A Divided Nation
Why was the 36˚30' parallel important?
It was the line that separated where slavery was allowed and banned.
What was the greatest cause of death in the Civil War
disease
What was an effect of the Southern poll tax laws?
It denied African Americans the right to vote
What was the Fourteenth Amendment?
granted citizenship to anyone born in the United States and guaranteeing all citizens equal protection under the law
Why was the Ku Klux Klan formed?
to drive African Americans out of political life
What was the Missouri Compromise and what was the effect?
An agreement made by Congress in 1820 where Missouri became a slave state and Maine was a free state.
Important because it temporarily ended the slavery debate.
Why was Fort Sumter important?
It turned the Souths secession into the Civil War.
What was the effect of Plessy v. Ferguson?
It ruled that public facilities can be separate but equal
What was the Fifteenth Amendment?
declared that a state could not deny anyone their right to vote because of race or color, or because the person was once a slave
What as the purpose of the Thirteenth Amendement?
abolish slavery
What was the Compromise of 1850 and how did it appease the South?
agreements made to admit California as a free state and New Mexico and Utah would get to choose.
Appeased the South because it included a law to return escaped slaves (Fugitive Slave Act)
What did the Battle of Bull Run prove?
That neither the North or South could win the war quickly.
Why did Southern Democrats pass Jim Crow Laws?
To separate African Americans and whites in public life
What were the Black Codes?
laws passed in 1865 and 1866 in the former Confederate (southern) states to limit the rights and freedoms of African Americans.
They worked together to build communities.
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act and how did it impact the Missouri Compromise?
Passed in 1854 that created Kansas and Nebraska. It also abolished the Missouri Compromise allowing settlers to decide if their state would be slavery in their state (including Northern states)
Who decided to never invade the North again because of the Battle of Gettysburg?
General Lee
What did President Johnson's Reconstruction plan included what?
-cancellation of war debts
-new state constitutions for Confederate states
-ratification of the Thirteenth Amendement
What was Reconstruction?
period after he Civil War in which the Southern states were rebuilt and brought back into the Union
What was one of the advantages the North had at the start of he Civil War?
Agricultural land
What did the Supreme Court rule with the Dred Scott decision?
African Americans didn't have the right to sue the Federal Government.
What did the Union gain control of because of the Battle of Vicksburg?
Mississippi River
Describe African American's role in political office?
an order issued by President Lincoln on January 1, 1863, declaring slaves in the Confederate states to be free
describe at least three ways the government tried to guarantee African Americans full citizenship during Reconstruction. Then describe three ways that various groups tried to deny African Americans full citizenship during and immediately after Reconstruction.
-Tried to guarantee African Americans rights through the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendements (look in other questions for definitions).
-Then connect various issues that happened in Reconstruction to guarnetee the rights given in the amendments