Life as a Slave
Crated during the Reconstruction era to cause terror and protect white supremacy.
Ku Klux Klan
Caused South Carolina Secede from the Union.
Election of Abraham Lincoln.
The event that triggered the outbreak/start of the Civil War.
Battle of Fort Sumter
Declaring all slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Emancipation Proclamation
Woman were pushed to role in the Civil Role
Nurses
Reason for slave involvement in the civil war (union).
To Aid the war effort and cause.
What were the Economic Differences between the North and South.
The North was industrializing rapidly, while the South relied heavily on agriculture, particularly the plantation system and Slavery.
Causes for Civil War.
Slavery, State Rights and economic differences between the North and South.
Officially abolishing slavery in the United States.
13 Amendment
This period led to some women working in factories and joining the work force.
Industrialization
Although the 14 amendment was created Slaves could still not.
Vote
California becomes a free state, provided for a territorial government for Utah and New Mexico, established a boundary between Texas and the United States
Compromise of 1850.
Main Role of Woman.
Nurses
Prohibited the denial of voting rights based on race, color.
15 Amendment.
Slaves were able to do this before woman were able to
Vote.
Caused racial segregation in everyday life. Schools, education and transportation.
Jim Crow Laws
Requiring the return of escaped slaves to their owners.
Fugitive Slave Act
He served as the commanding general of the Confederate Army from Virginia
Robert E Lee
Dividing the South into military districts.
These reforms advocated to grant women equal rights toward property ownership, divorce, and employment.
Legal reforms
Underground Rail Road.
Helped to guide one hundred thousand enslaved people to freedom in the north. Lead by Harriet Tubman. “Conductors” guided runaway enslaved people.
Declared that slaves were property not citizens, and Congress has no authority to prohibit slavery.
Dred Scott V Stanford.
The bloodiest single day battle in American history.
The Battle of Antietam
Assist newly freed slaves in the South, provided education, medical care, etc.
Freedmen's Bureau
Convention fought for the social, civil and religious rights of women.
Seneca Falls Convention