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History chapter 4

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Northwest Ordinance
established the Northwest Territory and provided for its government.
Natchez Trace
(the overland route that followed a northeasterly path beginning in Natchez)
Jefferson College
This college was named for President Thomas Jefferson.
Flatboats
(large boats with flat bottoms and square ends, used for carrying freight downstream)
Devil's Backbone
After selling their goods in New Orleans, the boatmen dismantled their boats and sold the lumber. They then embarked upon the long and dangerous return to Kentucky and Tennessee by way of the Natchez Trace, which was known as...
canebrakes
(thickets cane)
decapitated
(cut off the head
William C. C. Claiborne was
governor of the Mississippi Territory
annexation
(adding territory to an existing governmental unit)
Describe the boundaries of the golf coast area added to the Mississippi territory in 1810
between the 31° parallel and the Gulf Coast, from the Mississippi River on the west to the Perdido
Under the Mississippi constitution of 1817 weather 4 eligibility requirements to vote
Only a white male citizen 21 years of age to own property were members of the state militia
sectionalism
(an allegiance to local, rather than national, interests).
pro- tective tariff
a tax placed on manufactured goods that are imported into America from foreign countries.
Internal improvements
Roads , bridges , canals, and other transportation needs
Constitution of 1832
The removal of all property qualifications for public office and for voting
Flush times
The economic expansion of the early 1830s
Missouri compromise
There early controversy over slavery expansion into the western territories was resolved by the way...
What did the Missouri compromise do?
The compromise prohibited slavery in the Louisiana purchase above 36°30' parallel but allowed slavery below the36°30' Line
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
This treaty ended the Mexican war
Abolitionists
(those w political power of the slave states. They wanted to end slavery
Wilmot Proviso,
Ignited a better sectional debate in Congress the law was not passed it Mississippians another Southerners were angry that no I didn't stay to try to prevent them from taking a slight into the Western territory
Compromise of 1850
Henry Clay introduced a series of bills that became known as ...
Fire-eaters
This man tried to persuade the seven people that sucession from the union was the only Choice Southerners had it they wanted to maintain their traditional way of life
Kansas- Nebraska act
Created the two new territories of Kansas and Nebraska and specified the status of slavery in those territories will be determined by popular vote
Free-soilers
Does opposed to the extension of slavery into the territories
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