Causes of Civil War
States above the 36 30 line are free states, and those below the line are slave states
Missouri Compromise
Lincoln's purpose for going to war with the South
preserve the Union
Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan
10% Plan
This Industrialist was created an empire
In the Oil industry and used Horizontal,
And Vertical Integration along with
Trusts.
John D. Rockefeller
Journalists who investigated the living and working conditions in the late 1800s
muckrakers
This is the name for the fighting in
Kansas before the Civil War between
Pro-slavery and Abolitionists forces.
Bleeding Kansas
This was issued by Lincoln which
Freed all slaves in areas still in
Rebellion against the Union (North).
(after the battle of Antietam)
Emancipation Proclamation
Laws passed during Reconstruction to limit the rights of newly freedmen after
Black Codes
This was built to connect the eastern. And western US, make transportation Faster, and give factories access to raw Materials and markets. It also led to the Time zones.
Transcontinental Railroad
This is the name for an organization thatControlled city politics through bribes and Intimidation. The most famous was Tammany Hall led by Boss Tweed.
Political Machine
This settlement would declare California as a free state based off of popular sovereignty and create a stronger fugitive slave law.
Compromise of 1850
This is the name for the Northern strategies for Fighting the Civil which included a blockade. And controlling the Mississippi River.
Anaconda Plan
Laws passed after Reconstruction legalizing segregation
Jim Crow Laws
The laissez-fair (hands off) policies of the government in the late 1800s led to the creation of these in business. There is only one producer of a good and prices are set high.
Monopolies
This banned Chinese immigrants and prevented Chinese in America to become citizens
Chinese Exclusion Act
This Supreme Court case stated that
Congress could not limit slavery in
The territories because slaves were
Property. It accelerated the start of the
Civil War.
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
This was the last time the South tried to invade the North
Battle of Gettysburg
This was established after the Civil
War (during reconstruction) to help
Freed slaves find their families, get
Education, food, jobs, and land.
Freedman’s Bureau
Known for using ruthless tactics to take out their competition, greedy and corrupt
Robber Barons
Author who wrote the Jungle exposing the horrible practices of the Meat Packing Industry
Upton Sinclaire
What event led South Carolina to secede from the Union?
The election of Abraham Lincoln
This battle divided the Confederacy in half and gained control of the Mississippi River.
Battle of Vicksburg
Gave all African American males the right to vote
15th Amendment
The idea held in the late 1800s among businessmen that said the rich were rich Because they were better (survival of the fittest)
Social Darwinism
Groups of laborers who banned together to form these to fight for better working conditions, wages, and hours. Were seen as anarchists and socialists
Labor Unions