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5th Six Weeks 5 Grade Social Studies Study Guide Civil War and Reconstruction th Loyalty to one section of a country rather than to the whole country Sectionalism Plantation System A system of agriculture developed in the Southern United States where slaves were used to help grow a cash crop Crops grown to be sold for profit. Examples: tobacco, rice, indigo, Cash crops sugar and cotton Person who wants to abolish, to end, slavery Abolitionist Right to vote Suffrage Harriet Tubman Abolitionist who escaped from slavery in 1849 and became a conductor of the Underground Railroad. She led more than 300 slaves to freedom. System of secret routes used by escaping slaves that led from the South Underground to the North or Canada Railroad Law passed in 1820 dividing the Louisiana Territory into areas Missouri prohibiting slavery and areas allowing slavery. compromise Law passed by Congress under which California was admitted to the Compromise of Union as a free state and the Fugitive Slave Law was passed 1850 Kansas-Nebraska Law passed in 1854 allowing these two territories to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery Act Harriet Beecher Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which exposed the cruelties of slavery to a wide audience before the Civil War Stowe Former slave who was a writer, editor, and leading abolitionist Frederick Douglass Supreme Court case that stated slaves had no rights because African Dred Scott Americans were not citizens of the United States Decision Abraham Lincoln He was the sixteenth President of the United States. He led the United States during the Civil War. To break away from a group, as the Southern states broke away from Secede the United States in 1861 War between people of the same country Civil War Commander of the Confederate forces in the Civil War Robert E. Lee Statement issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, Emancipation freeing all slaves in Confederate states still at war with the Union. Proclamation Period of rebuilding after the Civil War during which the Southern Reconstruction states rejoined the Union. Andrew Jackson Thirteenth Amendment Fourteenth Amendment Fifteenth Amendment Seventeenth President of the United States. Took office following Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. Ratified in December 1865: Declares slavery illegal Ratified in July 1868: Declares former slaves to be citizens and guarantees equal protection of the law to all citizens Ratified in February 1870: Prevents the denial of the right to voted based on race or previous condition of enslavement
