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GHSGT Review - US History to 1865
Road to US Civil War Vocabulary Review for GHSGT
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History
11th Grade
05/18/2011

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William Lloyd Garrison
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a writer and editor, was an important white abolitionist
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Frederick Douglass
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a former slave who escaped, later published autobiographies and his own antislavery newspaper.
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Missouri Compromise of 1820
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an agreement that kept the balance of slave and free states
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Nullification Crisis
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led by South Carolina, this resulted from the South's attempt to nullify a tax on manufactured goods
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John C. Calhoun
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Vice-President, argued for nullification
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Sectionalism
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loyalty to a part rather than the whole of the United States
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states' rights
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the idea that states have certain rights and political powers separate from those held by the federal government
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Mexican-American War
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conflict which resulted in the US gain of the Southwest in the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hildago
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Wilmot Proviso
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proposal that states formed out of the former Mexican lands would be free, not slave, not passed.
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Compromise of 1850
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series of 5 laws that dealt with issues of slavery including passing a harsher Fugitive Slave law
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Fugitive Slave law
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All citizens would be required to apprehend runaway slaves and return them to their owners.
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Nullify
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to disregard, do away with
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