Chapters 13/14 Flashcards
Discrimination
Unfair treatment of a group; usually due to race/religon
Abolitionist
A person who strongly favors doing away with slavery
Famine
An extreme shortage of food
Nativist
A person who favors those born in his country ; opposed to imigrants
Overseer
Person who supervises a large operation or its workers
Slave code
Laws passed in the Southern states that controlled/restricted enslaved people
Underground railroad
A system that helped African American slaves escape from the South to the North
Fugitive
Runaway or trying to run away
Secede
To leave or withdraw
Popular Sovereignty
The idea that people living in a territory had the right to decide by voting if slavery would be allowed there
4 differences between the North and South
North: South:
- business -farming
- modern transportation -poor transportation
- industry/factories -plantations
- city life -fewer cities
Southerns thought of African Americans as…
Not as superior as whites, treated them like tools.
When was the Kansas-nebraska act?
1854
Who helped vote kansas a slave state?
Border ruffians
Who was the chief in the dred scott desicion that declared slavery legal?
Chief justice taney
What was the dred scott desicion about?
Dred scott wanted freedom from slavery
When was the law suit for the dred scott decision filed?
1846
When does the supreme court decide against dred scott?
1857
Where was the dred scott decision
Missouri and illinois
When was john browns raid?
1859
Where was john browns raid?
Harpers ferry, virginia
What does jown brown get convicted of?
He was convited of treason, he was hung on december 2, 1859
Martyr
Person who dies for a great cause
Arsenal
Storage place for weapons
