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History vocabulary 1
Question | Answer |
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Tariff | A tax on imported goods. |
Section | Between the North and South. |
Missouri Compromise | prohibited slavery in the louisiana area. |
Compromise of 1850 | Reduced sectional conflict. |
Fugitive Slave Act | Any runaway slaves were to be sent back to their masters. |
Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 | Created the areas of Kansas and Nebraska. |
Popular sovereignty | When the state decides whether or not to have slaves. |
Nullify | When the state rejects a law. |
Turner's Rebellion | A slave rebellion that took place in southampton county. VA |
Abolitionist Movement | A movement to end slavery. |
Seneca Falls Decleration | The Declaration for women's rights |
Suffrage | Women's right to vote. |
Dred Scott v. Sanford | Court decided that Scott was a free man. |
Fort Sumter | Where the first shot of the Civil war was shot. |
Emancipation Proclamation | To abolish slavery. |
Gettysburg Address | Abraham Lincoln's best american history speeches. |
Reconstruction | Period after the Civil War |
Radical Republicans | People opposed by Abraham Lincoln before the civil war and after the reconstruction. |
13th Amendment | Abolished Slavery |
14th Amendment | Grants citizenship to anyone born in the U.S. |
15th Amendment | Gave the right to vote to any race. |
Compromise 1877 | An informal unwritten deal that settled the dispute from the 1876 election. |
Transcontinental Railroad | The railroad going across the continent. |
Confederate States of America | The confederate States where started by North Carolina after the seceded from the union |