Vocab 1
Officially withdrawing from a country
Secession
Rights and powers held by the US States and not the federal government
State's Rights
This device heavily contributed to the number of slaves present in the United States from 1790 - 1850
Cotton Gin
What did the compromise of 1877 do to help with freeing enslaved peoples in the South after the Civil War
Split the South into 5 military districts to ensure the South was following the laws of reconstruction
The climate and soil conditions of the South were much better for farming
Antebellum
a period of American history that rebuilt the American government
Reconstruction
What did the Fugitive Slave law do?
Allowed Southerners to travel North to "reclaim" runaway slaves.
What was the purpose of the Literacy Test in the South during Reconstruction?
To obstruct African Americans and other uneducated peoples from voting
What was the main effect of the Gettysburg Address? Lincoln claimed that our country could not survive while allowing _____________
Slavery
He now supported abolitionism
movement to end slavery and free enslaved people
Abolition
Loyalty of a region over the country as a whole
Sectionalism
Many Southerners argued that the Civil War was not caused by slavery or sectionalism, but this ________ __________
State's Rights
What was the name of the method used in the South to keep African Americans tied to plantations by making them rent and work plantation land?
Sharecropping
The South believed that states should have the right to choose for themselves if they would allow slavery or not
The right to vote
Suffrage
Consent of the people to be governed
Popular sovereignty
Describe the differences of how the North and South made money in the Antebellum Period?
The North was more focused industrialism (factories, manufacturing, railroads, banks)
The South almost only focused on Farming
Lincoln believed that WHAT was most important than ending slavery?
Preservation of the Union
Keeping the US whole
How did the Lincoln Douglas Debates effect the election of 1860?
It ended up splitting the presidential vote causing Lincoln to win
Freeing someone from enslavement
Emancipation
deprived of a right or privilege, especially the right to vote
Disenfranchisement
How did compromises in the US like the Kansas Nebraska Act, the Missouri Compromise, and the Compromise of 1850 effect the issue of slavery
Made sectionalism and the discussion of slavery (abolitionism) worse in the US
What did the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments do?
13th- Banned slavery in the US
14th- All people born in the US are citizens
15th- Allowed of age male citizens to vote in the US
Explain to me the Dred Scott Decision and court case
Scotts "Master" died while on military assignment in the north. Scott claimed that this means he should be free. He lost the court case and was returned to slavery