5: Civil War and Reconstruction Review

Before War

100

First state to secede

South Carolina

200

The South began to secede after THIS EVENT, fearing its implications on slavery. 

Lincoln's election- 1860

300

President before Lincoln & his stance towards secession

Buchanan

illegal but couldn't do anything about it

400

"In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect and defend" it."

Name of author and event

Lincoln- First Inauguration Speech (1861)

500

This would have amended the Constitution to protect slavery south of the MO Compromise line

Crittenden Compromise

Civil War

100

Abolished slavery in the United States

13th Amendment

200

Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in:

areas of rebellion

300

The Union captured THIS CITY, which helped Lincoln win reelection

Atlanta

400

Led to a riot in NYC

Conscription Act of 1863

500

Bye bye McClellan- General McClellan was removed from command after THIS battle

Antietam

Laws

100

Amendment ratified which guaranteed all people "equal protection of the laws" and "due process"

14th

200

Lincoln suspended THIS to suppress dissent for the war effort 

habeas corpus

300

A federal organization that assisted the newly emancipated in many different aspects- created in 1865

Freedmen's Bureau

400

Law that declared enslaved people behind Union lines forever free

Confiscation Act

500

Declared freedmen to be citizens and access to the courts

Civil Rights Act of 1866

Reconstruction

100

Lincoln's initial plan for former Confederate states to return to the Union

Ten Percent Plan

200

Name given by Southerners to other Southerners that supported Reconstruction

Scalawags

300

Many formerly enslaved became trapped in debt working as:

sharecroppers (crop lien system)

400

Radical Republicans thought Lincoln too lenient on readmision and passed THIS bill. 

Wade-Davis Bill

500

A secret organization that promoted Radical Republicanism in the South

Union League

Random

100

All resources are mobilized for the war effort (vocab)

total war

200

Laws enacted to regulate the movement and behavior of Black Americans in the South

Black Codes

300

The women's rights movement split during the passage of this amendment

15th Amendment

400

Political Party that Lincoln and Johnson ran on for in the Election of 1864

National Union Party

500

The Compromise of 1877 "ended" Reconstruction

 What was the Compromise? Include the names and parties of the Presidential Candidates in 1876.

Republican Hayes could become President if federal troops were removed from the South

Hayes (R), Tilden (D)