Significant People
Cause Of The Civil War
Reconstruction
Course Of The Civil War
Jim Crow & Sharecropping
100
This individual was the President of the United States leading up to the Civil War
Abraham Lincoln
100
This is when an individual takes pride in the REGION they are from.
Sectionalism
100
Andrew Johnson
100
To limit bloodshed, the Union set up a naval blockade to cut the Confederacy off from supplies.
The Anaconda Plan
100
State laws restricting the freedoms and rights of people of color.
Black Codes
200
This referred to someone who arrives in a new place with only a small bag of belongings and tries to gain control or profit from the new area, often against the wishes of the locals.
Carpetbagger
200
This agreement between the Union and Confederacy gave the south Missouri as a slave state, Maine as a free state, and border lines in Missouri representing free/slave states.
Missouri Compromise of 1820
200
This was a time period when Americans tried to rebuild the south.
Reconstruction
200
This marks the day when Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas in 1865 to take control of the state and ensure that all enslaved people be freed. The troops’ arrival came a full two and a half years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation.
Juneteenth
200
Segregation laws separating people of color from white people.
Jim Crow Laws
300
This individual fought for he and his families freedom as a slave taking his court case all the way to the Supreme Court.
Dredd Scott
300
Abraham Lincoln won the Presidency during this time period with less than 40% of all Electoral Votes.
The Election of 1860
300
This address made by President Lincoln stated that all slaves in rebellion states on January 1, 1863 would be freed.
Emancipation Proclamation
300
Border States
300
A word used for not braking a law but going AROUND it.
Circumvent
400
This former Vice President originated from the South and was apart of the Democratic party that did not believe Southern states should sign loyalty oaths.
Andrew Johnson
400
This law stated that ANY slave from the South escaping to the North and is found by law would have to be returned to their slave owner immediately.
The Fugitive Slave Act
400
This group of individuals wanted to free, and protect all slaves in the south while punishing Confederate leaders.
Radical Republicans
400
These two neighboring territories got into it over the institution of slavery in its region(s).
Kansas-Nebraska Act
400
A vision for a new economy in the South, based on northern manufacturing.
New South
500
Scalawag(s)
500
This agreement admitted California as a free state, introduced "Popular Sovereignty", and banned slavery in Washington D.C
Compromise of 1850
500
This individual wanted the abolition of the institution of slavery; no guarantee of equal protection; suggested suffrage for Black men who fought for the Union.
Abraham Lincoln
500
The Union had 3 advantages over the Confederacy during the Civil War.... It's population, it's industry, and what.....?
Military Strategy
500
A system where sharecroppers or tenant farmers couldn’t leave until debts to landowners were paid.
Debt Peonage