Causes and Rising Tensions
This election caused several Southern states to secede from the Union
Election of 1860
This side of the Civil War had a bigger cultural tradition revolving around the military, and had more prestigious military commanders
The Confederates / The South
These Southern laws were written to control and limit the rights of newly freed African Americans directly after the Civil War
Black Codes
This white supremacist group used fear and violence to stop African Americans from gaining rights
KKK
These three amendments together are known for expanding rights during Reconstruction
Amendments 13, 14, & 15
This 1820 agreement tried to keep a balance between free states and slave states
Missouri Compromise
The first shots of the Civil War were fired during this event
Battle of Fort Sumter
This order by President Lincoln declared enslaved people in rebelling states to be free
Emancipation Proclamation
These state and local laws enforced racial segregation after Reconstruction had ended
Jim Crow Laws
This event before the Civil War that brought the legal decision that African-Americans were not citizens, and slaves were purely property.
The Dred Scott Decision
This law forced people in free states to return escaped slaves to slave owners
Fugitive Slave Act
This man became the leading general of the Union Army after success in the Wester Theater of the War, and later accepted the surrender at Appomattox COurthouse
Ulysses S. Grant
This amendment officially abolished slavery in the United States
Amendment 13
This farming system kept many freedmen trapped in debt while working land they did not own
Sharecropping & Tenet Farming
This Court Case made segregation legal in the United States
Plessy v Ferguson
This violent action was led by John Brown when he attempted to seize weapons and start a slave uprising
Raid on Harpers Ferry
He was the leader of the Army of Virginia, & main general of the Confederate Army
Robert E. Lee
This law placed able bodied men into a pool to be drafted into the Union Army
Conscription Act (of 1863)
This amendment granted citizenship and promised equal protection under the law
14th Amendment
This amendment protected the right to vote for African American men
15th Amendment
The idea of allowing citizens to vote on policy changes, such as whether slavery should be allowed in a new territory
Popular Sovereignty
This strategy involved destroying farms railroads and towns to break the enemy’s will
Total War
This government agency helped former slaves with food education and legal protection
Freedman's Bureau
This deadly 1873 event in Louisiana involved white mobs attacking African American office holders and voters
Colfax Massacre
This phrase used by the Supreme Court to defend Jim Crow Laws, and segregating people based on race
"Separate but Equal"