Lead up to the War
Introduced Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state
All future states would be limited to their status on slavery; all new states in the Louisiana Territory north of the southern border of Missouri had to be free, closed to slavery
The Missouri Compromise
The Union hoped to "squeeze" the Confederacy into surrender.
The Anaconda Plan
Abraham Lincoln's plan for reconstruction
To rebuild as quickly
Social organization established by former Confederate soldiers
The KKK
Statutes, beginning in the 1890s, that required the segregation of public services and facilities by race.
Jim Crow
During the Mexican War, Representative David Wilmot of Pennsylvania proposed that the United States assert that any territories won from Mexico be "free soil" [Areas not open to slavery]
Wilmot Proviso
-Issued by President Lincoln, effective January 1, 1863, freeing all slaves in Confederate held territory.
The Emancipation Proclamation
Negative Term used to describe northern Republicans who moved to the South after the Civil War.
Carpetbaggers
Created by Congress in 1865 as a federal relief agency that provided services to both blacks and whites displaced by the Civil War.
The Freedman's Bureau
The Supreme Court held that segregation was legal as long as separate facitilities for blacks were equal to those provided to whites.
Plessy v. Ferguson
This legislation called for the creation of the Kansas and Nebraska territories, citizens in each territory would decide whether slavery would or would not be allowed.
The Kansas- Nebraska Act
After the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation, nearly 180,000 African Americans enlisted in the _______ Army.
Union
Negative Term used to describe the white southern Republicans after the Civil War.
Scalawag
To charge a public official with wrongdoing
Impeach
This law exempted a person from obeying voting restriction laws if they met certain conditions before the law was passed.
Grandfather Clause
Brown had hoped to seize these weapons and give them to enslaved peoples to start an uprising.
John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry
The first major battle of the Civil War.
Bull Run/Manasas
As Reconstruction came to an end, the federal government ___________ their role as protector of the South, thus impacting the rights of African Americans.
abandoned
What are the Reconstruction Amendments?
13th, 14th, and 15th
The goal of this organization was to abolish segregation and discrimination, to oppose racism, and to gain civil rights for African Americans.
NAACP
The Supreme Court ruled that slaves were not citizens, therefore they did not have the right to sue.
The Dred Scott Case
(April 1865) with few soldiers left to fight for the cause, General Lee and his troops were forced to surrender to the Union forces.
Appomattax Court House
Ended all Slavery in the United States
the 13th Amendment
System of farming in which a farmer tends some portion of a planter's land and receives a share of the crop at harvest time as payment.
Sharecropping
Booker T. Washington