Vocabulary
The 13th Amendment
Abolished Slavery
What type of economy did the North and South have?
North: Industrialized
South: Agricultural
Who was the 16th President of the US?
Abraham Lincoln
What was the name of the rebellious South during the civil war
Confederate States of America
When did the Reconstruction Era begin?
After the Civil War - 1865
The act of a state leaving a federal union
Secede
The act requiring people to return escaped slaves
Fugitive Slave Act
What political party was Lincoln part of
Republican Party
What state was the first to secede?
South Carolina
What are the reconstruction Amendments?
13th, 14th, 15th Amendments
Term: to vote your grandfather must have voted in a previous election
Grandfather Clause
Uncle Toms Cabin
What did Lincoln sign to free enslave people in 'rebellious' states
Emancipation Proclamation
Who was the general of the Confederate Army?
Robert E Lee
Name 1 southern law that restricted Afr. Amer. voting rights
-Grandfather clause
-Literacy Test
-Registry prevention
A farming system where a tenant farmer works a landowner's land in exchange for a portion of the crop produced
Sharecropping
The compromise law deciding what new states would be free or slave states
The Compromise of 1850
What speech did Lincoln give after the bloodiest battle?
The Gettysburg Address
Who was the president of the rebellious South?
Jefferson Davis
Who was the president after Abe Lincoln?
Andrew Johnson
Term/Philosophy "God given right to expand westward"
Manifest Destiny
Act counting only a fraction of enslave people toward the state representation
3/5 Compromise
Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
What year did the Civil War end?
1865
What were two goals of Reconstruction?
- To support newly freedmen and women