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A.S
Ch.3-4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Wilmot Proviso | David wilmon, a congreeman, proposed this proviso and it states that any land gained from Mexico as a result of war are closed to slavery. |
| Fee-Soil Party | A party formed by northeners who wanted to prevent the expansion of slavery into the western territories. Martin van Buren was the presidential candidate of this party. He did not win. |
| Compromise of 1850 | californai was now a free state and the popular sovereignty was allowed, The missouri compromise was undone. |
| Popular Sovereignty | Any new territory acquired by mexico can decide if the state is a slave or free state |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | It split the nebraska territory in two. And made one side kansas and the other nebraska. Each side can decide the issue on slavery. |
| Bleeding kansas | Southeners raided and burned and destoy Lawrence,Kansas. Northeners got made John brown, who is anti-slavery, and a few friend killed 5 proslavery settlers southeners got mad. A LOT of violence rated "u" for violence. |
| John Brown & Harper's Ferry | John Brown led a revolt in 1859 Harper Ferry, Virginia. He was hoping that slaves would join but none of them did. He was later wounded in war and hanged. |
| Dred Scott & Sanford | Scott was an Africa American who saved for his freedom. The court was against him. Not only did he lose but the court decided that the congress had no power over the slave issue. And that the missouri compromise was unconstitutional. |
| Abraham Licoln | As a child his mother died of milk posioning. He grow up as a wood-chopper man who lived in a log cabin. He became a lawyer then served one term in the house of representative. He was also a republican who was against slavery. He became president. |
| Jefferson Davis | A mississippi senator who convinced congress to adopt resolutions not allowing federal control over slavery in the territories. |
| John C. Breckinridge | a proslavery vice president. born in kentuky southern democrat. |
| Conferderate States of America | government of 11 Southern states that seceded from the Union in the civil war. |
| Fort Sumter | federal fort located in Charleston, South Carolina, where the first shots of the civil war were fired. |
| Anaconda Plan | northern civil war strategy to starve the south by blockading seaports and controlling the mississippi River. |
| Emancipation Proclamation | decree by President Lincoln that freed enslaved people living in Confederate states still in rebellion. |
| Habeas corpus | constitutional guarantee that no one can be held in prison without charges being filed. |
| Ulysses s. Grant | |
| Battle of Gettysburg | battle in 1863 in whitch confederate troops were prevented from invading the North and whitch resuled in more than fifty-thousand casualties. |
| Gettysburg Address | speech by president Lincoln in which he dedicated a national cemetery at Gettysburg and reaffirmed the ideas for which the Union was fighting. |
| William T. Sherman | |
| Total war | military strategy in which an army attacks not only enemy troops but the economic and civilian resources that support them. |
| Reconstruction | program implemented by the federal government between 1865 and 1877 to repair damage to the south caused by the civil war and restore the southern states to the Union. |
| Freedmen's Bureau | federal agency designed to aid freed slaves and poor white farmers in the south after the Civil war. |
| Andrew Johnson | |
| Thirteenth Amendment | 1865 constitutional amendment that abolished slavery. |
| Radical Republicans | Congressmen who advocated full citizenship rights for African Americans along with a harsh Reconstruction policy toward the south |
| Impeachment | accusation against a public official of wrongdoing in office. |
| Fourteenth Amendment | 1868 constitutional amendment which defined citizenship and guaranteed citizen equal protection under the law. |
| Fifteenth Amendment | 1870 constitution amendment that guaranteed voting rights regardless of race or previous condition of servitude. |
| Ku Klux Klan | organization that promotes hatred and discrimination against specific ethnic and religious groups. |
| De jure segregation | segregation by unwritten custom of tradition. |
| Entrepreneur | person who invents money in a product or business |
| Protective tariff | tax on imported goods making the price high enough to protect dome |
| Laissez faire | |
| Patent | |
| Thomas Edison | |
| Bessemer process | |
| Suspension bridges | |
| Time zone | |
| Mass production | |
| Corporation | |
| Monopoly | |
| Cartel | |
| John D.Rockefeller | |
| Horizontal integration | |
| Trust | |
| Andrew Carnegie | |
| Vertical integration | |
| Social Darwinism | |
| ICC | |
| Sherman Antitrust Act | |
| Sweatshop | |
| Company town | |
| Collective bargaining | |
| Socialism | |
| Knights of Labor | |
| Terrence Powderly | |
| Samuel Gompers | |
| AFL | |
| Haymarket Riot | |
| Homestead strike | |
| Eugene V. Debs | |
| Pullman Strike |
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