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PRE-CIVIL WAR
CIVIL WAR
RECONSTRUCTION
RECONSTRUCTION
RECONSTRUCTION
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Prior to the Civil War, the official position of this party on the issue of slavery was that slavery should be forbidden in the territories and allowed in the states where it already existed. (anti-slave) They wanted to the west open to free, white, labor
What is Republican party
100
This abolished slavery in areas of open rebellion 1863
What is Emancipation Proclamation
100
This amendment defined citizenship rights
What is 14th Amendment
100
Re-drawing district lines in an effort to disenfranchise black voters
What is gerrymandering
100
This ended Reconstruction in a "back-room" deal where Hayes was given the presidency in return for removal of federal troops from the South
What is Compromise of 1877
200
This act (1854) increased the tension between North and South because it allowed slavery in all areas of the Louisiana Purchase under popular sovereignty
What is Kansas-Nebraska Act
200
The battle that prompted Lincoln to release the Emancipation Proclamation
What is Antietam
200
Who's plan for Reconstruction, developed in 1863, allowed for a state to be readmitted once it abolished slavery
What is Lincoln's Plan
200
The response of the federal government to black codes and formation of secret societies like the KKK and Knights of While Camelia
What is Force Acts (Enforcement Acts)
200
These laws were designed to subordinate blacks and segregate them from white society. It will continue until the 1960's Civil Rights movement
What is Jim Crow
300
The concept that the inhabitants of a territory have the right to decide whether or not slavery will be allowed in the territory
What is popular sovereignty
300
Last ditch compromise that would have allowed slaveholders the right to own slaves south of the 36'30
What is Crittendon Proposal
300
The original purpose of the organization was to provide freed blacks with food, clothing, and educational opportunities
What is Freedman's Bureau
300
In this election, Republicans claimed that blacks had been denied the right to vote in several Southern states (year?)
What is 1876
300
A way to disenfranchise black voters by requiring a fee to be paid. Declared unconstitutional by the 24th amendment in 1964.
What is poll tax
400
A primary objective of this political party was to restrict the immigration of Catholics into the U.S.
What is Know-Nothings
400
Supreme court ruling that declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional, thus opening the west to slavery
What is Dred Scott decision
400
Reconstruction began with the Radical Republican plan to divide the South into 5 military districts, ratify the 13th and 14th amendments to their state constitutions, and no ex-confederate official could hold office or vote.
What is Reconstruction Acts of 1867
400
He was impeached for violating the Tenure of Office Act, but really because he was an obstacle to the radical Republicans' Reconstruction plan
Who is Andrew Johnson
400
Stated that blacks could not vote unless one had a grandfather who voted before 1867. Designed to prevent the black vote while allowing the poor, white vote.
What is grandfather clause
500
Refusing to pay taxes if the taxes supported an "immoral" system is consistent with the philosophy of what movement in the early 19th century? Examples of this movement would be Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau
What is Transcendentalism
500
These European governments saw advantages in a southern victory but pursued cautious policies toward both the Union ad the Confederacy.
What is France & Great Britain
500
Black male suffrage 1870
What is 15th amendment
500
Northerners such as teachers and ministers who traveled South after the war to aid the freedman, but many took advantage of ignorant blacks and southern economic plight.
What is Carpetbaggers
500
The first black American elected to Congress
Who is Hiram Revels