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18 Cards in this Set
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Discrimination |
policy that denies equal rights to certain groups of people |
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Famine |
severe food shortage |
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Strike |
refusal by workers to do their jobs until demands are met |
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Trade Union |
Association of trade workers form to gain higher wages and better working conditions |
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Artisan |
skilled worker |
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Nativist |
person who is native to a land |
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Wilmont Proviso |
law passed in 1846 that banned slavery in any territory |
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Compromise of 1850 |
agreement over slavery by which Cali joined the Union as a free state & a strict fugitive slave law passed |
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Kansas Nebraska Act |
an 1854 law that established the territories of Nebraska and Kansas, giving the settlers the right of popular sovereignty to decide on the issue of slavery |
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Fugitive |
runaway |
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Martyr |
person who dies for his or her beliefs |
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Border Ruffian |
proslavery bands from Missouri who often battled antislavery forces in Kansas |
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Martial Law |
rule by the army instead of the elected government |
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Habeas Corpus |
the right not to be held in prison without first being charged with a specific crime |
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Inflation |
a rise in prices and a decrease in the value of money |
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Battle of Shiloh |
an 1862 Civil War battle in Tennessee that ended in a Union victory 😀 |
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Battle of Chancellorsville |
an 1863 Civil War battle in Virginia, the Confederates won ☹️ |
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Battle of Fredericksville |
an 1862 Civil War battle in Virginia; important victory for Confederacy ☹️ |
