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    Vocab.

    Definition
    Compromise of 1850
    A set of laws, passed in the
    midst of fierce wrangling
    between groups favoring
    slavery and groups opposing
    it, that attempted to give
    something to both sides
    Fugitive Slave Act
    A law passed as part of the
    Compromise of 1850, which
    provided southern
    slaveholders with legal
    weapons to capture slaves
    who had escaped to the free
    states
    Uncle Toms Cabin
    an antislavery novel (1852)
    by Harriet Beecher Stowe
    Popular Sovereignty
    the doctrine that sovereign
    power is vested in the people
    and that those chosen to
    govern
    Kansas-Nebraska Act
    the act of Congress in 1854
    annulling the Missouri
    Compromise, providing for
    the organization of the
    territories of Kansas and
    Nebraska, and permitting
    these territories self-
    determination on the
    question of slavery
    Free-soilers
    a member of the Free Soil
    party or a supporter of its
    principles


    Vocab. Definition
    Republican Party
    one of the two major political
    parties in the U.S.
    Bleeding Kansas
    the term used to described
    the period of violence during
    the settling of the Kansas
    territory
    Guerrilla Warfare
    the use of hit-and-run tactics
    by small, mobile groups of
    irregular forces operating in
    territory controlled by a
    hostile, regular force
    Dred Scott Decision
    A controversial ruling made
    by the Supreme Court in
    1857, shortly before the
    outbreak of the Civil War: a
    slave, sought to be declared
    a free man on the basis that
    he had lived for a time in a
    free territory with his
    master
    Lecompton Constitution
    the second of four proposed
    constitutions for the state of
    Kansas
    Lincoln-Douglas Debates
    a series of seven debates
    between Abraham Lincoln,
    the Republican candidate for
    the Senate in Illinois, and
    Senator Stephen Douglas,
    the Democratic Party
    candidate


    Vocab. Definition
    Secede
    withdraw formally from
    membership in a federal
    union, an alliance, or a
    political or religious
    organization
    Confederate States of America
    The group of 11 Southern
    states that seceded from the
    United States in 186061.
    Crittenden Compromise
    a series of constitutional
    amendments proposed in
    Congress in 1860 to serve as
    a compromise between
    proslavery and antislavery
    factions
    Cotton Diplomacy
    refers to the diplomatic
    methods employed by the
    Confederacy during the
    American Civil War
    Embargo
    an order of a government
    prohibiting the movement of
    merchant ships into or out of
    its ports
    Infantry
    Soldiers or military units that
    fight on foot, in modern
    times typically with rifles,
    machine guns, grenades,
    mortars, etc., as weapons.
    Cavalry
    the part of a military force
    composed of troops that
    serve on horseback


    Vocab. Definition
    Ironclads
    covered or cased with iron
    plates, as a ship for naval
    warfare; armor-plated
    Emancipation
    The act to free from
    restraint, influence, or the
    like
    13th Amendment
    an amendment to the U.S.
    Constitution, ratified in 1865,
    abolishing slavery
    Black Codes
    any code of law that defined
    and especially limited the
    rights of former slaves after
    the Civil War
    Ku Klux Klan
    a secret organization in the
    southern U.S., active for
    several years after the Civil
    War, which aimed to
    suppress the newly acquired
    powers of blacks
    Civil Rights Act
    A federal law that authorized
    federal action against
    segregation in public
    accommodations,
    14th Amendment
    an amendment to the U.S.
    Constitution, ratified in 1868,
    defining national citizenship
    and forbidding the states to
    restrict the basic rights of
    citizens or other persons


    Vocab. Definition
    Reconstruction Acts
    U.S. History. the acts of
    Congress during the period
    from 1865 to 1877 providing
    for the reorganization of the
    former Confederate states
    15th Amendment
    An amendment to the U.S.
    Constitution, ratified in 1870,
    prohibiting the restriction of
    voting rights on account of
    race, color, or previous
    condition of servitude.

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