| A | B |
|---|
| popular sovereignty | the people decide - like whether or not to allow slavery |
| fugitive slave act | runaway slaves must returned to their owners |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | book by Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| Dred Scott | slave that sued (and lost) for his freedom |
| bleeding Kansas | conflict between pro-slavery and anti-slavery people in the west over popular soveriegnty |
| Abraham Lincoln | president when Civil War begins |
| Andrew Johnson | president when Reconstrution begins |
| 13th amendment | ends slavery |
| 14th amendment | citizenship for everyone born in U.S. and equal protection under the law |
| 15th amendment | voting rights cannot be denied based on race |
| conscription | draft |
| Emancipation Proclamation | freed slaves in rebellious states as military strategy |
| 10% plan | Lincoln & Johnson's plan for Reconstruction |
| Tenure of Office Act | President can't fire a cabinet member...(or he could get impeached) |
| Reconstruction Acts | creation of military districts in the South to slowly bring southern states back into the union |
| sharecopping | farming done by former slaves for white landowners |
| Rutherford Hayes | He was the President that officially ended Reconstruction |
| Compromise of 1877 | the agreement that pulled the final troops out of the South, ending Reconstruction |
| Jim Crow laws | segregation laws |
| literacy test | take a test in order to register to vote |
| poll tax | pay to vote |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | court case that established segregation as Constitutional |
| Booker T. Washington | former slave, started Tuskegee Institute for African-Americans, believed they should improve themselves educationally and economically within the system |
| WEB DuBois | African-American reformer from Massachusetts, PhD from Harvard, wanted blacks to challenge Jim Crow system and demand rights |
| writ of habeas corpus | Lincoln suspended this right during wartime - meaning he had people held by authorities without being charged |
| secede (secession) | to leave , break away |
| separate but equal | court doctrine that ruled segregation was legal, if facilities were the same for the races |
