Antebellum Period
An idea that allows territories and states to decide whether or not to allow slavery.
Popular Sovereignty
What was the name of the trail system in which salves would escape to the North?
Underground Railroad
System in which landowners gave farm workers land, seed, and tools in return for part of the crops they raised.
Sharecropping
A society's movement of population and resources from farm production to manufacturing production is called what?
Industrialization
What is the process by which immigrants or other newcomers acquire the attitudes, behaviors, and cultural patterns of the society around them called?
Assimilation
An agreement made by Congress in 1820 under which Missouri was admitted as a slave state and Maine was admitted as a free state.
Missouri Compromise
What was the battle where Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant?
The enforced separation of different racial groups in a country, community, or establishment is called?
Segregation
What word means the right to vote?
Suffrage
The machine invented by Eli Whitney that cleaned cotton much faster and more efficiently than human workers.
Cotton Gin
A person who supported abolition, or the ending of slavery?
Abolitionist
Who led hundreds of slaves in the underground railroad?
Harriet Tubman
The Supreme Court case that stated laws that separated the races did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment as long as the facilities available to both races were roughly equal.
Plessy v. Ferguson
When a company controls productions and sales of a particular product or service it is a...
Monopoly
What is a person that settles in a new country called?
Immigration
Raid on a Federal arsenal led by John Brown.
Raid on Harper's Ferry
The freeing of enslaved African Americans?
Emancipation
What amendment outlawed slavery in the United States?
13th Amendment
The theory that economies work best when there is little involvement from the government is called what?
Laissez Faire
He became president after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated
Andrew Johnson
Time when people moved out to Kansas Territory and killed each other over popular sovereignty vote on slavery.
Bleeding Kansas
Deadliest battle of the Civil War, lasted three days and took place in Pennsylvania.
Battle of Gettysburg
Which group formed in 1866 that wanted to restore Democratic control of the South and to keep former slaves powerless?
Ku Klux Klan
He invented the first lightbulb, record player, and movie projector.
Thomas Edison
What amendment gave all men the right to vote, regardless of race?
15th Amendment