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Module 1 DBA vocab
us history honors DBA
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Anaconda plan | The unions civil war strategy wanted to block southern ports and control the Mississippi river |
| Bleeding Kansas | Name given to Kansas territory as pro slavery and anti slavery groups fought to decide the territory's future |
| Buffalo soldiers | Name given to African American soldiers by Native Americans |
| Compromise of 1850 | Allowed California to become a state, settled border disputes between Texas and New Mexico, created fugitive slave act |
| Dred Scott case | Case in which slave sued for his freedom because he had lived in a free territory, Supreme courts decides the slaves were not citizens and could not sue. |
| Emancipation | Freeing those held captives refers to the freeing of the slaves |
| Emancipation Proclamation | Issued by Lincoln in 1863 to declare that ''All persons held as slaves'' within the rebellious states shall be set free. |
| Freeport Doctrine | Idea that people should decide whether or not slavery should be allows by the laws hey created on a local level |
| Fugitive Slave act | Laws passed as part of the compromise of 1850 required all citizens to aid in the return of runaway slaves |
| Kansas Nebraska Act | 1854 law that established Kansas and Nebraska as territories and that slavery would be decided there upon popular sovereignty |
| Missouri Compromise | An agreement that dictated that any state lying south of 36 30 north latitude would be open to slavery and that any state above that line would be considered free |
| Nullification Theory | Theory that states could cancel any federal legislation the states deemed unconstitutional |
| Ostend manifesto | Document that claims the US had the right to buy or seize Cuba from Spain |
| Popular sovereignty | That idea that residents of an area could vote to decide an issue |
| Seceded | To withdraw from an organization, state, or alliance |
| State's rights | power granted to state governments rather than federal government |
| Tariffs | Taxes placed on imported goods to protect domestic industries |
| 13th amendment | Banned slavery freed the slaves |
| 14th amendment | Declared African Americans as citizens gave them citizenships |
| 15th amendment | Gave African American men that right to vote |
| Black codes | laws made in 1865 to prevent African Americans from exercising their civil rights |
| Confederacy | The states that fought against the union in the civil war |
| Confederate | Person who supported the Southern Confederacy |
| Electoral vote | How the president is selected by votes casted by electoral college members |
| Freedman | Former slave who is now free |
| Override | To offset a veto done by the president with a two-thirds vote |
| Pocket veto | When the president refuses to sign a bill within 10 days of its passage causes bill to be rejected |
| Radical Republicans | Member of congress who wanted to end slavery and guarantee the equal rights of African Americans |
| Ratification | Confirmation |
| Suffrage | right to vote |
| Veto | The power of the US president to reject a law passed by congress |
| Carpetbagger | Term used by the south to describe Northerner who came to the South after Civil War to seek political/economic gain |
| Circumvent | To avoid restrictions without breaking them |
| Debt peonage | A system in which Laborers are forced to remain under control of a business owner until thier debts are paid |
| Disenfranchise | To take away a persons or groups right |
| Freedman bureau | Agency made to help freedman find work health care and education |
| Labor contract | A formal agreement about work to be performed |
| Reconstruction Amendment | Name given to the 13th 14th and 15th amendments referred to Civil War amendment |
| Scalawag | South term used for a white Southerner who supported the Republican party or abolition |
| Sharecropping | Allowed workers to live on a section of a property in exchange for working on the land and giving part of harvest to landowner |
| Tenant farming | Similar to sharecropping part of the rent is paid in cash with money earned from selling crops |
| Grandfather clause | Allowed poor whites to vote even if they couldn't pay poll tax/Stopped African Americans from voting as their grandfathers couldn't |
| Great Migration | Mass movement of African Americans from the south to the north for jobs in the early 1990s |
| Jim crow laws | Discriminatory laws passed in mainly Southern states to deny them of equal economic, political, and social treatment |
| KKK | Hate group wanted to restore white supremacy in the south used terror to do this |
| Literacy test | Reading comprehension test used to prevent African Americans voters from voting. |
| Nadir | Lowest point used to describe the relations between white and African Americans between 1877 and 1920 |
| Plessy v Ferguson | Decision that ruled separate but equal facilities for blacks and whites did not violate the equal protection clause |
| Poll taxes | Annual tax paid by those who want to vote |
| Political/social | Political- relates to government how something is run Social- relates to the society and how we interact |
| Assimilate | To become part of a group by adopting their ways |
| Battle of little big horn | Battle between Lakota Sioux and the 7th Cavalry ended with destruction of Custer's troops happened in 1876 |
| Battle of wounded knee | The slaughter of over 150 inhabitants of a winter camp in 1864 |
| Dawes act | Laws designed to assimilate Native Americans by dividing up tribal lands and giving them to individuals who would then become farmers |
| Homestead act of 1862 | Opened up western lands by giving individual settlers 160 acres if they lived on land for a period of time and make minimal improvements |
| Push pull factors | Drive people from their homes or pulls them towards a new area |
| Reservation | Land reserved by U.S government for Native Americans |
| Sand creek massacre | A massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho people by the U.S. Army in the American Indian Wars |
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