Category 1
Slave who sued for freedom and was told he had no rights
Dred Scott
Decree issued by President Lincoln that freed the slaves in the rebelling states
Emancipation Proclamation
The idea that a state can choose not to follow federal laws
Nullification
President who was elected without winning a Southern State
Abraham Lincoln
Amendment that established voting rights for black citizens
15th amendment
The southern states during the Civil War
Confederacy
Union General who made Georgia Howl
William T Sherman
Amendment that abolished slavery
13th amendment
Arrangement where Farmer rents land from Owner by paying with part of the crop harvest
Sharecropping
President who was sympathetic to the South and had a more lenient reconstruction plan
Andrew Johnson
Amendment that established citizenship and civil rights for blacks
14th amendment
An organization that sought to help newly freed slaves
Freedmen's Bureau
An agreement to go along with the Compromise of 1850 as long as the fugitive slave act is a part of it
Georgia Platform
A law passed to try and maintain the balance of free and slave states
Compromise of 1850
Organization that sought to oppress black people in the south through fear and violence
Ku Klux Klan