People
Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Civil War
Lincoln
fixed tax imposed on every person as a requirement for boting
poll tax
laws passed in southern states after the civil war to control the actions and limit the rights of former slaves
Black Codes or Jim Crow laws
S.C. decision which ruled the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional
What is Dred Scott
spark of the Civil War
Ft. Sumter
invented the cotton gin
Eli Whitney
president impeached in 1867
Andrew Johnson
northern who came to the south during reconstruction to work or take advantage of the South
carpetbaagger
law authorized federal commission to try runaway blacks
Fugitive Slave law
1831 S.C. decision ruled that the Cherokees were not a foreing nation with the right to sue in a federal court
Cherokee Nation vs. Georgia
first state to secede
South Carolina
publisher of the "LIberator'
William Lloyd Garrison
president associated with the Era of Good STEALING
Grant
southerners who cooperated with the northern authority
scalawag
import tax detested by the south passed in 1828
Tariff of Abominations
the Court ruled in 1832 later that the Cherokee Nation was a separate political entity that could not be regulated by the state, and that only the federal government had authority to regulate the use of Indian land.
Worcester vs. Georgia
combatants in the Senate in 1856 where one was caned
Sumner Brooks affair (Butler)
Known as the Great Compromiser
Henry Clay
elected on the promise to end Reconstruction by withdrawing troops from the South
Hayes
people would decide whether a state or territory would be free ro slave
popular sovereignty
California admitted as a free state
Compromise of 1850
neither Congress nor the President had the power to create military courts to try civilians 1866
Exparte Milligan
Two states admitted to the Union in 1820
Missouri and Maine
ran against Lincoln for the Senate in 1858
Stephen Douglas
president of the Coinfederacy
Jefferson Davis
Congressional members of the Southern States were mainly of the Democratic party
Solid Democratic South
law used to impeach the 17th president
Tenure of Office Act
In the debate between Lincoln and Douglas, Douglas pointed out that slavery, while legal in all territories, could not exist in northern areas. or 'Slavery cannot exist a day or an hour anywhere, unless it is supported by local police regulations." 1858
Freeport Doctrine 1858
(AP) 1846 resolution to prohibit slavery in any territory taken from Mexico
Wilmot Provisio