Vocab
to leave the union
What is secession/to secede?
This made it legal for slave owners to go after and capture runaway slaves
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
These laws legalized segregation in the South
What are Jim Crow Laws?
This side of the Civil War had a far bigger population, better infrastructure and organization.
What is the Union, United States, or the North?
this confederate general is viewed as the figurehead of the early Ku Klux Klan
Who is Nathan Bedford Forrest?
a term that means "to set free"
What is emancipation/to emancipate?
Famously said "A house divided against itself cannot stand", when referring to the need to keep the Union together
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The Supreme Court case where it was determined that slaves are not citizens
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
This extended the rights of citizenship to African-Americans. It includes equal rights and due process, regardless of the individual, if they are a US Citizen
What is the 14th Amendment?
With key wins at Vicksburg and New Orleans, this Union strategy focused on control of the Mississippi River and water access to cut off the Confederacy.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
The site where John Brown staged his raid on a US Weapons depot, helping to trigger the Civil War
What is Harper's Ferry, VA?
Two Parts:A Southerner who supported the Radical Reconstruction plan of the South/Northerner who moved south to take advantage of southern chaos
What is a scalawag/carpetbagger?
2 Parts: An act that left slavery concerns up to the popular vote, and the violent nickname it led to
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act/ "Bleeding Kansas"?
This group wanted to make sure the South accepted that slavery was over & that former slaves were free, safe & could make an honest living
What are Radical Republicans?
2 Parts: The nicknames used for soldiers on the Union and Confederate sides of the Civil War.
What are the Yankees & the Rebels?
Alongside Hiram Revels, her was one of the first two African-American US Senators
Who is (Blanche) Bruce?
The concept that states should be able to decide how they feel about the issue of slavery
What is popular sovereignty?
Two Parts: The act that symbolically ended slavery in the South & the one that actually did
What are the Emancipation Proclamation & the 13th Amendment?
Organization that was supposed to provide emergency aid to the post-war South, helping whites and blacks alike
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
These two battles were the bloodiest single day of the Civil War and the war's turning point
What are Antietam & Gettysburg?
This release is credited with bringing back the KKK when it had nearly died out
What is "Birth of a Nation"?
Two Parts:poor farmers who rented land from a landowner and paid rent with their harvest / the separation of people, often by race
What is sharecropping/ segregation?
These US Senators were involved in violence (caning) on the Senate Floor over slavery issues.
Who are Sumner & Brooks (Sumner-Brooks Affair)?
These 3 aspects prevented African-American suffrage in The Black Codes
What are literacy tests, poll taxes & the grandfather clause?
Violating this nearly got Andrew Johnson impeached by both houses of congress
What is the Tenure of Office Act?
3 Parts: The first shots of the Civil War occurred at ________ in the state of ____________ after CSA Leader ____________ would not allow Lincoln to send in food and aid to Union soldiers.
What are Fort Sumter, South Carolina and who is Jefferson Davis?
His involvement in this put Abraham Lincoln on the map, helping giving him name recognition that helped him win the Presidency
What are the Lincoln-Douglas debates?
2 Parts: Plessy vs Ferguson allowed segregation, assuming the concept of ____________was followed. This continued until the decade of ___________
What are "Seperate But Equal" and the 1960's?
2 Parts, 4 names: Two men who killed in the name of abolishing slavery and two military leaders in the Civil War.
2 Parts: 2 Things Guaranteed by the 14th Amendment for all citizens - meant initially for African-Americans, but now covers every American
What are Equal Protection & Due Process?
This was a plan proposed by Lincoln to allow Southern States to return to the US, seemed too weak by Radical Republicans, and what Johnson proposed instead.
What are the 10% Plan and allowing southern governments to be ran by Confederate leaders with no black suffrage or representation?
3 Parts: This site marked the end of the Civil War with a surrender, where these two men were present.
What is Appomattox Courthouse and who are Grant, Lee, or Sherman?
2 Parts: This banned slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War or in the future & was supported by this group.
What is the Wilmot Proviso and the Republican Party?