Pre Civil War
Missouri admitted to the union as a slave state and Maine as a free state. Slavery was also prohibited north of the 36 degree 30 N line.
What is The Missouri Compromise of 1820
Three parts. 1) surround the Confederacy by sea and by land blockades, 2) take control of the Mississippi River to cut Confederate forces in two, and 3) ambush and surround the Confederacy and their capital.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
This was created to help the freedmen adjust to freedom.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
Having complete control over the market.
What is a monopoly?
He created a Railroad sleeper car that was more comfortable and luxurious for overnight travel on a train
Who is George Pullman?
It consisted of laws admitting California as a free state and making it easier for southerners to recover fugitive slaves (Fugitive Slave Act).
What is the Compromise of 1850?
After the Civil war this organization was created with the goal was to destroy the Republican Party and to prevent African Americans from exercising their political rights
What is the KKK? Ku Klux Klan
Discrimination against blacks. Passed after the civil war limiting rights of the freedmen.
What is the Black Codes?
Congress regulates interstate railroads
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
She created hair products for African American women and thought to be the first African American millionaire.
Who is Madam CJ Walker?
Popular sovereignty (let the people decide) was used to determine the question of slavery in these two territories. Slave issue was reopened because this could tip the balance in Congress of free/slave states.
What is Kansas - Nebraska Act (1854) ?
Northerners who moved South after the war
What is/are carpet baggers?
This President wanted to readmit the southern states when 10% voters pledged allegiance to the Union and recognized the end of slavery. He did not want to punish the south.
Who is Lincoln?
This act outlawed trusts and monopolies
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
What is Vertical Integration?
African American sued for his freedom. The Supreme Court decided that a black person could not sue for freedom because he was property. Laws deciding on states rights were unconstitutional because a slave owner could take his property with him to new territories. This outraged the north.
What is the Dred Scott decision (1857)?
Lincoln issued this freeing the slaves in the rebel states but not in the border states that didn’t leave the union.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
They did not want this act challenged in a court of law and possibly overturned by the Supreme Court so they created this amendment. (Need both the act and the amendment)
What is the Civil Rights Act and the 14th amendment?
This act created land grants to states to support technical and agricultural colleges
What is the Morrill Act?
He adopted the bessemer process and was successful in the steel industry.
Who is Carnegie?
White abolitionists attacked a federal arsenal in Virginia hoping to stir up slave revolts throughout the South. No slaves joined in the fight.
What is John Brown's Raid (1859)?
This famous speech from Lincoln began with "four score and seven years ago..." dedicating a national cemetery for the soldiers that died in battle.
What is The Gettysburg Address?
This act authorized the federal government to break up reservation lands into individual plots. Only those Native Americans who accepted the individual allotments were allowed to become US citizens. This was an attempt to assimilate the Native Americans into American society.
What is The Dawes Act?
This act offered free land to settlers occupying farms in the west
What is The Homestead Act?
Known for monopolizing the oil industry.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?