Key Concepts
The era after the Civil War when Union Soldiers were deployed in the South to oversee post-war operations and help protect African Americans.
Reconstruction
Abraham Lincoln
Name 3 of the 4 border states during the Civil War
West Virginia, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri
The assassin and actor who shot Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theater on April 14, 1865.
John Wilkes Booth
Abraham Lincoln's Second Vice President and Successor. He was originally a Democrat but opposed the Confederacy. He led the US during early reconstruction and was the first US President to be impeached.
Andrew Johnson.
Define the "Solid South"
Democratic control over State Legislatures following the Civil War until the Civil Rights Era.
President of the Confederacy during the American Civil War, former Senator from Mississippi.
Jefferson Davis
The political faction that supported rights for African Americans, harsh punishments of Confederate officials, and equal rights.
Radical Republicans
General during the American Civil War that led the Union advance along the Mississippi River, captured Vicksburg, and then defeated Robert E. Lee in Virginia, ending the war. He later became President of the United States but it was known as a corrupt administration.
The Peculiar Institution is a nickname for what?
Slavery
The policy that states vote over whether they are free or slave states. Policy was created by Stephen Douglas
Popular Sovereignty
General during the American Civil War for the Union, fired by Lincoln twice, and was the Democratic Nominee for the 1864 US Presidential Election.
George McClellan
The Fugitive Slave Act
Illinois Senator who ran for an election in 1858 and debated Abraham Lincoln. He created popular sovereignty and ran as a Northern Democrat during the Election of 1860.
Stephen Douglas
Union General that led soldiers through Georgia in late 1864, a campaign known as "The March to the Sea".
William Tecumseh Sherman
A compromise made during the Monroe Administration over creating a division of north and south between free and slave states.
The Missouri Compromise
This ardent abolitionist started the fighting in Kansas after the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act and attempted to rob a depot at Harpers Ferry and start a slave uprising before being executed by the Federal Government
John Brown
Laws put in place after Reconstruction in the South, segregating African American populations.
Jim Crow Laws
Confederate General during the American Civil War, was shot and killed by his own soldiers during the night, mistaken to be an enemy.
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
This amendment gave African Americans the right to vote
The 15th Amendment
Bleeding Kansas
Founder of the American Red Cross during the American Civil War
Clara Barton
Appomattox Courthouse is known for was civil war event?
A. a Battle
b. Start of the War
c. End of the War
c. End of the American Civil War, where General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant.
A slave who attempted to lead a slave insurgency in 1831 from a plantation in Virginia, only to be killed.
Nat Turner
First African American Senator from Mississippi during Reconstruction, member of the Republican Party, and fought in the American Civil War on the side of the Union.
Hiram Revels