VOCAB FIRST 9 WEEKS

Question 1

Popular Sovereignty

Answer 1

The states right to vote for themselves

Question 2

Compromise

Answer 2

Agreement to soothe both sides.

Question 3

Abolitionist

Answer 3

A person who is against slavery

Question 4

Sectionalism

Answer 4

To personally identify with a region more than a nation

Question 5

Fugitive

Answer 5

An escaped prisoner or slave

Question 6

Secede

Answer 6

Exit/Leave

Question 7

Arsenal

Answer 7

Area that stores weapons

Question 8

Martyr

Answer 8

Person who dies for their beliefs

Question 9

13th Amendment

Answer 9

Abolished Slavery

Question 10

14th Amendment

Answer 10

Bans Discrimination

Question 11

15th Amendment

Answer 11

All MEN can vote

Question 12

19th Amendment

Answer 12

Women’s ability to vote

Question 13

Suffrage

Answer 13

Ability to vote

Question 14

16th Amendment

Answer 14

Established a federal income tax

Question 15

17th Amendment

Answer 15

Established direct election of senators

Question 16

18th Amendment

Answer 16

Established a ban on alcohol

Question 17

21st Amendment

Answer 17

Unbanned Alcohol

Question 18

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

Answer 18

Roosevelt

Question 19

Black Codes

Answer 19

restricted the rights of African Americans

Question 20

Freedman’s Bureau

Answer 20

A federal agency that was established to help AA and provide them with free land, college, and protection

Question 21

Civil Right

Answer 21

A right that is guaranteed to all citizens of a country

Question 22

Radical Republican

Answer 22

A section of the Republican party that not only campaigns against slavery but wants the south to be severely punished.

Question 23

Segregation

Answer 23

The official practice of keeping people separated, especially people of different races.

Question 24

Sharecropping

Answer 24

A legal arrangement in which a land owner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on that land.

Question 25

Debt Peonage

Answer 25

Bonded labor (peonage) is the pledge of a person’s services as the security for the repayment of debt

Question 26

Tenant Farming

Answer 26

An agricultural production system in which landowners contribute their land and often have tenants gain them capital by allowing them to live there.

Question 27

Plessy v. Ferguson

Answer 27

Upheld Louisianna state law that allowed separate but equal accommodations

Question 28

Jim Crow Law

Answer 28

Segregated areas that AA couldn’t enter (by law)

Question 29

Ku Klux Klan

Answer 29

A violent secret fraternal society founded in 1915 GA to maintain white protestant cultural and political power. (OG founded TN 1870’s)

Question 30

Literacy Test

Answer 30

Exam for assessing a person’s ability to read and write

Question 31

Amnesty

Answer 31

An official pardon for people who have been convicted of political offenses.

Question 32

Lynched

Answer 32

To kill someone, especially by hanging.

Question 33

Poll Tax

Answer 33

A tax levied on every adult w/o reference to income or resources.

Question 34

Grandfather Clause

Answer 34

statutory or constitutional device enacted by seven Southern states between 1895 and 1910 to deny suffrage to African Americans.

Question 35

Vertical Integration

Answer 35

Different-level companies combine and boost capital while increasing efficiency.

Question 36

Horizontal Integration

Answer 36

When the same level companies combine to do good things like boost the economy and make more money, etc.