vocabulary 8,9, 10 by JASZY https://padlet.com/jaszy_gold/ash2vnavbmhs Made with no regrets, whatsoever en-us 2016-11-30 03:22:33 UTC 2025-10-01 09:47:52 UTC hello@padlet.com Standard 8 jaszy_gold https://padlet.com/jaszy_gold/ash2vnavbmhs/wish/140707569 Aboltionism
a movement to end slavery, whether formal or informal.

Compromise of 1850  
a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican American War 

Fredrick Douglass
an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman.

John C. Calhoun
 an American statesman and political theorist from South Carolina, and the seventh Vice President of the United States.

Mexican-American War
A war fought between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848. The United States won the war, encouraged by the feelings of many Americans that the country was accomplishing its manifest destiny of expansion

Missouri Compromise 1820
A settlement of a dispute between slave and free states, contained in several laws passed during 1820 

Nat Turner’s Rebellion
a slave who led a failed 1831 slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia

Nullification Crisis
ensued after South Carolina declared that the federal Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional and therefore null and void within the sovereign boundaries of the state.

Sectionalism
is loyalty to the interests of one's own region or section of the country, rather than to the country as a whole

States’ Rights
the rights and powers held by individual US states rather than by the federal government

The Grimke Sisters
Two early and prominent activists for abolition and women's rights,



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an American politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865

Battle for Atlanta
a battle of the Atlanta Campaign fought during the American Civil War on July 22, 1864, just southeast of Atlanta, Georgia
Battle of Gettysburg 
 was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War. 

Dred Scott Decision 
a slave, sought to be declared a free man on the basis that he had lived for a time in a “free” territory with his master.
 
Emancipation Proclamation 
a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863.
 
Fort Sumter 
the first battle of the Civil War began on April 12, 1861
 
Gettysburg Address 
a speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln at the November 19, 1863, dedication of Soldier's National Cemetery, a cemetery for Union soldiers killed at the Battle Of Gettysburg during the American Civil War. 

Habeas Corpus 
 writ requiring a person under arrest to be brought before a judge or into court, especially to secure the person's release unless lawful grounds are shown for their detention.
 
Jefferson Davis 

a Mexican War hero, U.S. senator from Mississippi, U.S. secretary of war and president of the Confederate States of America for the duration of the American Civil War 

John Brown 
 an American abolitionist who believed armed insurrection was the only way to overthrow the institution of slavery in the United States
 
Kansas-Nebraska Act 
passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders.
 
Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address 
At a time when victory over the secessionists in the American Civil War was within days and slavery was near an end, Lincoln did not speak of happiness, but of sadness.
 
Popular Sovereignty 
the people's rule, is the principle that the authority of a state and its government is created and sustained by the consent of its people, through their elected representatives (Rule by the People), who are the source of all political power.
 
Robert E. Lee 
an American general known for commanding the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War from 1862 until his surrender in 1865
 
Siege of Vicksburg 
investing the city and entrapping a Confederate army under Lt. Gen. John Pemberton
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