Escalating Sectionalism
This 1846 proposal attempted to ban slavery in all territory acquired from Mexico, igniting heated debates about congressional power.
What is the Wilmot Proviso
This Union plan sought to economically isolate the Confederacy and split it geographically.
What is the Anaconda Plan drafted by Winfield Scott.
This amendment constitutionally ended slavery throughout the United States.
13th Amendment
This agency provided schools, courts, and labor assistance to formerly enslaved people during early reconstruction.
Freedmen's Bureau
This system of agriculture kept freedmen and poor whites in cycles of debt and dependency due to credit arrangements with landowners.
What is sharecropping or the crop-lien system.
This Supreme Court decision invalidated the Missouri Compromise on constitutional grounds arguing Congress lacked this power.
Dred Scott v. Sandford- What is the power to regulate slavery in the territories.
This 1862 battle convinced Britain and France not to recognize the Confederacy after Union forces claimed a strategic, though costly, victory.
What is the Battle of Antietam.
The Emancipation Proclamation was justified primarily as an exercise of this specific presidential power.
What is the Presidential war powers.
These laws attempted to force formerly enslaved people into labor contracts and limit their mobility.
What are the Black Codes.
The Confederacy struggled economically due to cotton diplomacy and this fiscal policy (or what they did) that triggered runaway inflation (9000%).
What is over printing Confederate currency without having any solid value.
This party formed in 1854, united diverse Northern groups around the principle of preventing the expansion of slavery NOT abolition.
The Republican Party
Historians often credit this Confederate general's leadership for prolonging the war despite the South's material disadvantages.
Who is Robert E. Lee.
This 1866 law, passed over Johnson's veto, marked Congress's first major effort to define federal protection of civil rights.
Civil Rights act of 1866.
This 1875 law attempted to guarantee equal access to public accommodations but was later struck down by the Supreme Court in Plessy v. Ferguson.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1875,
General William Sherman issued an order which provided 40 acres and a mule. What is that order.
Special Field Order No. 15
This Act allowed for individuals to decide the issue of slavery on their own, otherwise known as popular sovreignty.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act
Sherman's "hard war" strategy in 1864 targeted not only Confederate armies but also this broader category of resources, signaling a shift in how war was fought.
What is total war which targeting civilians and their infrastructure and economic resources.
Racial violence was ignited in the wake of the political, social, and racial tensions that characterized the South during Reconstruction as a result of the 13th amendment.
What is the Memphis Massacre.
Redeemer Governments
These congressional acts were a response to racial violence in the South in 1870 and 1871.
What are the Force Acts.
What is the Lecompton Constitution crisis in Kansas.
The War in the West was primarily fought for this purpose.
What is gain total control over the Mississippi River.
This Amendment finally overturned Dred Scott decision.
What is the 14th Amendment.
Who are the KKK, Pale Faces and Carmelia.
It was under the Redeemer governments that these laws were passed to subjugate freedmen and emancipated individuals.
What are the Jim Crow Laws