Legislation
Legislation that required the return of escaped enslaved people to their enslavers, even if they were caught in free states and required citizens to aid in the return of escaped enslaved people
What is Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 (Compromise of 1850)?
A law instituted by the Union in 1863 stating that men between the ages of 20 and 45 years of age were liable to be drafted into the military but they could pay $300 to avoid service.
What is the Conscription Act?
A bill granting full equality and citizenship to “every race and color.”
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
The idea that the residents of a region or nation decide an issue by voting.
What is popular sovereignty?
Army troops who fight on horseback.
What is calvary?
After escaping north in 1838, he became an internationally renowned orator and writer, lecturing across the world about the realities of slavery.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Violence in 1850’s Kansas as people fought over whether Kansas would be a free state or a slave state.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
A political party established in 1854 by antislavery leaders.
What is the Republican Party?
Organized the territories of Kansas and Nebraska. Introduced "popular sovereignty," allowing settlers to decide if a territory would be a free territory or allow slavery.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
An act that replaced the notes of individual banks with a unified National currency.
What is the Legal Tender Act?
Acts that put the Republican Congress in charge of Reconstruction instead of the president.
What is Reconstruction Acts of 1867/Radical Reconstruction?
A state that bordered both Union and Confederate states namely Maryland Kentucky Delaware Missouri and West Virginia.
What is a border state?
Foot soldiers.
What is infantry?
16th president of the United States, serving from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. He led the United States through the American Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
1859 attempt by abolitionist John Brown to spark an armed slave rebellion.
What is the Attack on Harper’s Ferry?
The 11 southern states that seceded from the union to form their own nation.
What is the Confederacy (Confederate States of America)?
1857 Supreme Court ruling that declared enslaved people were not citizens of the United States and that Congress could not ban slavery in federal territories.
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
Amendment that abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Amendment to the Constitution that says that federal and state governments cannot restrict the right to vote because of race color or previous condition of servitude.
What is the 15th Amendment?
An agricultural system in which a farmer raises crops for a landowner in return for part of the money made from selling the crops.
What is sharecropping?
A battle strategy that uses a system of ditches to give soldiers a protected place from which to fire during battle.
What is trench warfare?
American and Confederate soldier, best known as a commander of the Confederate States Army.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
Prior to the Civil War, confederate forces attacked this Union fort in South Carolina and forced the Union to surrender.
What is Fort Sumter?
Bureau of Refugees, Freedman, and Abandoned lands created by Congress in 1865 to help former slaves as well as poor white Southerners.
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
An 1863 document issued by Abraham Lincoln that freed all slaves living in Confederate-held territory during the American Civil War.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Amendment that guarantees citizenship to anyone born in the U.S. and ensures "equal protection" and "due process" for all people. It was designed to protect the rights of formerly enslaved people and ensure the government treats all individuals fairly.
What is the 14th Amendment?
A deal in which Democrats agreed to make Hayes president if Republicans ended reconstruction and pulled federal troops out of the South.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
Economic slavery that tied African Americans to sharecropping landlords lands.
What is Black peonage?
A military strategy during the Civil War in which the North planned to set up a blockade around the southern coast to ruin the South's economy and secure ports on the Mississippi River; much as a huge snake crushes its prey.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
Most famous for leading the Union Army to victory over the Confederacy. As a national hero, he served as the 18th U.S. President, where he championed civil rights for newly freed slaves.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
An 1863 speech delivered by President Lincoln to commemorate the loss of life at the Battle of Gettysburg and to dedicate a military cemetery there.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
The group whose purpose was to maintain the social and political power of white people; still exists today as a hate group.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
A proposal that stated the federal government would have no power to abolish slavery in the states where it already existed. It reestablished and extended the Missouri Compromise line to the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Crittenden Plan?
An act that started a program of public land grants to small farmers.
What is the Homestead Act?
One of the first official African-American units in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
What is 54th Massachusetts?
During the Civil War, she earned the nickname "Angel of the Battlefield" for independently providing food, clothing, and medical supplies to wounded soldiers. She went on to found the American Red Cross.
Who is Clara Barton?
The effort to rebuild and reunite the United States following the Civil War.
What is reconstruction?
A policy that stated Confederate states must ratify the 13th Amendment and create new governments with new constitutions before they could rejoin the Union.
What is Presidential Reconstruction?
Laws passed by Southern States immediately after the Civil War for controlling African Americans and limiting their rights repealed by reconstruction in 1866.
What are Black codes?
As the 17th president of the United States, he is best known for being the first U.S. president to be impeached and for his lenient, pro-Southern policies during the Reconstruction era following the Civil War.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
An economic crisis triggered by bank and railroad failures.
What is the Panic of 1873?