Slavery
The slave system in which slaves were assigned jobs and when they completed the jobs, the slaves could do what they wanted to do with their free time.
The Task System
Part of the Compromise of 1850, this increased punishments for helping escaped slaves and allowed slave catchers to capture former enslaved people who had been living free in the North without due process.
The Fugitive Slave Act
The Union consisted of states located in what part of the United States.
North
Which political party dominated Congress during Reconstruction?
The Republicans
Which Amendment banned slavery in America?
13th Amendment
What was one of the slave rebellions discussed in Unit 3
Nat Turner rebellion, Denmark Vesey rebellion, Gabriel Prosser rebellion
This would allow people in a new territory to vote on whether or not to allow slavery
Popular Sovereignty
What was a role of women during the civil war?
Nurses, spies, soldiers, and cooks and support for soldiers in camp
What government organization helped formerly enslaved people get a start in life by providing supplies, shelter and educational opportunities after the war?
Freedman's Bureau
Which Amendment told states that they could not ban voting based on a man's skin color?
15th Amendment
Yeoman farmer
Fighting between pro-slavery forces and anit-slavery forces in Kansas Territory
Bleeding Kansas
Where did General Lee surrender to General Grant, ending the Civil War?
Appomatox Courthouse
Who was the President who was impeached after the Civil War
Andrew Johnson
This Amendment gives all citizens “equal protection” under the law and anyone born in the United States is a citizen.
14th Amendment
escaped slaves
As a result of this Supreme Court decision, African Americans were considered to not be citizens and could not use the courts
Scott v. Sandford or the Dred Scott Decision
What was the bloodiest one-day battle in American history?
Battle of Antietam
Formerly enslaved people were given seeds and supplies so they could farm. In return they would owe a portion of their harvest to the owner of the land. This is called . . .
Sharecropping
What secret society in the South terrorized former slaves by burning crosses, beating, and lynching them?
Why did the value of slaves rise after 1808
Ban on slave importation to America
This person wrote the book, "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
Harriet Beecher Stowe
What three-day battle ended with what is known as "Pickett's Charge"?
Gettysburg
Which plan for Reconstruction divided the South into five districts under military rules.
Radical Reconstruction
What was the agreement to end Reconstruction in the South?
The Compromise (Bargain) of 1877