Economy & Society During the War
African American Experiences
Court Cases and Constitutional Change
Failures and Limits
History Potpourri
200

Northern economic strength surged due to industrial production and this new income policy.

The Income Tax

200

This famous regiment demonstrated the bravery of Black Union soldiers.

54th Massachusetts

200

This amendment guaranteed Black male suffrage.

15th Amendment

200

Sharecropping kept African Americans in this economic condition.

Debt peonage or poverty

200

This 1776 document argued that governments derive “their just powers from the consent of the governed.”

Declaration of Independence

400

The Confederacy struggled economically especially after this Union naval strategy took effect.

The Anaconda Plan

400

After the Civil War some freed blacks looked to the west for free land thanks to this 1862 Act. 

Homestead Act

400

This Supreme Court decision upheld segregated facilities as “separate but equal.”

Plessey v. Ferguson

400

These agreements often forced Black laborers to stay with employers under threat of arrest.

Labor contracts

400

This 1820 agreement temporarily settled the slavery issue by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.

Compromise of 1820 (Missouri)

600

This national currency, printed during the war, helped fund Union operations.

Greenbacks

600

Congress passed this legislation enacting reconstruction in 1867

Reconstruction Act of 1867

600

This 1866 law (later overridden after Johnson’s veto) defined citizenship regardless of race.

Civil Rights Act of 1866

600

The Panic of 1873 shifted national attention away from Reconstruction toward this issue.

Economic depression

600

This 1845 phrase, coined by journalist John L. O’Sullivan, justified U.S. territorial expansion.

Manifest Destiny

800

Inflation became extreme in the South due to this key wartime shortage.

Food

800

This Southern terror organization used violence and intimidation to restricts African American rights.

Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

800

Lincoln suspended this Constitutional right during the Civil War. 

Habeas Corpus

800

This election's dispute over electoral votes would ultimately lead to the end of Reconstruction.

Election of 1876

800

This 1832–33 conflict, involving South Carolina’s resistance to federal tariffs, tested the balance between state and federal power.

The Nullification Crisis

1000

The rise of ________ shifted in the North labor from farms to factories.

Industrialization

1000

These 1865 letters between a freedman and his former enslaver highlighted demands for wages and dignity.

Jourdan Anderson letters.

1000

Besides citizenship, what right is protected by the 14th Amendment

Due Process 

1000

With the end of Reconstructions, Southern states begin passing these laws restricting rights of African Americans.

Jim Crow Laws

1000

This 1848 meeting in New York produced a declaration demanding women’s rights, modeled closely on the Declaration of Independence.

The Seneca Falls Convention

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