Vocabulary
To leave (the Union)
secede
scoundrel or worthless rascal
Scalawag
What role did state's rights play in the outbreak of the Civil War
states that seceded believed that the federal government had broken the agreement of the Constitution so they did not need to remain part of the union.
fought mostly on southern soil, people lost crops and homes; long war resulted in shortages of many products
Allowing the people to decide
popular sovereignty
Northerners who moved South after the war and supported Republicans
Carpetbaggers
the four border states
Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri
when a landowner rented a plot of land to a farmer along with a shack, some seeds, tools, and perhaps a mule.
sharecropping
a conflict between citizens of the same country
Civil War
Enslaved African American in Missouri (slave state) who moved to a free state with the doctor who owned him. Sued for his freedom because he had lived in a free state before being brought back to Missouri
Dred Scott
side of the war that believed that the other could not hold out for long because they did not have the resources neede
Union (Northern states)
period of rebuilding after the Civil War and readmitting Southern States to the Union
Reconstruction
A storage site for weapons
Arsenal
First president of the Confederate States of America
Jefferson Davis
side of the war that believed they had a stronger fighting spirit and that the other side would not be able to subdue that
Confederacy (Southern)
Laws to control freed men and women
Black Codes
A person who dies for their cause
martyr
wanted the southern states to rejoin the union, and take charge of their governments. (individual)
Abraham Lincoln
what was the name of the group that wanted to change the institutions of the South and viewed Lincoln's plan as too forgiving?
Confederate States of America - name the states that originally formed this new nation (7)
Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina
Amendment that abolished slavery throughout the United States
13th Amendment