| A | B |
|---|
| Slave Codes | owners could not mistreat slaves but slaves could not testify in court if they did |
| Cash Crops of South | tobacco,rice,sugar cane |
| Border Ruffians | pro- and anti- slavery clashes in Kansas |
| Arsenal/Harper’s Ferry | raid to get weapons to help slave revolt |
| Fugitive | runaway slaves who Northerners were supossed to help capture |
| Popular Sovereignty | people of an area decide wether or not to have slavery |
| Sectionalism | looking at an issue from your areas viewpoint ( example: Slavery ) |
| Missouri Compromise of 1850 | number of slave and free statatees stays equal |
| Compromise of 1850 | slavery could be decided by popular sovereignty |
| Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 | all citizens must help capture runaway slave |
| Kansas Nebraska Act | popular sovereignty decides slavery issue |
| John Brown/Harper’s Ferry | wanted to start a slave revolt |
| Lincoln’s Election | southerners decide to secede |
| North’s Greatest Resource | industy to make supplies |
| Union Generals | lacking because best generals joined the Confederacy |
| Emancipation Proclamation | freed slaves in those states in rebellion |
| South’s problem as war went on | food, inflation, weapons shortage |
| Why North winning | more soldiers, more factories, more railroads |
| Total War | destroy whatever our army can't consume or use to help in war |
| Grandfather clause | denied right to vote to blacks if couldn't vote before 1865 |
| Black Codes | limited the rights of freedmen |
| Impeach | vote by Congress to bring chares of official wrong doing |
| Carpetbaggers | Northerners who came South after the Civil War |
| Sharecroppers | freedmen and poor whites who rented land on plantatinos for a share of their crop |
| Segregation | separation of blacks and whites ( example: Schools ) |
| Literacy tests | abitlity to read and write in order to vote |
| Poll Tax | fee paid to vote |
| Freedmen | freed slaves after Civil War |
| Conservatives | Democrates who want little change after Civil War |
| Transcontinental Railroad | built by Union Pacific and Central Pacific to link east and west |
| Corral | buffalo hunters used to drive animals into |
| Longhorns | raised by Texans to ship to market |
| Wholesale | the way farmers bought tools and seeds to get a better price |
| Sodbusters | used lightweight |
| Transcontinental RR-problems | cutting through |
