Compromises
What was the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?
The law made it easier to track down and capture runaway (fugitive) slaves who escaped to the North and return them to their Southern owners
Define Suffrage
right to vote
What was the first state to secede from the Union?
South Carolina
Who won the Election of 1860? What was their political party?
Abraham Lincoln - Republican Party
What is the KKK?
An american terrorist group whose goal is white supremecy.
What states were given the rights of popular sovereignty during the Compromise of 1850?
Utah and New Mexico
What was the goal of the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments?
to emphasize the need for womens right to vote
Who was the president of the Confederate States of America?
Jefferson Davis
Alexander Stephens - VP
Which amendment guaranteed citizenship to all people born in the United States?
14th
What was the purpose of the Black Codes?
to prevent newly feed blacks from gaining their rights
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
- Popular Sovereignty would be used to decide if slavery would be allowed in the Kansas and Nebraska territories.
- (The Missouri Compromise had previously forbidden slavery in these territories)
What was John Brown's Raid of Harper's Ferry?
John Brown, his sons, and former slaves attacked the federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry. Brown wanted to use the arsenal’s weapons to arm Virginia slaves to revolt against their owners.
Federal troops defeated the revolt. Captured raiders including John Brown were put on trial and executed by hanging.
Describe the significance of the naval blockade
prevented confederacy from trading
What was the Freedmans Bureau?
-A government agency created with the intention to aid the newly freed population in the south.
Its mission expanded to include duties such as education and employment of the newly freed population.
Define sharecropping
System in which plantation owners allowed Blacks to rent land in return for a share of the crop as payment
The Missouri Compromise added Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state. It also established the 36'30 line. Describe the significance of this
What was the temperance movement?
the movement to ban the use of alcohol
What was a "border state" as it relates to the Civil War?
BONUS: if you can name all 5 as of 1863
State still in the union but were pro slavery
Maryland, Missouri, Kentucky, Delaware, and in 1863, West Virginia
What was Lincolns 10% plan?
The plan was that a state would be readmitted when 10 % of its (1860 voting) population had taken an oath of allegiance to the Union and accepted the end of slavery.
Explain the outcome of Plessy vs Ferguson
"separate but equal" is legal as long as it is provides equal opportunity
Describe how the Kansas Nebraska Act lead to Bleeding Kansas
what were the goals of the antebellum social reform movements?
to improve conditions for many groups.
Please name one leader of the Union Army and one leader of the Confederate Army.
Union: Grant, Sherman, McClellan, Ambrose, Meade, Winfield Scott, etc.
Confederate: Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Johnston, Beauregard, etc.
- A group of the Republican party that sought to impose a harsh version of Reconstruction over the former Confederate states following the Civil War.
- They were also very supportive of establishing and protecting the civil and voting rights of the newly freed Black population of the south.
How did the Bargain of 1877 end Reconstruction?
It took federal troops out of the South thus allowing southern racists to run their states as they'd like