Causes of Civil War
This book gained support for the abolitionist cause
Uncle Tom's Cabin
created by law to help pay for the Civil War in the north
income tax
After the Southern states seceded from the union, they were know as
The Confederate States of America
Organization created in South to harass and intimidate former slaves
Ku Klux Klan
the formal withdrawal of a state from the union
secession
Which issue technically started the Civil War?
secession or States Rights
The Presidential candidate for the Republican Party in the Election of 1860?
Abraham Lincoln
the Civil War started after shots were fired on
Fort Sumter
Southern laws passed to limit the freedoms of former slaves after the Civil War
Black Codes
A system in which farmworkers supply their own tools and rent farmland
tenant farming
The new fugitive slave law was a part of this act, hated by many northerners and southerners
Compromise of 1850
Union statement freeing southern slaves during the Civil War
Emancipation Proclamation
laws passed to force citizens into military service in both the North and the South
conscription laws
What agricultural system limited economic opportunity for freed slaves after the Civil War
sharecropping
favoring the interest of native born people over foreign born people
nativism
Southerners praised this Supreme Court decision because it protected their property rights.
Dred Scott v. Sanford
What three amendments were passed as a direct result of the Civil War
13th, 14th, 15th
How many Americans died in the Civil War
619,000
The Compromise of 1877 removed federal troops from the South basically ending Reconstruction and giving the South
home rule
guarantees citizenship and equal protection for all under the law
14th Amendment
Popular sovereignty would now determine slave and free states as a result of the
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Northern Democrats who advocated for making peace with the Confederacy during the Civil War
Copperheads
turning point battle of the Civil War
Battle of Gettysburg
What was the greatest positive achievement for African Americans during Reconstruction?
amendments were added to the US Constitution that would eventually protect their rights
A system in which the residents are given power to vote to decide an issue
popular sovereignty