Pre-Civil War
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?
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 Jim Crow Laws or Black Codes?
He was the president during the Civil War
Who is Abraham Lincoln
His Reconstruction plan was based on forgiveness and a quick, peaceful reunion with the South.
Who is President Johnson?
This government agency was created to assist former slaves with their new lives in America. They helped with education, jobs, medical treatment, legal assistance, etc.
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
Supreme Court ruling that declared African Americans were not citizens of the United States.
What is the Dred Scott Case?
This amendment abolished Slavery in the US.
What is the 13th amendment?
This document declared the slaves were free only in the confederate states
What is the Emancipation Proclamation
This era was a time in which the United States needed to be reunited after the Civil War.
What is Reconstruction?
What is the Gettysburg Address?
Person deliberatly working to free slaves.
Who is an Abolishionist?
A system where a landowner lets a farmer use their land to grow crops in exchange for a large portionof the harvest, often with the landowner providing seeds, tools, and housing
What is a sharecropper?
The first battle of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Fort Sumter?
He was appointed President after President Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
A law that made northern states return any slaves that escaped from the South.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
A Supreme Court case in which the Court decided that slaves who were descendants of American slaves were not citizens of the United States
Dred Scott case
This Amendment granted citizenship to all men and women born or naturalized in the US.
What is a the 14th Amendment?
The Abolishionist known for conducting the Underground Railroad?
Who is Harriet Tubman?
The plan for reconstuction if Abraham Lincoln would have lived to see it through?
The 10% Plan
This was the largest battle of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
Admitted Missouri to the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state, while banning slavery from the lands north of the 36ยบ 30' parallel.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This Amendment gave all men the right to vote.
What is 15th Amendment?
This place is where General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant, and ended the Civil War.
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
This was the name for Southerners that assisted the North during Reconstruction.
What are Scalawags?
The name for Northerners who moved to the South during Reconstruction.
What are Carpet Baggers?