Civil War People
His election led South Carolina to secede, or leave the United States
Abraham Lincoln
Created a dividing line at 36*30' to prevent the spread of slavery into the western territories
Missouri Compromise
Ownership of human beings was the primary cause of the Civil War.
Slavery
Event that began in 1861 and ended in 1865 at the Appomattox courthouse?
Civil War
Law that made African Americans citizens, banned discrimination, made black codes illegal and guaranteed equal rights.
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Thaddeus Stevens was the leader of this group in Congress who wanted equal rights for African American men.
Radical Republicans
Idea that citizens of a state could vote if the state would allow slavery or not
Popular Sovereignty
A part of the Anaconda Plan that prevented the Confederacy from trading.
Blockade
Amendment that abolished slavery
13th Amendment
Violence between pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups due to popular sovereignty
Bleeding Kansas
Sent to five districts in the South to protect the rights of freedmen and help them register to vote.
Military
President during Reconstruction that hated wealthy plantation owners but did not care about opportunities for freedmen after the Civil War.
Andrew Johnson
This allowed popular sovereignty in the West, banned the slave trade in Washington D.C., admitted California as a free state and established a strict Fugitive Slave Act?
Compromise of 1850
This declared slaves in rebellion states to be freed in an effort to deprive the Confederacy of its workforce
Emancipation Proclamation
Political party African Americans supported during Reconstruction
Republicans
Which Amendment granted citizenship rights, due process, and equal protection of the law?
14th Amendment
Southerns who supported Reconstruction/Republican policies in the Democratic South
Scalawags
President who wanted 10% of people to pledge their loyalty to the U.S. to be readmitted into the United States.
Abraham Lincoln
Law that allowed popular sovereignty in Kansas and Nebraska to decide if they would allow slavery or not.
Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
The idea that people should have the right to decide whether to be a slave or a free state.
Popular sovereignty?
After this battle, President Lincoln made an address that citied equal rights for African Americans as a goal of the Civil War
Gettysburg
Goal of Presidential Reconstruction.
To reunify the country after the Civil War.
This group was formed to help slaves transition from being slaves to being free citizens. Some goals were to get land, education, and the right to vote
Freedman's Bureau
Enslaved man who sued for his freedom because his master moved him to a free state and free territory.
Dred Scott
This act strengthened a previous law and effectively made all people slave catchers.
What was The Fugitive Slave Act?
Region with the advantages of factories, railroads, and enhanced communications
North
Freed African Americans in the Confederate states but not the border states
Emancipation Proclamation
Successes of Reconstruction (3 examples)
Increased participation of African Americans in government
Laws banning racial discrimination (Civil Rights Act of 1866/14th Amendment)
Voting Rights
Railroad construction in the South
A Northerner who moved south during Reconstruction. (to gain political and economic power or help freedmen)
Carpetbagger
Abolitionist who used violence in Kansas and in Virginia.
John Brown
Supreme Court case that said slaves were not citizens and could not use the US Court system; also said the Missouri Compromise was illegal.
A person who was against slavery.
Battle of Vicksburg
This amendment gave all men the right to vote-- black and white.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Rebuilding of the South's infrastructure and culture after the Civil War.
Reconstruction