6744595304 | popular sovereignty | A belief that ultimate power resides in the people. | 0 | |
6744595305 | Kansas Nebraska Act | Gave the people in those territories the right to chose to be a free or slave states. | 1 | |
6744595306 | Free "Soiler" | People who opposed expansion of slavery into western territories | 2 | |
6744595307 | Republican Party | anti-slavery Whigs and Democrats, Free "Soilers" and reformers formed a party in order to keep slavery out of the territories | 3 | |
6744595308 | secession | Formal withdrawal of states or regions from a nation | 4 | |
6744595309 | Dred Scott Decision | The U.S. Supreme Court decided a Missouri slave couldn't sue in federal court because he was property, not a citizen. | 5 | |
6744595310 | Sectionalism | Loyalty to a region | 6 | |
6744595311 | John Brown's Raid | Began as a take over of arsenal in Harper's Ferry, Virginia, in hopes of starting a slave rebellion. | 7 | |
6744595312 | Appomattox Courthouse | Where Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant in 1865, ending the Civil War | 8 | |
6744595313 | William Tecumseh Sherman | Union General who destroyed South during "march to the sea" from Atlanta to Savannah, example of total war | 9 | |
6744595314 | habeas corpus | Constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment | 10 | |
6744595315 | Freedmen's Bureau | Organization run by the army to care for and protect southern Blacks after the Civil War | 11 | |
6744595316 | sharecropper | A 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 |
AP US History Period 5 (1844-1877) Flashcards
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