Civil War Causes
This person tried to create an armed rebellion of slaves and was responsible for the attack on the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry.
Who is John Brown?
The Civil War lasted during these years.
What is 1861 - 1865?
This was the man who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
People who argue that African Americans today in the South and other places are being targeted for voter suppression (efforts to limit their ability to register to vote or access to voting booths) would cite this Amendment passed during Reconstruction
What is the 15th Amendment?
Among the Black Codes, this type of law was used to arrest African Americans who were seen publicly not working.
What are vagrancy laws?
This controversial Supreme Court decision in 1857 ruled that a slave taken to a free state and living there still could not be considered free and that this would be unfairly depriving slaveholders of their property rights.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford? (Pages 162-63 and 166-67 in textbook)
The attack here by the South were the first shots fired in the Civil War
What is Fort Sumpter?
Lincoln was the ____th President of the United States.
What is the 16th?
This Constitutional Amendment most importantly provided Equal Protection under the law and is today the Amendment most cited in lawsuits.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This was the practice of charging African Americans a fee in order to vote.
What is a poll tax?
Harriet Beacher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin inspired people in the North to increase their protests against this law.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
The loss in this battle by the Confederacy that took place in southern Pennsylvania ultimately led to their giving up further plans of a successful invasion of the North.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation did not free all the slaves, but purported (attempted) to free these people
Who are slaves in Southern areas that were not under Union control?
This organization was established by Congress to provide food, clothing, hospitals, legal protection, and education for former slaves and poor whites in the the South in 1865.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
In this system, landowners divided their land assigned and assigned each head of household a few acres, along with seed and tools, in return for a substantial share of the crops. Unfortunately, this often resulted in people essentially working for the landowners without achieving economic independence.
What is sharecropping?
These two abolitionist newspapers were started by Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison
What are "The North Star" and "The Liberator"?
Lincoln's successor, President Andrew Johnson, was very unpopular with the Radical Republicans. When they attempted to impeach and convict him over numerous scandals and his opposition to their policies, this happened
What is they impeached Johnson (requires a majority vote in the House which they got easily) but did not convict him (requires a 2/3 vote in the Senate and they missed by one vote).
In Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, Lincoln does at least these two things that are noteworthy and controversial that we discussed in class
What is (1) Lincoln refuses to blame the South exclusively or gloat about winning the war; and (2) Lincoln suggests that the Civil War may be God's just punishment for slavery.
He was the first Black senator in U.S. History.
Who is Hiram Revels?
This unwritten, informal deal to remove federal troops from the South, effectively ending Reconstruction, was made as part of the agreement to allow President Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican) to take office and is known as this
What is the Compromise of 1877?