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AP US History Period 5 (1844-1877) Flashcards

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6744595304popular sovereigntyA belief that ultimate power resides in the people.0
6744595305Kansas Nebraska ActGave the people in those territories the right to chose to be a free or slave states.1
6744595306Free "Soiler"People who opposed expansion of slavery into western territories2
6744595307Republican Partyanti-slavery Whigs and Democrats, Free "Soilers" and reformers formed a party in order to keep slavery out of the territories3
6744595308secessionFormal withdrawal of states or regions from a nation4
6744595309Dred Scott DecisionThe U.S. Supreme Court decided a Missouri slave couldn't sue in federal court because he was property, not a citizen.5
6744595310SectionalismLoyalty to a region6
6744595311John Brown's RaidBegan as a take over of arsenal in Harper's Ferry, Virginia, in hopes of starting a slave rebellion.7
6744595312Appomattox CourthouseWhere Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant in 1865, ending the Civil War8
6744595313William Tecumseh ShermanUnion General who destroyed South during "march to the sea" from Atlanta to Savannah, example of total war9
6744595314habeas corpusConstitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment10
6744595315Freedmen's BureauOrganization run by the army to care for and protect southern Blacks after the Civil War11
6744595316sharecropperA person who works fields rented from a landowner and pays the rent and repays loans by turning over to the landowner a share of the crops.12

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