Cause & Effect
What were the two beliefs that motivated the abolitionists?
slavery was immoral and all enslaved people should be freed immediately and completely
This group of ex-confederate soldiers used terror to intimidate black voters.
Klu Klux Klan
What is Secession?
This word means to leave the Union.
What was the Dredd Scott case?
This Supreme Court case said that black people weren’t citizens of America and had no rights.
What was the Missouri Compromise of 1820?
A law passed in 1820 maintaining the balance of power between slave and free states in Congress
What was one effect of Lincolns election as president in 1860?
Southern states began to secede from the union
This amendment officially ended slavery in 1865.
13th Amendment
This system allowed landowners to rent land to poor farmers in exchange for a part of their harvest.
Sharecropping
These 3 amendments granted basic rights to all Americans regardless of race.
13th, 14th and 15th amendments
What was Bleeding Kanas
Demonstrated the extreme tensions between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States, which causes a widespread violence.
What was the primary issue that led to the Civil War?
slavery
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This government program provided Black people with assistance after the war.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
This system proposed to let the people of each new state decide if they would allow slavery or not.
what were two results of the Civil War?
slavery ending, the federal government getting more power, the south being destroyed
This person led the Union army during the Civil War.
Ulysses S Grant
What caused the Fugitive Slave Act ?
Growing tensions between free and slave states in the United States, particularly due to the increasing number of enslaved people escaping to Northern states
What mandate did Lincoln believe his reelection in 1864 justified?
ending slavery by a constitutional amendment
The process of forcing the president to leave office for committing a crime.
impeach/impeachment
This compromise allowed Republicans to win the presidential election of 1876 in exchange for the army leaving the South.
Compromise of 1877
Who is John Brown?
This person tried to start a slave uprising at Harper’s Ferry in 1859.
What was the cause of Fort Sumter (first battle of the Civil War)
Escalating tensions over the issue of slavery and not wanting to look like the weak ones.
This group wanted to use Reconstruction to punish Confederates, reshape the South, and promote Black equality.
Radical Republicans?
Define Carpetbaggers
A person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction.
What were the three different plans for Reconstruction after the Civil War?
Lincoln's Plan, Johnson's Plan, and the Radical Republican's Plan
According to the Emancipation Proclamation which two groups does Lincoln say he will help protect the freed African Americans?
Government, military