Slavery
This change to the US Constitution abolished slavery in the United States in 1865.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Laws passed in the Southern U.S. after the Civil War to limit the rights of formerly enslaved people.
What are the "Black Codes"?
The Fugitive Slave Act was the most controversial part of this legislative agreement regarding California statehood.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This constitutional amendment gave all Black men the right to vote (suffrage) in 1870.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This conflict between Nativists and Irish immigrants in Philadelphia took place in 1844 and included cannons on Catherine Street.
What is the "Bible Riots of 1844"?
This concept asserted that residents of a territory should decide for themselves whether to allow slavery when applying for statehood.
What is "Popular Sovereignty"?
This ended the Reconstruction Era and ushered in the era of Jim Crow.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
He attempted to start a slave revolt in Southern states by taking over a U.S. weapons depot at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
Who is John Brown?
This federal agency helped former slaves find jobs, housing and education after the end of slavery.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
These are the characteristics of a Nativist (or so-called "Native American") in the 1840s and 1850s.
What are being White, born on U.S. soil, and very anti-immigrant?
This political party was founded in 1854 by anti-slavery Democrats, Whigs, Free-Soilers, and Know-Nothings from the North and West.
What is the Republican Party?
Form of farming that tied formerly enslaved people to the land that they worked by forcing them into debt.
What is sharecropping?
A mini-civil war was fought between proslavery and antislavery advocates in this territory from 1855 to 1861.
What is Kansas (i.e. "Bleeding Kansas")?
Near the end of the Civil War, General Sherman issued an order distributing this to freed slaves.
What is 40 acres of land?
One advantage that the North had during the Civil War.
What is large industrial factories, a larger population (thanks to urbanization and immigration), or more railroads.
This speech marked a turning point in the Civil War: from a war to preserve the Union to a war to end slavery.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
The goal of the Red Shirts, a Democratic paramilitary group, was to do this.
What is suppress Black votes after the enactment of the 15th Amendment?
The acquisition of western lands (including California, Arizona, etc.) as a result of this war led to conflicts regarding the spread of slavery.
What is the Mexican American War (1846-1848)?
The New Orleans Massacre of 1866 helped convince Congress that this was needed in the South.
What are the Reconstruction Acts of 1867 which divided the South into 5 districts under military control?
What is 1861 to 1865?
This book portrayed enslavers as monsters and helped the abolitionist movement in the early 1850s.
What is "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?
This 1896 Supreme Court case held that the principle of "separate but equal" was constitutional.
What is "Plessy v. Ferguson"?
This action officially began the Civil War.
What is the attack by secessionist on Fort Sumter?
The election of this U.S. President is commonly associated with the end of Reconstruction.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
The crypt-keeper who was responsible for many compromises that kept slavery in place before the Civil War.
Who is Henry Clay?