Before Civil War
Compromise between the North and South that allowed California to enter the union in exchange for the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act.
What is Compromise of 1850?
This document that Lincoln wrote changed the Civil War from States Rights to Human Rights.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Constitutional amendment that granted freedom to all Americans who suffered involuntary servitude.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This Reconstruction plan was based on forgiveness and a quick, peaceful reunion with the South.
What is Presidential Reconstruction? (Lincoln and Johnson)
Laws created by Southern legislatures during Reconstruction that took away the civil rights of freedmen. These Laws were meant to slow down the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments.
What are Black Codes?
Supreme Court ruling that declared slaves were not citizens of the United States.
What is the Dred Scott Case?
This was the Unions overall military strategy to cut off southern ports and control the Mississippi River.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
Amendment that gave voting rights to all men regardless of race or color
What is the 15th Amendment?
The Constitutional amendment overturned the Dred Scott decision.
What is the The 14th Amendment?
Terrorist organization created to intimidate and prevent freedmen and Republicans from gaining political power in the South.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
The belief that a state's sovereignty is more important than that of the national government.
What is States Rights?
These two battles were turning points in the Civil war. One in the west and one in the east.
150 pts each.
What are the Battles of Gettysburg(East) and Vicksburg (West)?
A law that made northern states return any slaves that escaped from the South.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
Agency set up to start schools, churches, supply food, and clothing for former slaves and poor whites. Greatest accomplishment was education.
What is Freedmen's Bureau?
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ending the Mexican American War. This tract of land was added to the United States.
He was sworn in as President after the President before him was assassinated by John Wilks Booth.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This Supreme Court case solidified segregation in the South by declaring it constitutional in 1896.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
A northerner who moved to the south to aid in the Reconstruction effort
What is a carpetbagger?
This event was the most direct cause of the Civil War
What is the Election of 1860?
Or Lincoln's Election, Secession
This man was seen a martyr after his raid at Harper's Ferry.
Who is John Brown?
The General who is famous for his "March to the Sea"
Who is William T. Sherman?
This act put the South under federal military occupation for what ended up being 10 years
What is the Reconstruction Act of 1867?
Political faction in Congress that took over the Reconstruction process in 1867 and advocated vigorously for African-American rights.
Who was the leader of this faction in the House of Representatives?
Who are the Radical Republicans?
Who is Thaddeus Stevens?