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Person who wanted to end slavery completely in the United States Person who wanted to end slavery completely in the United States. People like Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garisson.

Abolitionists

Proposal made by Ben Franklin to create one government for the Colonies in response to the French and Indian War.

Albany Plan of Union

Program for economic growth promoted by Henry Clay in the early 1800’s; called for high tariffs on imports and federal funds to improve transportation.

American System

A person who learns a trade or craft from a master craftsman.

Apprentice

Virginia town that was the site of the Confederate surrender in 1865.

Appomattox Court House

A written list of freedoms that a government promises to protect.

bill of rights

Certificate that promises to repay money loaned, plus interest, on a certain date.

Bond

The shutting of a port to keep people or supplies from coming in or out.

Blockade

A 1773 protest in which colonists dressed up like Indians and dumped British tea into Boston Harbor.

The Boston Tea Party

A representative to the Virginia colonial legislature.

Burgess

Crop that was grown and sold for a profit.

Cash Crop

Type of road shown here.

Corduroy Road

The willingness to work for the good of the nation or community.

Civic Virtue

The idea that people have a right to disobey laws they consider to be unjust if their consciences demand it.

Civil Disobedience

Agreement over slavery by which California joined the Union as a free state and a strict fugitive slave act was passed.

The Compromise of 1850

A person who can not pay the money that he or she owes.

Debtor

Ruler with absolute power and authority.

Dictator

Supporters of Andrew Jackson, including frontier farmers and factory workers.

Democrats

A period of slow business activity, falling prices and wages and high unemployment.

Depression

The right of people accused of crime to go through the process of law in the United States.

Due Process

Official religion of a country.

Established Church

Group of electors from every state that meet once every four years to choose the President and Vice-President.

Electoral College

Lincolns 1863 declaration freeing slaves in the Confederacy.

Emancipation Proclamation

A supporter of the Constitution who favored a strong national government.

Federalist

One of the more than 80,000 people who went to California during the “Gold Rush”.

49’er

Highest social class in the 13 colonies.

The Gentry

Strip of land in present day New Mexico and Arizona that the United States paid Mexico $10 million.

Gadsden Purchase

Plan at the Constitutional Convention that settled the differences between large and small states plans for representation in Congress.

Great Compromise

An 1824 case in which the Supreme Court upheld the power of the federal government to regulate interstate commerce.

Gibbons Vs Ogden

Law that excused a voter from taking a literacy test if his father or grandfather had been eligible to vote on January 1, 1867.

Grandfather Clause