What immediately happened right after Lincoln was elected as President in 1860?
Several states seceded from the Union.
What was the purpose of Reconstruction?
to help the Southern States rejoin the Union again.
What is the basis of the 13th Amendment?
to outlaw slavery
What is loyalty to one's own region or section of the country called?
sectionalism
What was the OVERALL purpose of all the Reconstruction Amendments
to give all citizens equal protection and rights under the law
What is the basis of the 14th Amendment?
said that all Black people were citizens of the U.S. and protected equally.
What was the purpose of the Reconstruction?
to help the Southern States rejoin the Union again.
How did the Civil War affect the North?
It helped industry grow and gave former slaves jobs.
What is the basis of the 15th Amendment?
To grant all men, regardless of race, the right to vote.
What were the Black Codes (also known as the Jim Crow Laws) ?
they limited the freedom of African Americans and ensured their availability of a cheap labor force even after slavery was abolished.
How did the Civil War affect the South?
They did not have factories to help with cotton production so they struggled.
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
It repealed the Missouri Compromise and opened the Kansas and Nebraska territories up to slavery again. Settlers rushed there to vote and many people were killed. (Bleeding Kansas)
Besides slavery, what other major issue increased tensions between the Union and Confederacy?
The issue of states' rights
What was the title of Lincoln's speech to free the slaves called?
The Emancipation Proclomation
What was the Missouri Compromise?
Whenever a slave state was admitted to the union, there also had to be a free state admitted at the same time to balance out.