Miscellaneous
To advocate for the end of slavery.
What is abolition?
Allowing states to decide for themselves by vote whether or not to permit slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
The turning point in the war.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
Amendment that ended slavery
13th Amendment
The period after the Civil War in which the south was restored to the Union.
What is reconstruction?
The Gettysburg Address defined what as the purpose of the Civil War?
What is equality, to fight for a government in which all men are created equal?
The southern states gave this reason for seceding.
What is slavery?
The plan that the North had to win the Civil War that was a blockade of the South.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
Terrorist organization founded after the Civil War that resisted rights given to African Americans.
What is the KKK?
What was the goal of the 14th Amendment?
What is to protect the rights of African Americans?
Law that captured African Americans in the North and sent them into slavery and angered many Northern white people.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
What group of people did the Fugitive Slave Law especially upset?
Who are abolitionists in the North?
A military move that split the South in half and used burn tactics throughout the South.
What is Sherman's March to the Sea?
Court case that happened in a rail car and ruled that "separate is equal"
What is Plessy v Ferguson
The organization that assisted slaves after the Civil War.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
The agreement that admitted Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state and kept states above the 36th Parallel free states.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
The agreement that added California as a free state and enforced the Fugitive Slave Law.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
Military troops stationed in the South after the Civil War had this primary goal.
What is to ensure Southern governments followed the Constitution, especially to protect formerly enslaved people.
Amendment that guarantees "equal protection under the law"
What is the 14th Amendment
Laws that limited the rights of African Americans.
What are black codes?
What was the main objective of the Dawes Act?
What is to limit the power of Native American tribes?
Spark the started the secession of the Southern states.
What is the election of Lincoln?
Control of this river was vital to the Union completing the Anaconda Plan and blockading the South.
What is the Mississippi River?
Occupation of many formerly enslaved people that kept them trapped in cycles of poverty for generations.
What is sharecropping?
Brought an end to Reconstruction by giving the North a Republican President and allowing for the troops to withdraw from the South.
What is the Compromise of 1877?