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Unit 3 Vocab

HIST-1301

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President from 1861-1865; won by 39%; later assassinated and Presidency was passed to Andrew Johnson. Abraham Lincoln
Author from American Renaissance; wrote essays, fiction, and most notably, poetry. Took inspiration from Oriental tales. Edgar Allen Poe
Declared all slaves as free; used as a tool by Lincoln to persuade Britain and Abolitionists to side with him rather than the confederacy. Emancipation Proclamation
1870; blanket prohibition against denying the right to vote based upon race. Did not allow women to vote. 15th Amendment
1866; created federal safeguards for individual rights and prevented states from infringing upon them. 14th Amendment
Fiction author from American Renaissance. Wrote Moby Dick. Literature reflected universal themes and his works offer insight to mid 19th century America. Herman Melville
Former congressman who became the president of the Confederacy. Jefferson Davis
Evangelical abolitionist from the east; killed a pro-slavery family and abandoned pacifism. Represented frustration with the slow rate of change. John Brown
Carolina Senator and former vice president; argued in favor of slavery. John C. Calhoun
Constitutional theory that states can invalidate federal laws or judicial decisions they deem unconstitutional. Nullification
Coined by Stephen Douglas; method he used to resolve conflict over slavery in the Kansas territory. Popular Sovereignty
Chief Justice of case where a black man was enslaved in free territory he ruled that black men had no rights white people had to respect and that black people couldn’t be citizens. Widely considered one of the worst decisions made in court. Roger B. Taney
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