Presidents
Winner of the Presidential Election of 1860.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Who is John Brown?
Victory in this war added significant territory to the United States, including California, Arizona, and New Mexico.
What are black codes?
Movement to end slavery in the United States.
What is the abolitionist movement?
Union General who became president after the Civil War.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
Political doctrine stating that the people of federal territories should decide for themselves whether their territories would allow slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
Constitutional amendment that stated that no government (state or federal) could deny the right to vote based on race, ethnicity, or previous condition of servitude.
What is the 15th Amendment?
City where the Draft Riots of 1863 took place.
What is New York City?
President of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
Bloody conflict in 1854 involving pro slavery "border ruffians" and antislavery settlers.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
Ultimatum given to the South: If they surrendered by January 1 1863, they could keep their slaves. If they did not surrender, their slaves were considered free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Organization that helped former slaves and poor whites find jobs and housing, and provided food and clothing during the Reconstruction period.
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
National third-party (political party) that formed in order to stop the extension of slavery into the western territories.
What is the Free Soil Party?
President who was impeached during the Reconstruction Era.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
Who is Henry Clay?
Union military strategy proposed in 1861 to win the Civil War by "strangling" the Confederacy. It focused on blockading Southern ports and controlling the Mississippi River to split the South.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
1864 proposed bill that would require 50% of a state's voters to take an oath of loyalty for readmission into he Union (it was pocket-vetoed by Abraham Lincoln).
What is the Wade-Davis Bill?
Agricultural system where a portion of the harvest is traded in return for the right to work on someone else's land; this system kept poor farmers in a state of near slavery and debt.
What is sharecropping?
The election of this president resulted from the Compromise of 1877, where the disputed presidential election was resolved by making a deal to remove Union troops from the South.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
Describe THREE parts of the Compromise of 1850.
1. California is entered as a free state.
2. The slave trade is abolished in Washington, DC.
3. The remaining territories gained from the Mexican American War would incorporate popular sovereignty.
4. A stricter fugitive slave law was passed.
During the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln suspended this right to imprison Confederate sympathizers without trial, highlighting the conflict between executive power, national security, and civil liberties.
What is habeas corpus?
People from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction.
Who are carpetbaggers?
Proposed amendment to ban slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico during the Mexican-American War. It passed the House, it failed in the Senate, highlighting the divisive issue of slavery's expansion in the lead up to the Civil War.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?