Pre-Civil War
What is manifest destiny?
These were the names for the North and the South during the Civil War.
What are the Union and the Confederacy?
Which three amendments are known as the Reconstruction Amendments?
What were the 13th, 14th, and 15th?
This act caused many African Americans to flee to Canada.
What was The Fugitive Slave Act?
This act given by Lincoln declared all slaves in the confederate states free.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
These laws applied only to African Americans and drastically limited their rights in society.
What were Black Codes?
This act caused abolitionists and slave owners to rush to Kansas to vote.
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This system was created in the south to provide workers for plantation owners after the Civil War.
What is sharecropping?
This policy was written to prevent further European colonization in the Caribbean region.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This was Lincoln's justification for the Civil War.
What was preserving the Union?
These two stipulations were created to limit the number of African Americans eligible to vote.
What were literacy tests and poll taxes?
This court case declared that African Americans were considered property and not citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This was a cause for economic growth in the North during the Civil War.
What is a demand for products?
This agency was started by congress to protect the rights of African Americans during Reconstruction.
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?