Causes of the Civil War
Ongoing struggle over political power in the U.S.
What is states' rights?
Leader of the Confederate Army
Who is General Lee?
A system in which laborers use land in exchange for a share of crops
What is sharecropping?
Also known as "slavery without chains"
What are Black Codes?
Native Americans were given reserved land and signed a treaty
What is the reservation system?
SCOTUS decided the African Americans could not sue in court
What is the Dred Scott case?
Leader of the Union Army
Who is Ulysses Grant?
Expanded the federal government powers to protect African- Americans
What is the 13th , 14th, and 15th Amendments?
Despised by Northern and Southern Whites
Who are the Radical Republicans?
These were often broken between Native Americans and U.S. government
What are treaties?
An abolitionist who wanted to give slaves weapons to start an insurrection
What is John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry?
President of the Union during the Civil War
Who is President Lincoln?
Main goal was to provide relief to black and white Southerners.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
Liens could be placed on future crops, a system that kept sharecroppers. in debt
What is debt peonage?
Gave Native Americans an allotment of land for farming, remaining land could be sold
What is the Dawes Act?
Settlers were allowed to decide if they would allow slavery
What is the Kansas - Nebraska Act?
Became the president after Lincoln was assassinated
Who is Andrew Johnson?
Feed slaves in states that were in rebellion to the Union.
What is the Emancipation Proclomation?
Low point of race relations from 1890-1920 in the U.S.
What is nadir?
Marked the last major confrontation in the Plains Indian Wars.
What is Wounded Knee?
Calfornia becomes a free state
What is the Compromise of 1850?
Who is Jefferson Davis?
Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse
What is the end of the Civil War?
They wore heads on their heads and terrorized anyone who supported the Republican Party
Who is the Klu Klux Klan?
To be something you are not, change your culture and tradiutions
What is assimilation?