Causes of the Civil War
Supreme Court ruling that declared slaves were not citizens of the United States.
What is the Dred Scott Case?
Which side had the advantage in more industrial production and railroad transportation during the Civil War?
Constitutional amendment that granted freedom to all Americans who suffered involuntary servitude.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Women in the West had more freedom than their counter parts in the East. Susan B Anthony was arrested in 1872 for doing what?
What is voting?
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ending the Mexican American War. This tract of land was added to the United States.
What is the Mexican Cession?
This document that Lincoln wrote changed the Civil War from States Rights to Human Rights.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Laws created by Southern legislatures during Reconstruction that took away the civil rights of freedmen. These Laws were meant to slow down the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments.
What are Black Codes?
Agency set up to start schools, churches, supply food, and clothing for former slaves and poor whites. Greatest accomplishment was education.
What is Freedmen's Bureau?
This act gave 160 acres to adults that settled on the land for 5 years. It lead to 270 million acres of western land to be settled and developed.
What is the Homestead Act?
This Congressional act allowed two new territory to decide through popularly sovereignty whether to become free or slave states. It caused the Bleeding of Kansas.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
African American leaders in Georgia met with Union General Sherman and were promised this if they supporting the Union victory.
What is 40 acres and a mule?
Amendment that gave voting rights to all men regardless of race or color
What is the 15th Amendment?
This Reconstruction plan was based on forgiveness and a quick, peaceful reunion with the South.
What is Presidential Reconstruction? (Lincoln and Johnson)
The Chinese Exclusion Act was passed in Congress despite demand for labor in the West due to this belief, which did not support immigration. It is a type of scapegoating.
What is nativism?
This event was the directly began the Civil War
What is the Election of 1860
Also acceptable: Lincoln's Election, Secession of SC, Attack at Fort Sumter
These two battles were turning points in the Civil war. One in the west and one in the east.
200 pts each.
What are the Battles of Gettysburg (East) and Vicksburg (West)?
The Constitutional amendment overturned the Dred Scott decision by granting all people born in the US citizens of the US.
What is the The 14th Amendment?
Political faction in Congress that took over the Reconstruction process in 1867 and advocated vigorously for African-American rights.
Who was the leader of this faction in the House of Representatives?
Who are the Radical Republicans?
Who is Thaddeus Stevens?
These were created to increase the assimilation of Native Americans. They promoted the racist propaganda like "Kill the Indian, Save the Man" and resulted in cultural genocide across generations of Native Americans.
What are Native/Indian Boarding Schools? (Carlisle Indian School)
Compromise between the North and South that allowed California to enter the union in exchange for the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act.
What is Compromise of 1850?
This was the Unions overall military strategy to cut off southern ports and control the Mississippi River.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
This Supreme Court case solidified Jim Crow Laws/segregation across the US by declaring it constitutional in 1896.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This compromise officially ended federal support for Reconstruction due to the costly involved to keep military support in the South and Hayes' contested presidential election result.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This massacre ended with over 300 Lakota American Indians killed including women and children. It was caused by US federal suspicious and fear of the Ghost Dance movement and was the last major battle of the Native American Frontier Wars.
What is the Battle (Massacre) of Wounded Knee