Unit 3 US History
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- Abolitionist
- People who were against slavery and wanted slaves to be free.
- Jim Crow laws
- Laws enacted by southern states and local governments to separate the whites and blacks in public and private facilities.
- Harriet Tubman
- A famous conductor of the underground railroad; she risked her life to free other slaves.
- Popular sovereignty
- Where the people got to vote to decide an issue for the territory (ex. slavery).
- Civil Rights Act of 1866
- The first major legislation to be enacted over a presidential veto; the 14th amendment provided a constitutional basis for the act.
- Secession
- To formally withdraw from the Union.
- Anaconda
- The Unions 3-part plan that blockaded the southern parts, split the confederacy in 2 by the Mississippi River and captured the Confederate Capitol.
- Missouri Compromise
- Where Maine ws admitted as a free state and Missouri as a slave state to keep the senate balanced.
- John Brown
- A marter who lead the battle at Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, to give slaves weapons to escape.
- Impeachment
- To formally charge an official with misconduct in office; the House of Representatives has the sole power to impeach federal officials.
- Freedman's Bureau
- A federal agency set up to help former slaves and poor whites after the Civil War.
- Radical Republicans
- Favored a harsher plan (than Lincoln's) for readmitting the confederate states to the Union once the war was over.
- Underground Railroad
- A network of people who risked their lives to help free slaves from the south to the north.
- Sherman's "March to the Sea"
- Started in Atlanta, GA and went to Savanah, GA buring houses and towns all the way.
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- A law enacted in 184 that established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and gave their residents the right to decide wheather to allow slavery wwhich went against the Missouri compromise (which said that the North could not have slaves).
- Uncle Tom's Cabin
- A book written that had an impact on the people, caused a lot of controversy, made the Northerners mad because of the treatment of the slaves and made the Southerners mad because it made them look bad.