WhyCantWeBeFriends
In the territories.
Lincoln was not a Radical Republican, he was more _________
Moderate
The Missouri Compromise line was strained due to this event in 1849
The California Gold Rush
What is the time period after the Civil War called? (1865-1877)
Reconstruction Era.
This Amendment formally ended slavery in the U.S.
The 13th Amendment
What provision of the Compromise of 1850 did Northerners take the most issue with?
The Fugitive Slave Act - as it meant Northern states would have to spend money to deport escapees living in the North.
What was the first state to secede when Lincoln was elected?
South Carolina
What issue was the Know-Nothing, or American Party most concerned with?
Immigration, particularly that of poor Irish and Germans.
Many African Americans joined the Republican Party and ran for office thanks to this Amendment
This Amendment overturned Justice Roger Taney's opinion in Dred Scott v Sandford
The 14th - by guaranteeing birthright citizenship, all African Americans were considered citizens (which they weren't prior to the Civil War)
The Republican Party was born in the aftermath of what law?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. - Popular sovereignty was really unpopular with aboltionists and free soilers.
Lincoln issuing this document gained him continued support from Radical Republicans and abolitionists
The Emancipation Proclamation
Allegedly, what was so bad about being Catholic in the 1840s?
American Protestants accused Catholics of secretly having an allegiance to the Pope, and therefore they could never be "true Americans"
This government agency was tasked with helping African Americans get established after the Civil War
The Freedman's Bureau
- Provided legal services
- Helped African Americans find their families
- Provided education
- Helped negotiate employment contracts
Why did those drunk Irish Schmoes leave the Emerald Isle in the first place?
The Famine of 1847-48. --- There was plenty of food, but the genocidal, colonial English government exported it all to their markets.
Put the legislation in order
- Kansas Nebraska Act
- Compromise of 1850
- Missouri Compromise
Missouri Compromise (1820), Compromise of 1850, Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
Name one of the two explanations we gave in class for Lincoln's "new birth of freedom" quote
- The extension of freedom to African American population.
By declaring that all territories were open to slavery, the Dred Scott decision was the final blow to this first agreement
The Missouri Compromise (1820)
The terms "scalawag" and "carpetbaggers" were used to critique whom?
Supporters / Participants in Reconstruction
- Scalawag were white Southern Republicans
- Carpetbaggers - northerners who moved to the South to work in the Reconstruction programs
He was against the expansion of slavery into the territories
- He wanted the territories to be open to free white labor only
Why did Reconstruction ultimately come to an end? (The end of Reconstruction was official when the military was removed from occupying Southern states)
- There was little support in the North
- There was a lot of resistance in the South
- The election of 1876 and Compromise of 1877
To gain continued support for the war effort.
What was an immediate consequence of the Dred Scott decision?
Many northerners joined the Republican Party
The early Reconstruction period was more successful at delivering __________ equality between the races than it was at securing __________ equality
Political, Economic
An Irish Shmoe might read this phrase in the newspaper, signalling she should not even bother trying to get a job there.
"No Irish Need Apply"