Civil War
state where the first shots were fired and the first to secede from the Union
South Carolina
Codes that limited African American freedom in the South following the Civil War
Black Codes
Amendment that abolished slavery
13th
Political party that wanted free soil for working men in the new territories
the Free Soil Party
He led the raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia and attempted to start a revolt
John Brown
the Battle of Gettysburg
the Democratic Party
The idea that voters would decide whether new states in the West would be slave or free
popular sovereignty
Political party that formed in 1854 with former Whigs and Free Soilers
the Republican Party
Congressional that forbade any debate on slavery
the Gag Rule
Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln that freed enslaved people in the Confederate States as of 1863
the Emancipation Proclamation
the Freedmen's Bureau
Amendment that gave African Americans citizenship and promised equal protection
14th Amendment
Federal laws that established Land Grant Colleges
the Morrill Act
Secret route to the North and Canada that was followed by people who attempted to escape slavery
the Underground Railroad
First official African American regiment in the Civil War
Reconstruction plan that divided the South into 5 military districts
the Congressional Plan
Amendment that gave African American men the right to vote
15th Amendment
Narrative about the old South and Civil War that was popularized in books and films
the Lost Cause
Part of the Compromise of 1850 that allowed slaveowners to come North to recapture those who had run away and deputize local citizens to aid them
the Fugitive Slave Laws
Role of women during the Civil War
scouts, spies, soldiers, nurses, fundraising
the compromise that ended Reconstruction
the Compromise of 1877
Proposal to that would free enslaved people at the age of 25 in the Missouri Territory, it did not pass
the Tallmadge Amendment
Colleges established for African Americans
HBCUs
Implications of Dred Scott vs. Sandford
African Americans were not citizens of the U.S. and could not sue in court