Chapter Vocabulary- Antebellum LA

This party favored the interests of banks and businesses. The believed internal improvements would greatly benefit the country.

• American Party

• Democrat Party

• Whigs

• Republicans

This party believed in a smaller government structure that benefited the “Common man”. They also believed that every free white man should be able to vote.

• American Party

• Democrat Party

• Whigs

• Republicans

This party was known to be hostile to immigrants. They ran city politics in New Orleans from 1854- 1861 through intimidation and force.

• American Party

• Democrat Party

• Whigs

• Republicans

He served as a general in the Mexican-American war. He eventually became the 12th President of the United States. The first to be a citizen of Louisiana.

• Andrew Jackson

• James Polk

• Thomas Jefferson

• Zachary Taylor

7th President of the United States. He was praised as a hero after the battle of New Orleans. He believed in standing up for the “Common man”

• Andrew Jackson

• James Polk

• Thomas Jefferson

• Zachary Taylor

The period of time “before the war”; the time in the 1800’s before the Civil War began in 1861.

• Cerebellum

• Reconstruction

• Jim Crow

• Antebellum

The granting of voting privileges to all free white men who had reached the age of twenty-one.

• Internal Improvements

• Universal Manhood Suffrage

• Head and master statutes

• Franchise

Laws under which, when a women married, her husband became her head and master, as her father had been before the marriage.

• Internal Improvements

• Universal Manhood Suffrage

• Head and master statutes

• Franchise

The “bones” of a country, things like roads, bridges, hospitals, canals, etc.

• Internal Improvements

• Universal Manhood Suffrage

• Head and master statutes

• Franchise

The right to vote (can also use the word disenfranchised-to be deprived of the right to vote).

• Internal Improvements

• Universal Manhood Suffrage

• Head and master statutes

• Franchise