Sectionalism
Loyalty to region over nation.
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Civil War & Reconstruction
Key terms for APUSH.
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Missouri Compromise
1820 slavery balance deal.
Compromise of 1850
Package including Fugitive Slave Act.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Popular sovereignty; Bleeding Kansas.
Dred Scott
1857 decision denying Black citizenship.
Emancipation Proclamation
1863 freed enslaved in rebel areas.
Gettysburg
Turning-point battle 1863.
Appomattox
Lee surrenders 1865.
Reconstruction
Postwar rebuilding and rights struggle.
13th/14th/15th
Reconstruction Amendments.
Freedmen's Bureau
Aid for formerly enslaved people.
Black Codes
Restrictive Southern laws after war.
Compromise of 1877
Ended Reconstruction; troops withdrawn.
Sharecropping
Farm labor system trapping many in debt.