Pre CW
CW
Reconstruction
The West
Potpourri
100
This compromise line divided the North and South into free and slave territories.
36 30' or Missouri Compromise line
100
Three Causes of the Civil War (all start with S)
Slavery
Sectionalism
States Rights
100
This agency was established to help newly emancipated people
Freedmen's Bureau
100
This law was enacted to entice Americans to move west and farm the land for little to no cost
The Homestead Act
100
This battle was the start of the Civil War
Ft Sumter
200
This was the unintended consequence of the Kansas Nebraska Act
Bleeding Kansas
200
this strategy is illustrated below
Anaconda Plan
Naval Blockade
200
Plessy v. Ferguson established this infamous doctrine
"Separate but equal"
200
Sharecropping and Tenant Farming led to this vicious cycle being tied to the land
Debt Peonage
300
The Ostend Manifesto had to do with these the united states acquiring this country from a European Power by purchase or force
Cuba from Spain
300
General Sherman was viewed negatively due to his use of this controversial tactic where he brough the war to the Civilian population
Total War
300
The three reconstruction amendments accomplished these three things
13th: Ended Slavery
14th: Gave Citizenship to all born in the US
15th: could not bar anyone from voting based on color of skin, ethnicity or previous condition of servitude
300
This goal of the US government can be seen through actions such as the Dawes Act and the formation of Indian Schools
Assimilation of Natives to American customs
300
This set of laws were used to enforce segregation in the south
Jim Crow Laws
400
The outcome of the Dredd Scott case
1 Black Americans Could not be citizens regardless of free or not
2 No state could limit slavery
400
This document changed the goals of the War from simple reunification to the subject of its contents
Emancipation Proclomation
400
The 1876 election was tainted when Republican Rutherford B. Hayes allegedly traded his Presidential Victory in return for this
The militaries withdrawal from the South
400
This group advocated for full equality for newly freed Black Americans and harsher punishments towards the South
Radical Republicans
500
These were the effects of the Compromise of 1850
1 California would be a free state
2 The Southwest territories would be open to Slavery
3 the slave Trade would be outlawed in DC
4 The passage of the Fugitive Slave Act
500
These two battles served as a major turning point due to these two reasons
1 Gettysburg: South will be on the run from then on out
2 Vicksburg: Control of the Mississippi River cutting the south in half
500
This action was what lead to President Johnsons impeachment however not his removal from office
His firing of the secretary of state violating the Tenure of Office act