The US and the World
This issue plagued Congress for much of the 1840s and 1850s and led to a series of compromises.
What is the balance between slave states and free states?
This political party emerged in 1848 and was focused on opposing the expansion of slavery into the western territories of the United States. It later merged with the Republican Party.
What is the Free Soil Party?
Those who believed that blacks should be granted equal rights and Southerners deserved punishment and included among them Thaddeus Stephens
Who are Radical Republicans
The proposal to prohibit slavery in territory acquired during the Mexican-American War.
What was the Wilmot Proviso?
The fiery abolitionist who died a martyr in the North and a murderer in the South - increasing hatred after his raid at Harpers Ferry
Who is John Brown?
The strategies that effectively stifled Southern resources and cut them off from the rest of the world.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
This agreement proposed a line at 36030' to solve the issue of the expansion of slavery into new territories acquired from the Louisiana Purchase.
What was the Missouri Compromise?
The twin victories in July 1863 in the North and out West that turned the tide of the war for the Union
What is Gettysburg and Vicksburg?
This was a legal arrangement where a tenant would work a landowner's land in exchange for a share of the crops produced. It was a common economic system in the United States after the Civil War and lasted until the mid-twentieth century.
What is sharecropping?
William Lloyd Garrison, publisher of the abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator advocated for this form of abolition.
What is immediatism?
The Civil War event that makes evident the continuity of economic inequality and class warfare and was contingent to the deaths reported in the newspaper from the Battle of Gettysburg.
What are the Draft Riots in NYC?
Reconstruction bill passed by Congress in 1864 that outlined a framework for reintegrating the Confederate states into the Union and included a stipulation that 50% of a state's white male voters would have had to swear an "Ironclad Oath" to the Union. The oath would have required them to state that they had never helped the Confederacy.
What is the the Wade-Davis Bill?
Who is James K. Polk?
Advocates of slavery set up a proslavery government in this Kansas city.
What was Lecompton.
This man was famously caned by South Carolina representative after delivering a fiery speech about the evils of slavery titled “The Crime Against Kansas.”
These 4 border states were continuously at the top of Lincoln's mind when making strategies and decisions during the Civil War.
What are Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri?
This event in 1873 occurred in Louisiana and included the death of 50-150 black men when they surrendered to a mob of former Confederate soldiers and members of the Ku Klux Klan and illustrated the violence African Americans faced during Reconstruction and beyond in the South.
What is the Colfax Massacre?