Slavery & Racism
How did the creation of California complicate previous compromises over the issue of slavery?
It did NOT fit neatly into the old 36° 30’ dividing line of free/slave states, as it stretches south to Mexico and north to Oregon.
ALSO: It added a free state without adding another slave state.
The primary cause of the Civil War (hint: each Southern state mentioned it in their official document of secession)
Slavery
Name for the policy that gave Confederate-seized land to formerly enslaved people in small plots:
40 acres and a mule
This amendment ended slavery
13th
How did Southern states successfully get around the 13th amendment's ban on slavery to continue to oppress Black people?
arrest Black people for very minor crimes like vagrancy, loitering, or walking near train tracks
Making the South happy, the 3/5ths compromise counted 60% of the enslaved population for this purpose:
Representation
This President signed the Emancipation Proclamation and helped push through the 13th amendment to the Constitution.
Abraham Lincoln
This political party proudly declared itself to be a "White man's party" and dedicated itself to fighting against Black people's civil rights:
Democratic
This amendment granted birthright citizenship and equal protection under the law to all Americans:
14th
How did Southern states get around the 14th amendment's requirement for "equal treatment under the law?"
Claim it was done by individuals NOT states and therefore legal
Blatantly violate it and dare the federal government to stop them
Ku Klux Klan
This President undid the "40 acres and a mule" policy, taking the land away from freedpeople and giving it back to ex-Confederates.
Andrew Johnson
This political party fought for Black people's civil rights, passing the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the Constitution, and helping oversee the Freedmen's Bureau:
Republican
This amendment granted Black men the right to vote
15th
This method of getting around the 15th amendment involved forcing all voters to pay money before they could vote:
Poll tax
Their removal led to more land open to slavery, specifically large slave plantations in Georgia.
ALSO: Many Cherokee Indians were slaveowners themselves, a practice they adopted in hopes that it would help them be accepted into White, Southern society
Slavery was NOT the primary cause
The North caused it due to their "aggression"
The Confederacy fought heroically and bravely against impossible odds
This organization helped former slaves adjust to freedom by helping them find work, shelter, build schools, learn to read and write, buy land, etc.
Freedmen's Bureau
This Supreme Court case ruled that Black people have no rights under the Constitution and that Northern states have no legal ability to ban slavery.
Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
This method of getting around the 15th amendment involved banning people from voting if their male ancestors were unable to vote prior to 1867:
Grandfather clause
Making the North happy, the 3/5ths compromise counted 60% of the enslaved population for this issue:
This northern state had a mayor (and other prominent Democratic politicians) who openly considered seceding from the Union and siding with the Confederacy:
New York
This organization actively worked to promote the Lost Cause, spreading it throughout the South through building monuments, banning books, and holding pageants.
United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC)
This Supreme Court case weakened the 14th amendment's protection of Black folk's civil rights by ruling that the federal government can't do anything about hate crimes committed by individual, private citizens.
U.S. v. Cruikshank (1876)
This method of getting around the 15th amendment involved requiring that voters prove they can read and write:
Literacy tests