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The following is an excerpt from this abolitionists news paper. The North Star, from 1848.
"...abolish slavery in all its forms and aspects, advocate universal emancipation, exalt the standard of public morality, and promote the moral and intellectual improvement of the colored people, and hasten the day of freedom to the three millions of our enslaved fellow countrymen."
Who is Frederick Douglas?
As a part of the Missouri Compromise, this northwest territory was admitted as a free state, keeping the balance when Missouri became a slave state
What is Maine?
This faction of the Republican party disagreed with the former president's plan for reconstruction, favoring a more extreme approach with harsher punishments for the south and more protections for freedmen
What are Radical Republicans?
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th amendment?
This issue, tied to the economy and morality, was the main cause of division between the North and South and ultimately the Civil War.
What is slavery?
This man won the presidential election of 1860, which southern states saw as the final blow against slavery, causing them to secede from the union.
Who is Abraham Lincoln.
The Missouri compromise established this line which divided the country above Texas' and Arkansas' northern border. Slavery would not extend above that line, and would be allowed below it.
What is the 36.30 line?
This a term used by southerners to describe northern buisnessmen who moved to the south and bought land/businesses, in their eyes they were taking advantage of their hardships.
What are Carpet Baggers?
This amendment granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States and guaranteed equal protection under the law.
What is the 14th amendment?
This term describes the growing division in the United States, driven by differences in economy, culture, and views on slavery, ultimately leading to the Civil War. Essentially, people cared more about their part of the country, than the country as a whole.
What is sectionalism?
Made Vice President by Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War, this Southern Democrat and former Tennessee Senator became the president during the Reconstruction Era.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This a term related to the Kansas Nebraska act allowed citizens to decide for themselves if slavery should be allowed in their new state, this violated the terms of the Missouri Compromise
What is Popular Soveriegnty
This Government organization helped new freed slaves in the south by helping them find employment, housing, teaching them new skills, offering medical assistance, building school and reuniting families.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This amendment made it illegal for any state or government entity to deny someone the right to vote based on race, color or previous condition of servitude. Its purpose was to protect the voting rights of freedmen.
What is the 15th amendment?
This 1860 event caused Southern states to secede, fearing their way of life was under threat.
What is the election of Abraham Lincoln?
This mans military strategy to cut the south off from supplies is often called the Anaconda Plan.
Who is General Scott?
The Compromise of 1850 allowed California to be added as a free state in an exchange for a harsher BLANK BLANK act, which allowed southern slave owners to travel to northern free states to recapture escaped slaves.
The Fugitive Slave Act.
This group of southerner terrorists used violence to intimidate freemen from voting, or holding government office.
What is the KKK?
This labor system, common in the South after the Civil War, kept freed African Americans economically dependent and in conditions resembling slavery despite the 13th Amendment.
What is Sharecropping?
Issued by Abraham Lincoln in 1863, this document shifted the cause of the Civil War from preserving the Union to ending slavery.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This abolitionist was seen as a hero in the north, and a terrorist in the south. He thought God had given him the mission of ending slavery in country, he was captured and executed by Robert E Lee after a failed raid.
Who is John Brown?
Bleeding BLANK is a term used to describe the time period where both Pro and Antislavery movements invaded this newly formed state in attempt to influence the vote on the admission of slavery.
What is Kansas
During Reconstruction, the South was divided into five of these, each governed by Union military leaders to enforce new laws and protect the rights of freed slaves
What are Military Disctricts?
These laws, enacted in Southern states during Reconstruction, restricted the rights of African Americans and undermined the equal protection guaranteed by the 14th Amendment.
What are Black Codes?
This Supreme Court decision ruled that African Americans were not citizens and that Congress could not ban slavery in the territories
What is the Dred Scott decision?