Causes
The election of this president was immediate cause of the South seceding from the Union.
Abraham Lincoln
This is a farming system that developed in the South where farmers work for a landlord and borrow tools/seeds/materiel then at the end payback 50% of their crop
Sharecropping
What is total war?
The destruction of civilian houses and crops. War happens outside of the 'battlefield'
This was the belief that it was our God-Given right to spread out into the Western territories
Manifest Destiny
Definition: This is a person who does not support slavery and wants to see it end
Abolitionist
This author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
Harriet Beecher Stowe
What was the goal of Congressional Reconstruction (Congress)
To give African-American Rights
What was the economy of the South like before the Civil War? What was the economy of the North like?
South- Agricultural
North- Industrial
This was a part of the Compromise of 1850, it forced Northerners to help capture escaped slaves
The Fugitive Slave Act
Define Suffrage
The ability to vote
This was the abolitionist who raided Harper's Ferry and tried to start an (unsuccessful) slave rebellion
**DOUBLE JEOPARDY**
John Brown
These were a set of laws that the South passed directly after the Civil War to restrict African-American freedom and 're-create' the conditions of slavery
Black Codes
What was Abraham Lincoln's goal?
To keep the Union together
Called 'The Great Compromiser', this man wrote the Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850 and the Tariff Compromise
**DOUBLE JEOPARDY**
Henry Clay
Definition: To take away, or restrict someone's right to vote
**DOUBLE JEOPARDY**
Disenfranchise
This was a court case that decided that
1. African American's were not citizens
2. Slave-owners could take their states even into 'free' states since Congress could not limit their 'property rights'
Dred Scott Case
Define the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendment
**DOUBLE JEOPARDY**
13th - Ended Slavery
14th- Gave African American's Citizenship
15th- Gave African American (men) the right to vote
List 3 advantages that the North had in the Civil War.
1. Larger population
2. Industry
3. More railroads/telegraphs
What were some important parts of the Missouri Compromise?
1. 36*30' parallel line; everything North of this line would be free territory and everything South would be permit slavery
2. Missouri could come in the Union as a slave state if Maine could come in as a free state
Definition: To leave the union
Secede
This President let Texas into the Union, leading to conflict between Northern abolitionists and Southern slaveholders and causing the Mexican American War
James Polk
According to Presidential Reconstruction, how did a Confederate State get back into the Union?
10% of the population had to accept a loyalty oath.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation and how did it change the war?
1. It freed all the slaves in the South
2. It made the war about freedom, which let the North recruit more African-American soldiers and also inspired people to fight
Name at least 2 parts of the Great Compromise (Compromise of 1850)
Hint: Think about the problems after the Mexican-American War with land and slaves.
1. California would enter as a free state
2. Fugitive Slave Act
3. Popular-Sovereignty would decide the status of slavery in the new states
4. Texas would have to sell some of it's land to pay back debts
Definition: The people are allowed to vote directly on issues, such as if to allow or not allow slavery in a state.
Popular-sovereignty