Civil War Vocabulary
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?
This document that Lincoln wrote changed the Civil War from States Rights to Human Rights.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
His 10% plan was based on forgiveness and a quick, peaceful reunion with the South.
Who is President Lincoln?
Constitutional amendment that granted freedom to all Americans who suffered involuntary servitude.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Supreme Court ruling that declared slaves were not citizens of the United States.
What is the Dred Scott Case?
Terrorist organization created to intimidate and prevent freedmen and Republicans from gaining political power in the South.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
The General who is famous for his "March to the Sea"
Who is William T. Sherman?
The Constitutional amendment overturned the Dred Scott decision and provided due process of law to former slaves.
What is the The 14th Amendment?
The belief that a state's sovereignty is more important than that of the national government.
What is States Rights?
A person who farmed someone else's land and didn't bring anything with them but their physical labor.
What is a sharecropper or tenant farmer?
This is the main source of transportation during the Civil War.
What is the Railroad?
Agency set up to start schools, churches, supply food, and clothing for former slaves and poor whites.
What is Freedmen's Bureau?
A law that made assisting run away slaves punishable.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
A sharecropper of tenant farmer who owed money to the landlord and could not leave until the debt was paid.
What is a debt peonage?
He was appointed President after the President Lincoln is assassinated?
Who is Andrew Johnson?
His plan for Reconstruction allowed former Confederates back into power nd brought back the Antebellum South.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
Farmer Blake owned his own plow and horse, but did not own his own land. Farmer Blake is a
What is a Sharecropper?
Union strategy during the Civil War which incorporated a plan to blockade Southern ports and capture the Mississippi River.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
Reconstruction period where Congress took responsibility for bringing the South back into the Union. Later dividing the South into 5 Military districts.
What is Congressional Plan (Military Plan)?
A 3 day battle fought in Pennsylvania where General Lee lost and changed the course of the war.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg.
The case established the doctrine of "separate but equal" as legal.
What is Plessy V. Ferguson
"Four score and seven years ago..." Spoken by Lincoln and changed the goal of the war to ending slavery.
What is the Gettysburg Address.