People
These were the names of the North and the South during the war
Union and Confederacy
That slavery was abolished
What did the 13th Amendment State?
This was the most important agricultural product during the civil war
Cotton
The separation of black people and white people was called this
Segregation
This was the central cause of the American Civil War
Slavery
Stephen Austin led settlers into this region of Mexico
Texas
This man became President after Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
It gave African Americans the right to vote
What did the 15 Amendment state?
This group helped African Americans get on their feet once they were no longer enslaved
Freedmen's Bureau
Draft to serve in army
Conscription
The capital of the Confederate States
Richmond, VA
This war started after the rio grande border dispute and Polk's war message
Mexican American War
Committed to the emancipation of the slaves and later to the equal treatment and enfranchisement of the freed blacks
Radical Republican
These laws enforced segregation
Jim Crow Laws
The document which declared that all enslaved people in the Confederate states were free
Emancipation Proclamation
A person who wants to stop or abolish slavery
Abolitionist
This three-day battle crippled the South is considered the turning point of the war
Battle of Gettysburg
Double Jeopardy
This was the proposed solution to determine slavery in Kansas following the Kansas Nebraska Act
Popular Sovreignty
Led the compromise of 1850 and lost every attempt to become president
Henry Clay
These were laws passed during Reconstruction to limit the freedoms of African Americans.
Black Codes
This was a hate group that formed during Reconstruction that inflicted terror on African Americans
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
Double Jeopardy
This was an unfair system where landowners allowed formally enslaved people to use land to grow crops. But they had to sell 2/3 of the crops back at the end of the harvest. Most ended in debt.
Sharecropping
Name three advantages the North had during the war
More railroads, more troops, better technology, more factories (industrialization)
the Supreme Court opinion that excluded African-Americans from citizenship rights in the United States (1857)
What is the Dredd Scott v Sanford Supreme court decision?
She Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
That every man born in the U.S. was a citizen (except Native Americans)
What did the 14th Amendment state?
Double Jeopardy
The landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision ruling that "separate but equal" was constitutional
Plessy v. Ferguson
The following is a formal withdrawal of states or regions from a nation
Secession
The Union military strategy to create a blockade so that products couldn’t get in or out of the South
Anaconda Plan
a short-lived political party in the United States active from 1848 to 1854, that later merged into the Republican Party
What is the Free Soil Party?
He was an abolitionist that demanded the immediate freedom of slaves and was the editor of the liberator.
William Lloyd Garrison
This law allowed government officials to arrest anyone suspected of being a runaway slave
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
Exam for assessing a person's ability to read and write. Were used to disqualify blacks from voting
Literacy tests
Maintained the balance of slave and free states
The Missouri Compromise
The site of the surrender of the Confederate Army leader to the Union commander
Appomattox Courthouse
1849, California
What is the gold rush?