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UNIT 3
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23
Social Studies
11th Grade
12/18/2011

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Term
Antebellum America:
Definition
the time before the war
Term
Sectionalism:
Definition
the north and the south were acting like separate nations
Term
Arguments over federalism:
Definition
how much power should the individual states have?
Term
Attempts at a legislative solution to the slavery issue:
Definition
trying to figure out which states would be free
Term
Missouri compromise:
Definition
resulted in the drawing of mason Dixon line
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Fugitive slave act:
Definition
Saying slaves living in the north could be brought back down to the north
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Kansas Nebraska act:
Definition
allowed them to choose whether they would be slaves or free
Term
Abolition:
Definition
wanting to end slavery
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Fredrick Douglass:
Definition
the person running against Lincoln
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Uncle Tom’s cabin:
Definition
By Harriet Beacher Stowe, book about slavery that helped start the war
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Secession:
Definition
leaving the country
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Emancipation Proclamation:
Definition
freed the slaves
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Reconstruction:
Definition
the time after the civil war
Term
13th, 14th, and 15th amendments:
Definition
gave citizenship and rights to slaves
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Sharecropping:
Definition
sharing land and giving away a portion of your crops
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Debt Peonage:
Definition
making someone work for you until their debt is mostly paid
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De Jure segregation:
Definition
segregation that is a law
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De facto segregation:
Definition
segregation that just happens
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Plessy vs. Ferguson:
Definition
Supreme Court decisions saying separate but equal
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Civil rights movement:
Definition
black people trying to get their rights
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Desegregation:
Definition
integrating public places
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Education:
Definition
blacks and whites started going to the same school
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Voting rights:
Definition
poll taxes and literacy tests became illegal
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