Economy & Society During the War
Northern economic strength surged due to industrial production and this new income policy.
The Income Tax
This famous regiment demonstrated the bravery of Black Union soldiers.
54th Massachusetts
This amendment guaranteed Black male suffrage.
15th Amendment
Sharecropping kept African Americans in this economic condition.
Debt peonage or poverty
This 1776 document argued that governments derive “their just powers from the consent of the governed.”
Declaration of Independence
The Confederacy struggled economically especially after this Union naval strategy took effect.
The Anaconda Plan
After the Civil War some freed blacks looked to the west for free land thanks to this 1862 Act.
Homestead Act
This Supreme Court decision upheld segregated facilities as “separate but equal.”
Plessey v. Ferguson
These agreements often forced Black laborers to stay with employers under threat of arrest.
Labor contracts
This 1820 agreement temporarily settled the slavery issue by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
Compromise of 1820 (Missouri)
This national currency, printed during the war, helped fund Union operations.
Greenbacks
Congress passed this legislation enacting reconstruction in 1867
Reconstruction Act of 1867
This 1866 law (later overridden after Johnson’s veto) defined citizenship regardless of race.
Civil Rights Act of 1866
The Panic of 1873 shifted national attention away from Reconstruction toward this issue.
Economic depression
This 1845 phrase, coined by journalist John L. O’Sullivan, justified U.S. territorial expansion.
Manifest Destiny
Inflation became extreme in the South due to this key wartime shortage.
Food
This Southern terror organization used violence and intimidation to restricts African American rights.
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
Lincoln suspended this Constitutional right during the Civil War.
Habeas Corpus
This election's dispute over electoral votes would ultimately lead to the end of Reconstruction.
Election of 1876
This 1832–33 conflict, involving South Carolina’s resistance to federal tariffs, tested the balance between state and federal power.
The Nullification Crisis
The rise of ________ shifted in the North labor from farms to factories.
Industrialization
These 1865 letters between a freedman and his former enslaver highlighted demands for wages and dignity.
Jourdan Anderson letters.
Besides citizenship, what right is protected by the 14th Amendment
Due Process
With the end of Reconstructions, Southern states begin passing these laws restricting rights of African Americans.
Jim Crow Laws
This 1848 meeting in New York produced a declaration demanding women’s rights, modeled closely on the Declaration of Independence.
The Seneca Falls Convention