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?
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?
This document that Lincoln wrote changed the Civil War from States Rights to Human Rights.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Explain the two parts of Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan.
10% pledge allegiance within the state and they rewrite the state constitution.
Constitutional amendment that granted freedom to all Americans who suffered involuntary servitude.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Supreme Court ruling that declared slaves were not citizens of the United States.
What is the Dred Scott Case?
Terrorist organization created to intimidate and prevent freedmen and Republicans from gaining political power in the South.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
The General who is famous for his "March to the Sea"
Who is William T. Sherman?
The Constitutional amendment overturned the Dred Scott decision.
What is the The 14th Amendment?
What is it called when a region believes its needs are more important thatn the nation's needs.
Sectionalism
What was the first state to secede?
South Carolina
Agency set up to start schools, churches, supply food, and clothing for former slaves and poor whites.
What is Freedmen's Bureau?
A law that made northern states return any slaves that escaped from the South.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
He was appointed President after the President before him was assasinated by John Wilks Booth.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This plan was seen as to lenient on the South because all they had to do is apologize to the Union and they were off the hook.
What is the Johnson Plan?
What was the Union strategy during the Civil War which incorporated a plan to blockade Southern ports, capture the Mississippi River and capture the railroads?
Anaconda Plan?
What was the first part of Reconstruction that the government of the U.S. put in place in the South?
Military districts
Who was the General for the Confederates that held his ground during the Battle of Bull Run and inspired the troops?
Stonewall Jackson
What group would not let congressmen from the South return to the Congressional assembly?
Radical Republicans