Slavery affairs
This Act was part of the Compromise of 1850. It stated that every law officer, North or South, was legally bound to help return escaped slaves to their owners. Southerners could pursue their slaves deep into Northern territory and Northern lawmen were obligated to help them track the slaves down.
The Fugitive Slave Act
She was called “The Moses of Her People” and was a conductor on the Underground Railroad for over 10 years.
Harriet Tubman
Southern whites who supported the Radical Republicans, often for selfish reasons.
Scalawags
a secret network of abolitionists that helped 100,000 slaves escape to freedom.
The Underground Railroad
He was known as El Supremo Dictador and ruled for 26 years.
Dr. Jose Gaspar Rodriguez de Francia
It Was Supreme Court pro-slavery ruling. The court ruled that since Scott was born a slave, he wasn’t a citizen & therefore had no right to sue anyone. It also said that the US Congress had no power to take away a slaveholder’s property by designating new territories as free.
The Dred Scott decision
He was the most prominent abolitionist leader of the 1800’s and the first Black citizen to hold high rank in the US government.
Frederick Douglass
The process of restoring the seceded Southern states to the Union. It started when Lincoln instituted military governments in the territories the Union recaptured from seceded southern States in March 1862 and ended with the inauguration of Rutherford B. Hayes in 1877.
The Reconstruction
the most important and widely read abolitionist writing of all time.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
a law that required voters to pay a tax at the polling place in order to exercise their right to vote. Some taxes had a “grandfather clause” that allowed anyone who had voted in the past to continue voting, even if he couldn’t pay.
The Poll Tax
a 1854 law that established the new US territories of Kansas and Nebraska. It allowed for “popular sovereignty” which permitted that people who settled in those territories to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery in their borders. This led to the violence of “Bloody Kansas.”
The Kansas Nebraska Act
a radical abolitionist who raided Harpers Ferry with the hope of using its arsenal to provide weapons and ammunition to arm rebel slaves.
John Brown
Members of Lincoln’s former party who won election to Congress. They wanted to punish the South - SEVERELY - for both the Civil War & Lincoln’s assassination and passed a series of laws, including the 14th and 15th amendments, that granted voting rights and civil rights to all freed slaves in the South.
Radical Republicans
More soldiers died in one day at the Battle of blank than any other American war
The Battle Of Antietam
completed in 1869, would bridge the gap between East and West and become the key to the nation’s westward expansion.
The Transcontinental Railroad
he Union was indignant over Lincoln’s murder and acted quickly on one of his last wishes, the passage of the?
The 13th Amendment
a non radical abolitionist. From the beginning of the Civil War, he justified using force against the South on the basis of upholding the law, preserving the Union and saving the American form of government that provided its citizens with so much liberty.
Abraham Lincoln
greedy opportunists from the North who moved South to win political office. They were known for their cheap luggage made from pieces of old rugs. The Southerners saw them as enemy occupiers.
Carpetbaggers
The end of the Civil War was?
General Lee’s at Appottamox
a law which established requirements to become a new citizen
Required to be “free, white and of good moral character.”
No Natives, indentured servants, slaves, Blacks, and no criminals
Required to live in the US for 2 years and in a single state for 1 year before they could apply for US Citizenship
The Naturalization Act of 1790
By the time of Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address (March 4, 1861), 7 states had already voted to secede. Lincoln saw this as a crime and called for armies to reclaim federal property in the deep south. As a result of his call, how many more seceded?
4
He was known for his philosophy of “hard war” or “total war.” He believed that the Union must punish Confederate soldiers AND civilians whose production of food and weapons made their soldiers’ rebellion possible.
William Tecumseh Sherman
a secret organization of Southerners who resisted the military governments of the Southern states during Reconstruction. Most were former Confederate soldiers who still felt that the South should be left to govern themselves. They strongly opposed the Radical Republicans.
Klu Klux Klan
When the Southern states could write their own laws, they established the
Jim Crow Law’s
This Act made the American West just about the only land anywhere in the world that one didn’t need to be wealthy
The Homestead Act of 1862