Civil war and Reconstruction

Terms

100

Clashed violently after the Kansas Nebraska act due to Popular Sovereignty

Bleeding Kansas

200

This system kept freedmen in a cycle of debt by renting land in exchange for crops and was slavery with extra steps

Sharecropping

300

This system of unfair laws were passed in the south to restrict the rights of the newly freed African Americans

Black codes

400

This agency provided food, schooling and legal aid to formerly enslaved people after the civil war

Freedmen's Bureau

500

This supreme court case ruled that African Americans were not citizens and Congress couldn't ban slavery

Dred Scott V Sandford

Civil war

100

The election of this president in the 1860 was the catalyst to the south secession

Abraham Lincoln

200

This 1863 document declared slaves freed in Confederate states

Emancipation Proclamation 

300

This amendment passed after the war finally abolished slavery in the United States

13th Amendment

400

 This battle was the bloodiest battle in the civil war

Gettysburg

500

Who had the famous march aimed to destroy the south's economy going from Atlanta to the sea 

Sherman

Reconstruction

100

This violent white supremacist group formed to resist Reconstruction

KKK (Ku Klux Klan)

200

This amendment to the Constitution gave equal citizenship and equal protection under the law

14th Amendment

300

This amendment to the Constitution gave African American men the right to vote

15th amendment

400

This plan required 10% of southern voters to swear loyalty to rejoin the union

10% plan

500

This political deal ended Reconstruction by removing federal troops from the South

Compromise of 1877