antebellum and secession

antebellum period (before civil war)

the time in american history leading up to secession (1800-1860)

secession

is the action of leaving the state or territory

The civil War

(1865-1877)

Reconstruction

the time after the civil war where the nation reconstructed itself (1865-1877)

hierarchy

A system of which things or poeple are ranked according to their importance

Institutionalize

to make part of a system of goverment

three fifths compromise

The north and the south argues on how inslaved people will be counted in population

it was decided that every 5 enslaved people that will count for 3 white people for taxation and representation purposes

Missouri compromise

was a slave state and maine as a non slave state

Sectionalism

people loyalty to a part or region of a country, rather than the country as a whole.

northern culture

strong federal goverment/manufacturing/trading

southern culture

localized goverments/agricultural economy/ resensten to industrialization

democratic party

limited federal government/ popular in the south

whig party

supported mostly northern manufacturing/many abolitionists (people who opposed slavery) were members

Whig party split

It was split over slavery

Free soil party

Was a single issue party (Would vote based on one issue only) that posed the expansion of slavery into new territory

The know Nothing party

Wanted to limit how much power immigrants had

Republican party 1850

Made up of unhappy Wig, Democratic, Free Soilers, and Know-Nothing in the North.

Republican party agenda of 1850

they fought against the expansion of slavery and the democratic party

Birth records

Washington farm birth of enslaved children alongside the births of livestock.

yeoman farmers

did not own slaves but used family members to use farms

they were poor women had to contribute greatly to the families earned income by weaving cloth making clothing, soap, or candles.

small slave holders

A large portion of the south who did not own plantations

owned fewer than 5 slaves worked along side the slaves on small plots of the land

lived subsistence (enough to have basic needs)

planters

slaves were owned by planters owned large plantations

Made up of 10% Souths population but controlled 90% of its wealth

politically powerful and wealthy

paternalistic obligation

planation owners felt a need to look after society by holding office

Slave holders Wives

often carried heavy burdens southern women had more children and married earlier than women in north

Center of domestic center(had to listen to husband do everything at home)

Women that worked on small farms worked along slaves but the women that worked on big plantations ran the farms while husband were away

abolitonists

a person who wants to abolish slavery

westword expanision

the period in the 19th century when a us grew by moving westword across north america

fugitive slave act

law passed in 1850 that required people in free states to help capture and return escaped enslaved people to their owners and slave states

made illegal to assets runaway slaves with peneltys on anyone who did help them

international slave trade

traficking slaved people, transporting them and purchashing them for profit

dread scott decision

slaved people were not citizens of hte united states and couldnt not have ptotection from federal goverment

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