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?
Name 2 movements during the Second Great Awakening and 1 influential figure
Temperance movement, Public Education, Women's Suffrage, Abolitionist
People- William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Grimke Sisters,
Creation of National roads, Erie Canal. and increased Tariffs
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?
Created a feeling of Nationalism after defeating the British. No territory was gained but the Star Spangled Banner was written.
What is the war of 1812?
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)?
What is Antietam ?
What was a result of the removal of Black legislators from the Georgia General Assembly during Reconstruction?
What is Georgia was not granted legal return to the United States?
Government passed a tariff, South Carolina didn’t like it, they declared it “null”, Jackson threatens to send federal troops, South Carolina backs down
What is the Nullification Crisis?