Civil War Vocabulary
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?
Two sets of 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 Jim Crow Laws or Black Codes?
This document that Lincoln wrote changed the Civil War from States Rights to Human Rights.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This government agency was created to assist former slaves with their new lives in America. They helped with education, jobs, medical treatment, legal assistance, etc.
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
Supreme Court ruling that declared African Americans were not citizens of the United States.
What is the Dred Scott Case?
This amendment abolished Slavery in the US.
What is the 13th amendment?
The General who is famous for his "March to the Sea"
Who is William T. Sherman?
This era was a time in which the United States needed to be reunited after the Civil War.
What is Reconstruction?
What is the Gettysburg Address?
Person deliberatly working to free slaves.
Who is an Abolishionist?
The first battle of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Fort Sumter?
He was appointed President after President Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
A law that made northern states return any slaves that escaped from the South.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This law canceled the Missouri Compromise and made the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, allowed the states to vote on whether slavery was legal or not. It also produced a violent uprising known as “Bleeding Kansas,” as proslavery and antislavery activists flooded into the territories to sway the vote.
What is the Kansas Nebraska Act?
This Amendment granted citizenship to all men and women born or naturalized in the US.
What is a the 14th Amendment?
The Abolishionist known for conducting the Underground Railroad?
Who is Harriet Tubman?
The plan for reconstuction if Abraham Lincoln would have lived to see it through?
The 10% Plan
This was the largest battle of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
Admitted Missouri to the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state, while banning slavery from the lands north of the 36º 30' parallel.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This Amendment gave all men the right to vote.
What is 15th Amendment?
This place is where General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant, and ended the Civil War.
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
This was the name for Southerners that assisted the North during Reconstruction.
What are Scalawags?
The name for Northerners who moved to the South during Reconstruction.
What are Carpet Baggers?