Lincoln
Lincolns political party
Republican
36 30 Parallels, admitted Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state
Missouri Compromise
Increased ________________ between the north and the south
Sectionalism
Former slaves have the right to vote (Men)
15 Amendment
three plans for reconstruction
Lincolns, Radical Republicans, Johnsons plan
Written by Lincoln, only freed slaves in rebelling states
Emancipation Proclamation
Allowed for the territory in Kansas and Nebraska to use Popular Sovereignty
Kansas- Nebraska Act
Election of this president causes the first southern states to secede
Abolished Slavery
13th Amendment
Derogatory Term for white southerners who supported the republican party and freedmen
Scalawag
Assisnated Lincoln
John Wilks Booth
Act in the Compromise of 1850 that required citizens to return escaped slaves
Fugitive Slave Act
Term for allowing slavery to be decided in territories by the people
Popular Sovereignty
Former Slaves are now Citizens
14th Amendment
Book that showed the horrors of slavery
Uncle Toms Cabin
Lincolns goal of the Civil War
Reunite the union
New Mexico and Utah are up to popular sovereignty, Cali is admitted as a free state, Fugitive Slave Act
State and Federal
authorized the President to break up reservation land, which was held in common by the members of a tribe, into small allotments to be parceled out to individuals
The Dawes Act
Created to help newly freed slaves to join society, gave food, shelter, created schools
Freedmen's Bureau
Lincoln suspended this during the Civil War, allowing for you to be thrown in jail without a trial
Writ of Habeas Corpus
Court Case that ruled the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional
Dred Scott v Sanford
First act of violence between the states leading to the civil war over the issue of slavery
Bleeding Kansas
Split the south up into 5 military districts that would be controlled by Union military generals
Reconstruction Act
Name of Ms. Patterson's Kitten
MR. MOOSE