Vocab
Black enslaved preacher who led a four day rebellion in Virginia 1831.
Who is Nat Turner?
Military war hero and the 7th President of the United States.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
Election year where Abraham Lincoln won by 108 electoral college votes.
What is the Election of 1860?
President Lincoln was the president of these 20 collective states during the civil war. What was the group called?
What is the Union?
The official ban on trade and other commercial activity with a particular country.
What is an embargo?
The rise of the political democracy and greater participation of ordinary citizens in the political process.
What is Common Man Politics?
This compromise called for the admission of California as a "free state," provided for a territorial government for Utah and New Mexico, established a boundary between Texas and the United States, called for the abolition of slave trade in Washington, DC, and amended the Fugitive Slave Act.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
President Jefferson Davis was the first and ONLY president of this group of states.
What is the Confederate States of America?
The increase in power to the executive branch and increased participation in white non land owners.
What is Jacksonian Democracy?
Antislavery newspaper published by Frederick Douglass, an African American abolitionist.
What is The North Star?
The act of loyalty to one part of your country as opposed to the country as a whole, usually politically or economically.
What is Sectionalism?
This speech declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
She held a convention in Seneca Falls and unveiled the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments, seeking religious, educational and property rights for women.
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
Patented in 1794 this mechanical machine made by this inventor revolutionized the way cotton was mass produced.
Who/what was/is the cotton gin/Eli Whitney?
A government based on consent of the people first used for the states to decide whether territories would enter the Union as free or slave states.
What is popular sovereignty?
A fundamental right in the Constitution that protects against unlawful and indefinite imprisonment
What is Habeas Corpus?