Unit #8 Civil War and Reconstruction Vocabulary Flashcards

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Abolition

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The movement to stop slavery

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Underground Railroad

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A series of escape routes used by slaves escaping the South

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Suffrage

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The right to vote

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Wilmot Proviso

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1846 proposal that wanted to outlaw slavery in any territory gained from the War with Mexico

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Temperance Movement

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Organized effort to encourage moderation in the consumption of intoxicating liquors or press for complete abstinence

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Compromise of 1850

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Law to settle disagreement between free states and slave states when California wanted to become a state

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Fugitive Slave Act

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Law meant to help slaveholders recapture runaway slaves

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Uncle Tom's Cabin

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Novel published by Harriet Beecher Stowe that showed slavery as brutal and immoral

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Kansas-Nebraska Act

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1854 law that established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and gave their residents the right to decide by popular sovereignty to allow slavery

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Dred Scott v Sandford

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1856 Supreme Court case in which a slave sued for his freedom and lost