Reconstruction
African Americans exercised their rights during Reconstruction by doing this
What is buying land, running for political offices, voting, building schools and churches
This state was admitted as a free state under the Compromise
What is California?
The 11 states that seceded away from the North after Lincoln's election
What are the Confederacy or the Confederate States of America?
Granted citizenship & equal protection of the law to all Americans no matter race, gender, etc
Wrote the Emancipation Proclamation
Who is Lincoln?
Laws that restricted African Americans
What are the Black Codes?
An act passed that forced Northern Americans to return runaway enslaved people back to the South
Lincoln suspended this during the Civil War and named a need to keep the Union safe as the reason why
What is Habeas Corpus?
African American men were given the right to vote
What is the 15th Amendment?
Government agency tasked with overseeing Reconstruction and helping African Americans transition to freedom
What is the Freedom's Bureau ?
This racist group used violence and intimidation to keep African Americans in the South in a bad way
What is Washington DC?
Had a larger population, had more factories to make supplies, had more farmland, and had better transportation.
Fighting an offensive war with army generals that were less skilled than the other side
What is the Union?
Had a cavat that a person could be enslaved if they were convicted and imprisoned
What is the 13th Amendment?
Ruling that that segregation does not violate the Constitution
What is Plessy V Ferguson?
This law allowed anyone with a white grandfather to be allowed to vote without any restricitons
Popular Sovereignty was used to decide the issue of slavery in these two new territories
What is Utah and New Mexico?
Allowed black men to join the union army and made the Union goal of the Civil War ending slavery
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Southern states used poll taxes and literacy tests to get around this amendment.
What is the 15th Amendment ?
Led a raid on Harper's Ferry
Who is John Brown?
These are the reasons that Reconstruction ended in 1877
What are:
The economic recession
Northern decline in commitment to African Americans
White Southern Resistance
Agreement that it would end if Hayes was elected president
This act was known as the reason that the Compromise of 1850 ultimately failed
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Judgment that only Congress could suspend habeas corpus
The 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments together are often called this because they expanded rights after the Civil War.
What are the Reconstruction Amendments?
Court Ruling that African Americans can’t be citizens & Congress can’t abolish slavery
What is Scott v Standford?