This political event allows all the members of a po9litical part, rather than just those attending a nominating convention, to vote for the party's nominees.
What is a Direct Primary?
100
When a president ignores a bill submitted by congress for his approval and signatiure
What is a Pocket veto?
100
A term used to mean that the people would be able to vote on wheather to have slavery or not.
What is popular sovereignty?
100
The term that was used to refer the period before the Civil War.
What is the Antebellum period?
100
What is a state that did not permit slavery called?
What is a free state
200
Giving the vote back to poor whites who were unable to pay the poll tax or read and write was made possible through this old past law.
What is the Grandfather clause?
200
The former slaves were called?
What is freedmen?
200
A senator proposed a constitutuional amendment that would create two presidents, one from the South and one from the North.
What is John C. Calhoun
200
What term describes the situation when peopkle are denied their rights or are treated unfairly?
What is Discrimination
200
An agreement reached in 1820 in which a boundary line was drawn westward, northor which slavery would not be permitted.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
300
Members of the People's party who called for changes in government to help the small farmer.
What is Populists?
300
White southerners who had not participated in the Confederacy
What is a scalawag?
300
He was elected presidency of confederacy.
What is Jefferson Davis?
300
What were those who wanted to end slavery and worked hard to do so were called.
What is Abolitionists?
300
A document outlining the priciples that a political party supports
What is a platform?
400
A legal jedgment that a person cannot pay his or her debts.
What is a Bankruptcy?
400
The group that some white southerners called "saviors of the Sunny South" white supremacy
What is the KKK.?
400
Who is the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin?
What is Harriet Beecher Stowe
400
During the reform period, most stataes removed debtors from the jails and moved the mentally ill to other facilities called?
What is asylums?
400
A practice of appointing people to public office based on personal loyalty and party support.
What is the spoils system?
500
The name given to negotiations between union officials and manaagement officials to settle issues.
What is collective bargaining?
500
What word referred to the rebuilding of the South and the reunification of the country
What is Reconstruction?
500
During this pre Civil War period,who were the people called who favored Secession.
What is Fire Eaters
500
What was the name given to those who cleared land, planted crops, and received a share of the harvested crop even though they did not own the land.