Civil War/Reconstruction

Civil War

100

Name of General Winfield Scott's plan to win the Civil War

Anaconda Plan

200

The event started the Civil War

Attack on Ft. Sumter

300

First state to secede from the Union after Lincoln was elected

South Carolina

400

Amendment that outlawed slavery in the United States

Thirteenth Amendment

500

Issued by Lincoln, the Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves where?

Only in the rebelling states

People/Groups

100

Provided food, clothing, health care, education to both African Americans and white refugees in the South

Freedmen's Bureau

200

Wrote anti-lynching pamphlets after she was run out of town

Ida B. Wells

300

Group led by Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner who insisted that the Confederates must be punished

Radical Republicans

400

Argued that African Americas needed to establish a reputation as hardworking and honest citizens in order to eliminate segregation

Booker T. Washington

500

Southern politicians who aimed to "repair" the South to the way it was prior to the Civil War

Redeemers

1.1

100

This plan called for 10% of state's voters to take an oath of loyalty to the Union in order to rejoin the United States

Lincoln's 10% Plan

200

Guaranteed equality under the law for all citizens

Fourteenth Amendment

300

Was impeached because he fired someone that was protected by the "Office of Tenure Act"

President Andrew Johnson

400

Stated that no citizen can be denied the right to vot because of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude"

Fifteenth Amendment

500

Required over 50% of state's voters to swear loyalty to the United States. This was passed in Congress but never signed by the President.

Wade-Davis Bill

1.2

100

System where the landowner dictated the crop and provided a place to live, seeds, and tools in exchange for a percentage of the crop sales

Sharecropping

200

Nickname given to people who moved from the North into the South to help with Reconstruction

"carpetbaggers"

300

White southern men who had been "locked out" of pre-Civil War politics

Scalawags

400

Act that made it a federal offense to interfere with a citizen's right to vote

Enforcement Acts (Ku Klux Klan Acts)

500

Workers purchased own tools and supplies and paid landowners the right to work the land. Workers then owned the crops but not the land.

Tenant Farming

1.3

100

Ended reconstruction by: electing Hayes as President and removing troops from the South

Compromise of 1877

200

Laws that kept African Americans segregated from white society in the South

Jim Crow laws

300

Required voters to pay a tax to vote

Poll Tax

400

Argued that African Americans should demand full and immediate equality and not limit themselves

W.E.B. DuBois

500

Court case that maintained "seperate but equal" did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment

Plessy vs. Ferguson