US History Unit 4
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- Andrew Johnson
- 17th President of the United States was elected Vice President and succeeded Lincoln when Lincoln was assassinated; was impeached but acquitted by one vote (1808-1875) (favored the South over the North)
- Dred Scott
- United States slave who sued for liberty after living in a non-slave state;caused the Supreme Court to declare the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional (1795?-1858)
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Issued by Abraham Lincoln on September 22, 1862, it declared that all slaves in the rebellious Confederate states would be free,not the boarder states
- Kansas- Nebraska Act
- A law that allowed the people in kansas and nebraska to decide of slavery would be legal.
- Compromise of 1850
- Series or measures that were intended to settle the disagreements between free states and slave states
- Harriet Tubman
- United States abolitionist born a slave on a plantation in Maryland and became a famous conductor on the Underground Railroad leading other slaves to freedom in the North (1820-1913)
- Compromise of 1877
- Ended Reconstruction. Republicans promise 1) Remove military from South, 2) Appoint Democrat to cabinet (David Key postmaster general), 3) Federal money for railroad construction and levees on Mississippi river; as long as Hayes became the president
- Reconstruction
- the period after the Civil War in the United States when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union 1865-1877
- Know-Nothing Party
- Aka the American party; made religions as well particulary in NE anti-catholic and Nativist party hoped to prolong the naturaliztion process weaening immigrant influence.
- John Brown
- abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1858);lead a slave revolt by capturing Armories in southern territory and giving weapons to slaves