Causes of the Civil War
What is the Nullification Crisis?
The group that was fighting a defensive war and had a stronger motivation to fight in the Civil War to keep their way of life.
What is the Confederacy?
"...all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free..."
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
A court case that established the precedent of "separate, but equal", allowing segregation to take place throughout the United States.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
A principle of government that allowed for the expansion of slavery in the West.
What is popular sovereignty?
The passage of this law angered many northerners who were forced to return slaves to the South. The abolitionist movement grew as a result.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act/Law?
The two turning point battles of the Civil War.
What are the Battles of Gettysburg and Vicksburg?
"I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws the Union is unbroken, and to the extent of my ability, I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the states."
What is Lincoln's First Inaugural Address?
This would offer southerners amnesty for all illegal acts supporting the rebellion (secession and the Civil War). Southerners would have to pledge an oath of loyalty and agree to accept the 13th Amendment.
What is the Ten Percent Plan?
The first African American to be elected to the U.S. Senate. This happened as a result of former Confederates being barred to hold political office.
Who is Hiram Rhodes Revels?
It made slavery a moral issue not a political issue. The south is angered because they felt as if they were being misrepresented.
What is the Uncle Tom's Cabin?
What is the Union?
"Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude-"
What is the 15th Amendment?
Established by Congress to help freed slaves find food, and provide housing, clothing, and education. This was supported by Radical Republicans.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
What is sharecropping?
This is a result of different economic practices and increased devotion to one's region.
What is sectionalism?
The majority of the fighting during the Civil War took place in this region.
What is the South?
"It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
What is the Gettysburg Address?
It allowed the government to send more aid to the South and withdraw military troops if southern state governments agreed to honor all rights for African Americans.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This politician was very lenient toward the South and believed that the national government had too much power, such as provided equal rights to African American men.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This court case was an argument over whether or not slaves were property or human beings. Slavery was allowed anywhere and Congress could not make laws controlling it.
What is the Dred Scott Case?
The presidents of the Union and Confederacy, and commanding generals of the Union and Confederacy, respectively.
Who are Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Ulysses S. Grant, and Robert E. Lee?
Section 1.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This outlined how the South would be structured and governed during this time period to ensure the states would follow the 13th and 14th Amendments by creating new state constitutions.
What is the Reconstruction Act of 1867?
3 examples of Jim Crow Laws that were used to restrict liberties of freedmen.
What are poll taxes, grandfather clauses, and literacy tests?