Vocabulary
Popular
Sovereignty
States’ Rights
Missouri
Compromise
1850
Compromise
Dred Scott
Decision
Civil War and Reconstruction Vocabulary / Concept
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 People have the power and
make decisions by voting.
 Let people decide whether
or not to allow slavery in
the territories
 Equal rights of states
 _______th Amendment
 the rights and powers
held by individual US
states rather than by the
federal government.
 an agreement passed in
1820 between the proslavery and anti-slavery
factions.
 It prohibited slavery in the
former Louisiana Territory
north of parallel 36°30’
north except within the
boundaries of the
proposed state of
Missouri.
Henry Clay’s Compromise
 California was admitted as
a free state.
 The slave trade was
abolished in the District of
Columbia
 The Territory of New
Mexico and the Territory
of Utah – popular
sovereignty.
 The Fugitive Slave Act
was passed
 Texas gave up much of
the western land
 Ruling by the U.S.
Supreme Court that people
of African descent brought
into the United States and
held as slaves were not
protected by the
Constitution and could
never be U.S. citizens
 Created the territories of
Kansas and Nebraska,
allowed settlers in those
Kansasterritories to determine if
Nebraska Act
they would allow slavery
within their boundaries
and to settle there
 Stephen A. Douglas
 Bleeding Kansas was a
proxy war between
Bleeding
Northerners and
Kansas
Southerners over the issue
of slavery in the United
States
 A revolutionary
abolitionist
 He led the Pottawatomie
Massacre during which
Abolitionists /
five men were killed in
John Brown
1856 in Bleeding Kansas
and made his name in the
unsuccessful raid at
Harpers Ferry in 1859
 A series of seven debates
between Abraham
Lincoln, the Republican
candidate and the
incumbent Senator
Lincoln Douglas
Stephen Douglas, the
Debate
Democratic Party
candidate.
 The main issue discussed
in all seven debates was
slavery.
 A steam-propelled
warship in the early part
of the second half of the
19th century, protected by
Ironclads
iron or steel armor plates
 Give two examples
Emancipation
Proclamation
 An executive order issued
by United States President
Abraham Lincoln on
January 1, 1863, during
the American Civil War
using his war powers.
 Period 1865-1877
following the Civil War
Reconstruction
 North occupies the South
 Officially abolished and
Thirteenth
continues to prohibit
Amendment
slavery and involuntary
servitude, except as
punishment for a crime
 Its Citizenship Clause
provides a broad
definition of citizenship
Fourteenth
 Its Equal Protection
Amendment
Clause requires each state
to provide equal
protection under the law to
all people within its
jurisdiction.
 Prohibits each government
in the United States from
denying a citizen the right
Fifteenth
to vote based on the that
Amendment
citizen’s “race, color, or
previous condition of
servitude” (i.e., slavery).
 State and local laws in the
United States enacted
between 1876 and 1965.
They mandated de jure
Jim Crow Laws
racial segregation in all
public facilities with al
supposedly “separate but
equal” status for black
Americans.
 Organizations in the
United States, which have
advocated extremist
reactionary currents such
Ku Klux Klan
as white supremacy, white
nationalism, and antiimmigration, historically
expressed through
terrorism.
 Refers to an informal,
unwritten deal that settled
that disputed 1876 U.S.
Compromise of
Presidential election and
1877
ended Congressional
(“Radical”)
Reconstruction.
Gettysburg
Address
Appomattox
 Speech by Abraham
Lincoln
 Dedication of the
Soldiers’ National
Cemetery in Gettysburg,
Pennsylvania after the
Union armies defeated
those of the Confederacy
at the Battle of
Gettysburg.
 Fought on the morning of
April 9, 1865, was the
final engagement of
Confederate Sates Army
General Robert E. Lee’s
Army of Northern
Virginia before it
surrendered to the Union
Army under Ulysses S.
Grant