Series of measures that were intended to settle the disagreements between free states and slave states
What is the Compromise of 1850
100
President of the Confederate States of America
Who is Jefferson Davis
100
Time period following the Civil War, when the Southern States were reorganized and reintegrated
back into the Union.
What is Reconstruction
100
Laws enacted in many Southern states that discriminated against African Americans
What are Black Codes
100
Legal process to formally charge the president with misconduct in office
What is Impeach
200
Idea that people living in a territory should make their own
decisions, especially the decision to admit slavery
What is Popular Svereignty
200
Formed in 1861 by the Southern states
that seceded from the Union
What is the Confederacy
200
One of the Congressional Republicans who wanted to destroy the political power of slaveholders and to give African Americans citizenship and the right to vote
What is a Radical Republican
200
Gave African Americans citizenship
What is the 14th Amendment
200
Northerner who moved to the South after the war
What is a Carpetbagger
300
Decision by a state to leave the Union
What is Secession
300
Order issued by Lincoln freeing slaves behind
Confederate lines
What is the Emancipation Proclomation
300
This presidential plan was very lenient on the South, and its goal was to reunite the South quickly again with the union
What is Lincoln's 10% Plan
300
Banned states from denying African Americans the right to vote
What is the 15th Amendment
300
Renting land from landowners for cash
What is Tenant Farming
400
Law that split Nebraska into the territories of Nebraska and
Kansas and allowed for popular sovereignty there
What is Kansas-Nebraska Act
400
Abolished slavery everywhere in the United States
What is the 13th Amendment
400
Bill passed by Congress, and vetoed by President Lincoln, that would have given Congress control of Reconstruction
What is the Wade-Davis Bill
400
System in which landowners leased a few acres of land to farmworkers in return for a portion of their crops
What is Sharecropping
400
Terrorist group of white Southerners who used violence to keep blacks from voting
What is the KKK
500
The election of this president was an immediate cause of the Civil War
What is the election of Abraham Lincoln
500
This was Lincoln's primary objective during the Civil War
What is the preservation of the Union
500
Government agency that helped former slaves and poor whites by giving out food and clothing and by setting up schools and hospitals
What is the Freedmen's Bureau
500
The political deal that gave the presidency to Hayes and ended Reconstruction
What is the Compromise of 1877
500
President after Lincoln’s assassination, who was at constant odds with congress over Reconstruction plans, and he was almost impeached