| A | B |
|---|
| John C. Calhoun | Senator from SC; proposed the idea of "nullification" |
| Daniel Webster | Senator from Mass.; for a strong Federal Union |
| William Lloyd Garrison | radical white abolitionist; established "The Liberator" |
| Frederick Douglass | escaped slavery; began antislavery newspaper "The North Star" |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | author of UNLCE TOM'S CABIN |
| Henry Clay | initiated Missouri Compromise in 1820; offered Compromise of 1850 |
| carpetbagger | a Northerner who moved to the South after the Civil War |
| abolition | the ending of legal slavery |
| emancipation | the freeing of slaves |
| Compromise of 1850 | series of Congressional meaures; CA admitted as free state & Fugitive Slave Act passed |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | best selling novel that portrayed slavery as a great moral evil` |
| Fugitive Slave Act | part of Compromise of 1850, ensured that escaped slaves would be returned into bondage |
| Underground Railroad | system of routes along which runaway slaves were helped to escape to a safe area |
| popular sovereignty | principle that the residents of a territory can decide whether to admit slavery |
| secession | the formal withdrawal of a state of the Union |
| Missouri Compromise of 1820 | series of laws to maintain the balance of power between slave states and free states |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Civil War hero, president from 1869-1877 |
| Andrew Johnson | succeeded Abraham Lincoln as president, was impeached |
| Rutherford B. Hayes | contested election, won presidency by stricking deal to remove troops from South |
| Harriet Tubman | famous conductor on the Underground Railroad |
| John Brown | radical abolitionist, lead raids in "Bloody Kansas" |
| nullification | the right of a state to declare an act of Congress unconstitutional |
| Lincoln's Plan for Reconstruction | lenient plan to allow for confederate states to re-enter the Union |
| reconstruction | period of rebuilding the South after the Civil War |
| 13th Amendment | freed the slaves |
| radical republican | members of Congress who wanted to punish the South |
| Andrew Jackson | hero in battle of New Orleans, elected president for two-terms |
| 14th Amendment | guarantee of civil rights to all citizens |
| 15th Amendment | voting rights for former slaves (men) |
| Black Codes | laws passed to restrict former slaves new freedom |
| sharecropping | system where farm owners gave workers land, seed, tools in return for part of profit |
| Ku Klux Klan | anti-black terrorist group begun after Civil War |
| tenant farming | system where farmers rent farmland for cash |
| poll tax | payment in order to vote |
