Compromises and Acts
What is a compromise?
Compromise means giving up certain things to make a deal or agreement.
What is a Status Quo?
The current balance of things.
What is the Dred Scott vs Sandford case?
Dred Scott vs Sanford was a court ruling that Dred Scott wasn’t allowed freedom or the rights to sue because he was not considered a citizen and had no legal rights.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
A document President Abraham Lincoln signed stating all slaves in the south were free (free slaves in the Civil War).
What is Segregation?
Putting people apart from each other based on the aspects of the color of their skin.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
The Missouri Compromise was made to maintain peace between the North and the South by keeping the balance of power.
What is Sectionalism?
Us vs them mentality
“If you’re not with us, you’re against us.”
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Frederick Douglass is a runaway slave who shared his story and fought against slavery protesting for equal rights. Famous abolitionist and writer who fought for equal rights for all people.
What is the 13th Amendment?
The amendment that was the abolishment of slavery
What was the Plessy vs Ferguson case?
Racial segregation laws that did not go against the Constitution as long as facilities for colored and white people were equally good.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
The Compromise of 1850 was when California joined the Union as a free state and the Fugitive Act was strengthened.
What is Popular vote or Popular Sovereignty?
Letting the people decide for themselves.
What is Lincoln’s 10% Plan?
For a state to be readmitted by 10% of its pre-war voters had to take an oath of loyalty to the Union for a swift reunion.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Rights, liberty, and citizenship for all no matter race, color, or ethnicity.
What is a Grandfather Clause?
A law stating if your grandfather could not vote, then neither could you.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Acts?
The Kansas-Nebraska Acts allowed for popular sovereignty to determine the issue of slavery in these new territories.
What does it mean to ratify?
To legally or formally confirm or approve something.
What is Johnson’s Reconstruction Plan?
More forgiving than Lincoln’s plan, gave amnesty for more than 7,000 people even high military in the Civil War.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Prohibits denying the right to vote no matter race, color, or ethnicity.
What is a Literacy Test?
A test given to only African Americans and colored people testing their ability to read and write.
Bloody Kansas
A period of violent clashes (Bloody Kansas) where thousands of people moved to Kansas in order to influence the vote.
What does Amnesty mean?
Forgiving, pardoning, or excusing one despite the past actions done.
What was the Radical Republicans Reconstruction Plan?
Less forgiving and wanted justice, wanted to write new state constitutions that guaranteed freedmen rights and treatment and make sure the white men did not take away any of the African Americans rights, more work on reconstruction.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
Laws made to prevent African Americans from their rights and did not violate the US constitution.
What is a Tax Poll?
A fee for if African Americans wanted to vote.