U.S. History Terms IV

Withdraw

Economic crisis in which hundreds of banks failed.

Belief that the United States should own all the land between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

Give up, as in land.

Person who went to California during the Gold Rush in 1849.

Self appointed law enforcers who deals out punishements whitout holding a trial.

People with a trade, such as a carpenter, a printer, or shoemaker.

People who do a job that requires little training.

Association of workers formed to win better wages and working conditions.

Person who leaves his or her homeland to settle in another country.

Law passed by southern states after the Civil War. Excused a voter from poll tax or a literary test if his father or grandfather voted in 1867.

Policy or attitude that denies equal rights to certain people.

People who wanted to end slavery in the United States.

Secret network of people who helped runaway slaves to reach freedom in the North or Canada.

Campaign against the sale or drinking of alcohol.

Strong sense of loyalty to a state or section instead of to the whole country.

The concept that political power rests with the people who can create, alter, and abolish government. People express themselves through voting amd free participation in government. Popular sovereignty is an important characteristic of democratic government.

Runaway, such as an escaped slave in the 1800s.

Small Civil War in the United States, fought between pro-slavery and anti-slavery advocates for control of the new territory of Kansas under the doctrine of popular sovereignty.

One of the two primarypolitical parties of the U.S., organized in1854 to oppose the extensionof slavery into western territories.

One of the two primary political parties of the U.S., owing its origin to a split in the Democratic-Repunlican Party under Andrew Jackson.

Nation formed by the states that seceded from the Union in 1860 and 1861.

Rule by the military.

Set free.

Persons not in the military.

Payment made to men who joined the Union army.

Law requiring men of a certain age to serve in the military.

Right to have charges filed or a trial before being jailed.

Economic cycle in which the value of money falls and the prices of goods rise.

Person who takes advantage of an emergency to make money.