent | To feel angry about something because a person thinks it is unfair. |
| Segregation | The separation of groups, like keeping groups of people separate because their races are different. |
| Sharecropping | Landowners provided land, tools, and seeds to former slaves and poor whites who planted, tended, and harvested crops. After the harvest, landowners kept 2/3 of the crop and workers kept 1/3 of the crop. |
| Tenant Farming | Landowners rented land to former slaves and poor whites who planted, tended, and harvested crops to pay off rent and debts. |
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