Causes of the Civil war
This 1860 event causes Southern states to fear limits on slavery.
What is the election of Abraham Lincoln?
Abolished slavery in the U.S.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Period from 1865-1877 when the U.S. rebuilt the south.
What is Reconstruction?
This idea said the United States was destined to spread across the continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This term describes the U.S. Government's plan to absorb Native Americans into white culture and society.
What is assimilation?
Law requiring runaway enslaved people to be returned to their owners.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
Guaranteed citizenship and equal protection under the law.
What is the 14th amendment?
Lincoln's plan required this percent of voters to pledge loyalty.
What is 10 percent plan?
This 1862 act gave free land to settlers who farmed it for at least five years, spurring migration to the west.
Government-run schools that aimed to erase Native cultures and languages by forcing children to live away from their families.
What are Indian Boarding Schools?
Violent 1850's conflict over slavery in a western territory.
What is "Bleeding Kansas"?
Gave African American men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Laws passed to limit the rights of freedpeople after the war.
What are black code?
Completed in 1869, this engineering feat linked the East and West by rail, making travel across the country much faster.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
U.S. policy confined Native Americans to these designated lands, often breaking earlier treaties and reducing their territory each time new settlers moved west.
What is Reservations?
Supreme Court case ruling that African Americans were not citizens.
What is Dred Scott vs. Sandford?
Group of Republicans who wanted harsh punishment for the south.
Who were the Radical Repulicans?
Also passes in 1862, this act gave federal land to states to create agricultural and mechanical colleges.
What is the Morrill Act?
This act gave each male Indian can claim 160 acres of reservation land as his own private property. If you claimed this land, you were granted citizenship and voting rights.
What is the Dawes Act?
This idea allowed settlers to vote on slavery in new territories.
What is popular sovereignty?
The Supreme Court case in 1896 ruled that "seperate by equal" facilities were legal, allowing segregation to continue for decades.
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?
This U.S. president was impeached in 1868 after clashing with Congress over Reconstruction policies, but the Senate fell short of removing him from office.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This 1854 law allowed settlers in Kansas and Nebraska to vote on slavery, sparking violent conflict.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This was the belief of "Survival of the Fittest".
What is Social Darwinism?