Before the War
This term refers to the concept that the people should decide the laws in a state, including the slavery laws.
What is popular soveriegnty?
What is The Union? or the North
This freed all slaves in Confederate states and allowed African Americans to join the war effort for the Union.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This amendment freed all slaves in any state.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This practice in the south forced African Americans back on the plantation and set up a system in which they would work, but not get paid fairly for their labor.
What is Sharecropping?
This term refers to a person who supporte the anti-slavery movement and wanted to end slavery in all states.
What is an abolitionist?
During the war, this strategy cut off southern ports, making it difficult for them to trade with Europe.
What is the Anaconda strategy?
Lincoln didn't free all enslaved people in the Emancipation Proclamation because he wanted to keep these states in the Union?
What are border states?
This amendment gave equal rights to all African Americans as citizens.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This is a word that means the legal separation of people based on their race.
What is segregation?
These 2 compromises were attempts by the government to reduce conflict over slavery.
What is the Missouri compromise and Compromise of 1850 (you will not gain or lose points if you only answered one of these)?
During the war, this machine was used to send messages quickly between Lincoln and the Union Army. The Confederates did not have access to this machine in as many places.
What is the telegraph?
After the Emancipation Proclamation this group of men fought in the Civil War and contributed to the northern victory.
Who are African Americans?
This organization gave newly freed slaves shelter, food, and medical care.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
In response to the 15th Amendment, southern states created __________ and ___________ to make it nearly impossible for Africans Americans to vote.
What is literacy tests and poll taxes?
This event led directly to the southern states seceding and declaring war on the U.S.
What is the election of 1860 or the election of Lincoln?
During the war, _______________ in the north helped the Union bring supplies to their soldiers quickly and efficiently. (This is one word that means factories and railroads).
What is industrialization?
Lincoln held civilians in jail without giving them a trial after this.
What is the Baltimore Riot of 1861?
This amendment gave the right to vote to African American men.
What is the 15th amdendemnt?
These laws passed in southern states immediately after the Civil War restricted the rights of newly freed African Americans.
What are the Black Codes?
This Supreme Court case stated that enslaved people were property with no rights and that congress could not prohibit slavery in any state.
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?
During the War, this side was focused on a defensive strategy because they knew the land better.
Who is the Confederacy?
This Supreme Court case ruled that Lincoln did not have the right to suspend the Writ of Habeas Corpus during war time.
What is Ex Parte Merryman?
This supreme Court case ruled that segregation was legal by creating the idea of "separate but equal"
What is Plessy v. Fergusen?
This system allowed southern plantation owners to use convicts as laborers to work their land for no pay, encouraging the arrest of more African Americans in the south.
What Convict labor lease?