Union in Crisis
Party that wanted to prevent the expansion of slavery in the western territories
Free Soil Party
Northern strategy designed to starve the South into submission
Anaconda Plan
Reconstruction
Widespread segregation of the South began with these laws
Jim Crow
Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, which put a human face on slavery and as a result increased antislavery sentiment in the North
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Presidential decree that declared "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".
Emancipation Proclamation
Known as the 10% Plan, this President devised a plan that required 10 percent of a state's voters to take a loyalty oath to the Union in order to rejoin the Union and form a new government
Abraham Lincoln
Born into slavery, this person became a teacher and later a journalist writing for newspapers condemning the violence agains African Americans
Ida B. Wells
Supreme Court ruling that slaves were not citizens and could move to any state and still be considered enslaved. This resulted in slavery debates intensifying in the U.S.
Dred Scott Decision
Law passed by Congress making slavery unconstitutional
Thirteenth Amendment
One of the successes of Reconstruction, this plan passed by Congress provided food, clothing, health care and education for both African Americans and white refugees in the South
Freedmen's Bureau
The former Mississippi senator who was appointed as the President of the Confederate States of America
Jefferson Davis
Allowed California to enter as a free state but other territory acquired would decide for themselves on the issue of slavery
Compromise of 1850
Union General who became the 18th President of the United States
Ulysses S. Grant
Guaranteed African American citizens the right to ride trains and use public facilities yet left it to the courts how to interpret how the laws would be applied
Civil Rights Act of 1875
New York Abolitionist who led a raid on a proslavery settlement murdering five people and igniting "Bleeding Kansas" in the fall of 1856
John Brown
Divided the Nebraska territory into two states and allowed each state to decide on the issue of slavery by popular sovereignty (by the people).
Kansas Nebraska Act
Union General who led more than 60,000 troops on a 400 mile march of destruction through Georgia and South Carolina as a part of his total war strategy.
General William T. Sherman
Three Challenges of Reconstruction that were faced at the end of the Civil War
Reunite the Union, Rebuild the Southern Economy, Extend Citizenship to African Americans
Forces from the Confederate States of America attacked this United States military garrison
Fort Sumter