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Goal Three Vocabulary

Directions: For each of the following terms, state their significance to the study of U.S. History.
Do not merely give a definition; instead, contemplate why each is IMPORTANT, discover their
RELEVANCE. Investigate each using the questions: who, what, when, where, and why.

Harriet Tubman George McClellan

Kansas-Nebraska Act Freedman’s Bureau

Bleeding Kansas LeCompton Constitution

Republican Party Monitor v. Merrimac

Sumner-Brooks Incident Conscription Act

Freeport Doctrine Radical Republicans

Lincoln-Douglas Debates Thaddeus Stevens

Free Soil Party Compromise of 1877

Compromise of 1850 Tenure of Office Act

Dred Scott v. Sanford Scalawags

Harper’s Ferry Carpetbaggers

Election of 1864 Black Codes

Emancipation Proclamation Sharecroppers

Appomattox Court House Tenant Farmers

Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson Jim Crow Laws

Nat Turner’s Rebellion The Whiskey Ring

54th Massachusetts Solid South

Clara Barton 13th Amendment

Andersonville 14th Amendment

Uncle Tom’s Cabin 15th Amendment

Election of 1860 Civil Rights Act of 1866

Gettysburg Address Wade-Davis Bill

Writ of Habeas Corpus Panic of 1873

Anaconda Plan

Copperheads

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