Election of 1860 and Secession
He won the election of 1860.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This amendment established birthright citizenship and that the states had to provide citizens with equal protection of the laws and due process.
What is the 14th amendment?
This was a White secret society that burned down Black owned buildings and flogged and murdered thousands of freedmen.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
The first major battle of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Bull Run?
The place where Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
What is Ford’s Theatre?
Led the raid of Harper’s Ferry in an attempt to arm Virginia’s enslaved people to revolt against their owners.
Who is John Brown?
This report said that Congress had the right to determine the conditions for allowing reconstructed states to join the Union as reorganized Confederate states were not entitled to representation.
What is the report of the joint committee?
This system, where landlords provided seed and needed farm supplies in exchange for half of the harvest, made people dependent on landowners.
What is sharecropping?
This was the name of the Confederate general during the Civil War.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
Abraham Lincoln issued this, which freed all enslaved persons in the states then at war. He justified this as a military strategy.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
The first federal fort in the southern territory to be taken over by the Confederacy
What is Fort Sumter?
These acts, passed despite Johnson’s vetoes, placed the South under military occupation and increased the requirements for them to rejoin the Union.
What are the Reconstruction Acts of 1867?
This removed the last restrictions on ex-Confederates, allowing Southern conservatives to vote for Democrats and retake control of state governments.
What is the Amnesty Act?
These two battles marked a turning point in the Civil War, with the Confederacy suffering two defeats.
What is Vicksburg and Gettysburg?
This political party called for the immediate abolition of slavery.
What are the Republicans?
The Border States (Slave holding states that didn’t join the Confederacy).
What are Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware, and Missouri?
This law, which prohibited the president from removing a federal official or military commander without Senate approval, led to Johnson’s impeachment after he dismissed Secretary of War: Edwin Stanton.
What is the Tenure of Office Act?
Congress passed this to give federal authorities the ability to stop Ku Klux Klan violence and protect the civil rights of citizens.
What is the Force Act?
This veteran general set out from Chattanooga, Tennessee, on a campaign of deliberate destruction that went across the state of Georgia, and then swept north into South Carolina with a force of 100,000 men. He was a pioneer of the tactics of total war.
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?
In this famous speech, Lincoln rallied Americans to the idea that their nation was “dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
What is the Gettysburg Address?
The name of the 4th political party in the election of 1860, to preserve the Union
Who is the Constitutional Union Party?
This was passed after Ulysses S. Grant’s slight win during the 1868 presidential election, when Congress realized it needed to secure African American votes due to them giving him 500,000 votes, after which they insured a citizen’s right to vote regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This deal was made after the election 1876 and it ended federal support for Republicans in the South and supported the building of a Southern transcontinental railroad in exchange for the Democrats allowing Hayes to become president after the highly contested election.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This was the place where the Confederacy ultimately surrendered to the Union. (April 9, 1865).
What is Appomattox Court House? (Virginia)?
These Acts passed by congress gave the Union the power to seize enemy property, and freed persons enslaved by any individual in rebellion in the US.
What are the Confiscation Acts?