Antebellum Era
The invention that increased cotton production leading to a growth in slavery. It separates seeds from cotton when it was done by hand before.
Cotton Gin
This president was elected in 1860 and led The Union during The Civil War
Abraham Lincoln
They won the Civil War
The Union
Slavery lasted about this many years
250
The deepest legacy of slavery(according to reconstruction experts)
Racism
1820 compromise which made the north free states and the south slave states.
Missouri Compromise
After his death, the South mourned this general like he was a king
Robert E Lee
The first shots of The Civil War were fired here
Fort Sumter
The amendment saying all people born in The United States are citizens
14th Amendment
Group formed in 1866 that was violent towards Black Americans
KKK
During the Antebellum era, cities in the North were more connected with plantations in the South because of this invention.
Railroads
This leader was the most famous and possibly the strongest general for the Union. He became president a few years after The Civil War.
US Grant
In this year The Civil War ended.
1865
The amendment that abolished slavery
13th Amendment
Racist laws named after a famous blackface character
Jim Crow Laws
This compromise tried to fix multiple problems between the free states and the slave states. It created a new Fugitive Slave Act, banned the slave trade in Washington D.C. and made California a free state.
Compromise of 1850
This Union general was extremely cautious, sometimes considered too cautious to be an effective leader during The Civil War
George McClellan
In 1963, Lincoln made this order saying that all Confederate slaves were free
The Emancipation Proclamation
The amendment states that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
15th Amendment
The system where black farmers rented land and tools in exchange for crops and expensive loans. In many of these instances having to work for previous slaveowners.
Sharecropping
This law required citizens in the north to help capture runaway slaves. It made it possible for free Black Americans to be captured in the North and sent into slavery.
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
This General led The Union to victory in Atlanta
William Sherman
The South thought this nation would help them in the war because this nation was reliant on the cotton industry
Britain
The two main ways southern states prevented Black Americans from going to the polls.
Poll Taxes and Literacy Tests
Supreme Court decision that said segregation was constitutional, supporting the idea "separate but equal"
Plessy v. Ferguson