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 Black Codes?
This document that Lincoln wrote changed the Civil War from States Rights to Human Rights.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
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.
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?
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 northern states return any slaves that escaped from the South.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
He was appointed President after the President before him was assonated by John Wilks Booth.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This plan was seen as to lenient on the South because all they had to do is apologize to the Union and they were off the hook.
What is the Johnson Plan?
Farmer Blake owned his own plow and horse, but did not own his own land. Farmer Blake is a
What is a Tenant Farmer?
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 plan 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)?
Largest Civil War battle.
What is Gettysburg?
What was the name of Abraham Lincoln's reconstruction plan?
What is the 10% plan.
A diplomatic crisis in November 1861, during the American Civil War, where a U.S. naval ship stopped a British mail steamer, the RMS Trent, and forcibly removed two Confederate diplomats, James Mason and John Slidell.
What is the Trent Affair?