Debate over Slavery
Formally withdraw - from the Union
What is Secede
Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri were slave states that did not join the Confederacy. They were called what
What are the border states
The definition of this word is, "Freeing of Slaves"
What is emancipation
The process of readmitting the former Confederate states to the Union
What is Reconstruction
Laws that greatly limited the freedom of African Americans
What are Black Codes
The anti-slavery novel
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin.
This part of the country had advantages of the war such as, roads, canals and railroads
Who was the North
President Lincoln wrote the _________, which was the order to free the Confederate slaves.
What is Emancipation Proclamation
This amendment made slavery illegal throughout the United States
What is Amendment 13
These laws divided the South into five districts
What are the Reconstruction Acts
Antislavery northerners formed a new political party
What is the Free-Soil Party
These soldiers wore blue uniforms
Who were Union Soliders
These escaped slaves were given the right to join the Union army in South Carolina. These escaped slaves were called ________
Contrabands
An agency providing relief for freed-people and certain poor people in the south
What is Freedmen's Bureau
This Amendment made all people born or naturalized within the United States citizens
What is Amendment 14
This made it a crime to help runaway slaves and allowed officials to arrest those slaves in free states
What is the Fugitive Slave Act
Volunteers who fight in the army
Who are militias
Midwesterners that sympathized with the South and opposed abolition.
What are Copperheads
After President Lincoln was shot and killed, his Vice President took office.
Who was Andrew Jackson
To bring charges of wrongdoing against a public official
What is impeachment
California is able to enter the Union as a free state
What is the Compromise of 1850
The majority of the worlds cotton was grown in this part of the country.
What is the South.
The constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment.
What is Habeas Corpus
This plan offered southerners amnesty, or official pardon for all illegal acts supporting the rebellion
What is Ten Percent Plan
This gave african american males the right to vote
What is Amendment 15