Key Figures
Led the abolitionists newspapers
Frederick Douglass or William Loyde Garrison
This compromise brought California in as a Free State
Compromise of 1850
The first shots of the American Civil War were fired here.
Fort Sumter
This plan initiated the Freedmen's Bureau to support African Americans in the South and brough in a 10% plan for states to rejoin the union.
Lincoln's Plan
This form of farming kept people in poverty in an endless cycle of debt.
Sharecropping
Became the leader of a anti slavery massacre in Kansas.
Who is John Brown
This law helped fuel the Abolitionist Movement due to northerners having to arrest and return individuals who may have once been in servitude.
The Fugitive Slave Law
Formed the Confederacy or seceded.
What does the 14th Amendment do?
Equal protection under the law and citizenship if born in America
KKK
The President that made the Mexican American War Happen, and gained that huge swath of Western Lands.
President Polk
This Supreme Court Decision helped cause the Civil War, due saying slavery could be anywhere and African Americans were not citizens
The Dred Scott Case
Lincoln issued this to change the course of the war and make the Civil War explicitly about ending slavery in the South.
The Emancipation Proclamation
These state laws set in while Johnson was still president and triggered the Congressional Reconstruction Plan.
The name of the segregation laws that were a loophole to the 14th Amendment
Jim Crow Laws
The second Vice President to Lincoln, turned President after the murder of Lincoln.
President Johnson
This group helped form the Republican Party due to their stance against slavery. They were not moral abolitionists, but against having to compete with enslaved people for work.
The Free Soilers
This battle was a turning point of the Civil War, when Lee struck north into Pennsylvania, but ultimately the Confederacy lost.
Men of color in America, regardless of previous history of slavery can vote.
Plessy v. Ferguson.
The leader of the Radical Republicans who saw through the passage of the 14th and 15th Amendment
Thaddeus Stevens
This was Stephen Douglass's idea to avoid Civil War. It was put in place in the Kansas Nebraska Act. It would change how a state chose to permit slavery.
Popular Sovereignty
Name three advantages the North held over the South during the Civil War
More men, amo, factories, capital, banks, railroad, resources
The Congressional Plan's military districts and occupation were called
The Bayonet Rule
The President who ended Reconstruction
President Hayes