Important People
This man was an abolitionist that believed that God had chosen him to end slavery in the United States. Considered a terrorist to the South and a hero to the North, he was executed his failed raid at Harpers Ferry.
Who is John Brown?
April 9, 1865, marked the official surrender of the Confederate Army, General Robert E. Lee met with General Ulysses S. Grant at the courthouse of this Virginia town, effectively ending the Civil War (Mr. Way briefly lived in his moms attic just down the street)
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
This 1820 agreement tried to maintain the balance between free and slave states by admitting Missouri as a slave state and this state as a free one
What is Maine?
This term refers to the act of setting someone free from slavery or bondage, a major goal of the Union during the Civil War.
What is Emancipation?
The 13th Amendment abolished this practice in the United States, except as punishment for a crime that a person has been duly convicted of.
What is Slavery?
The 17th President of the United states, this former Tennessee representative "DREW" up a lenient reconstruction plan that did not punish the south for the Civil War.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
We use this term to describe discriminatory laws or practices in southern states that were meant to deny freedmen their rights. These include Poll Taxes, Literacy Tests and Residency Requirements.
What are Black Codes?
The Compromise of 1850 included admitting California as a free state and passing this strict law that required northers to turn in escaped slaves.
What is The Fugitive Slave Law?
This word means a formal withdrawal from an organization or alliance, as several Southern states did from the United States in 1860 and 1861.
What is Secession?
The 14th amendment granted citizenship to everyone born in the United States, or this word which means to voluntarily become a citizen through a legal process, even though you were born outside the country.
What is naturalized?
This is a term for a Southerner who supported reconstruction, they were viewed in a negative light by their confederate neighbors for supporting the Union during the war and their more progressive views. (Kind of sounds like a pirate word...)
What is a Scalawag?
In U.S History we use this term to describe the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendment as a group, they are called the "---- Amendments"
What are the Reconstruction Amendments?
The Kansas Nebraska Act allowed settlers in Kansas and Nebraska to vote for themselves whether to allow slavery, a concept known as what?
What is Popular Sovereignty?
We use this term to describe a person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction, they are often portrayed as negative figures in the eyes of Southerners.
Who are the Carpet Baggers?
The 15th Amendment makes it illegal to deny a citizen these rights, regardless of their race or previous condition of servitude (if they were a slave)
What are Voting Rights?
Before becoming the President of the Confederate States during the Civil War, this leader served as a U.S. Senator from Mississippi and as Secretary of War under 14th President of The United States, Franklin Pierce.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
As a part of the Republican Reconstruction Plan, the south was divided into 5 of these, which the U.S Military occupied to enforce Reconstruction efforts and protect the rights of Freedmen.
What are Military Districts?
On April 14, 1865, five days after the end of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by a confederate sympathizer at this famous theater. (it shares its name with a popular car and truck manufacturer.)
What is Fords Theater
This term means the right to vote. (even though it sounds like something painful...)
What is Suffrage?
This Government run Reconstruction group had only 900, most of which were previous Union Soldiers. Despite a lack of presidential support they provided aid to recently freed men including setting up schools, providing medical and employment aid and even reuniting families separated by slavery.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This man was an enslaved African-American man who, along wt, unsuccessfully sued for the freedom , in the "BLANK v. Sandford" case of 1857.
Who is Dred Scott?
This Union General was responsible for implementing the famous Anaconda Plan, a military strategy that involved placing naval blockades and sending troops to surrounded the south and cutting it off from supplies.
Who is General Winfield Scott?
This executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863 declared freedom for enslaved people in Confederate states providing the Union with a "Moral Purpose" for the war.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
These were pledges of allegiance to the United States required from Southern states and their citizens to show support for the Union and acceptance of new laws, including those abolishing slavery, before being readmitted to union.The parentage of voters who had to take was an issue dividing republicans.
What are Loyalty Oaths?
A group of Congress members who wanted to ensure civil rights for freed African Americans and to impose strict requirements on Southern states before they could rejoin the Union.
Who are the Radical Republicans?