ANTEBELLUM PERIOD
ALONG WITH WESTWARD EXPANSION, BREAKDOWN OF COMPROMISES AND SECTIONALISM, THIS WAS THE MAIN CAUSE OF THE CIVIL WAR.
WHAT IS SLAVERY?
These states had the better military leaders, more skilled soldiers, and changed their name to this when they seceded from the Union in 1861.
What is the Confederate States of America?
This president was impeached for violating a new law called the Tenure of Office Act when he tried to fire his Secretary of War who supported Congress’ plan.
Who is President Andrew Johnson?
Belief that the U.S. was destined by God populate the unsettled land in the West
What is Manifest Destiny?
THIS ACT GAVE KANSAS AND NEBRASKA THE RIGHT TO VOTE ON WHETHER THEY WOULD BE A SLAVE STATE OR A FREE STATE. UNINTENTIONALLY REOPENING UP THE QUESTION OF WHETHER SLAVERY WOULD BE PERMITTED IN SOME WESTERN TERRITORIES.
WHAT IS THE KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT?
THIS COMPROMISE ADMITTED MISSOURI AS A SLAVE STATE, MAINE AS A FREE STATE AND SAID ANYTHING ABOVE THE 36’ 30” WAS A FREE STATE.
WHAT IS THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE?
President Lincoln signed this, which only freed the slaves in the states that were still rebelling against the Union.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Sharecropping led to freedmen not being able to pay their debts to their landlord and soon falling into this, which is another word for debt slavery.
What is Debt Peonage?
Homestead life was difficult on the Great Plains. Homesteaders had to live on these because there were a limited number of trees.
What are Sod Houses?
This act allowed the capture/return of escaped slaves, but if you were free, you were still in danger of being captured and sold into slavery.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
IN THIS CASE, WHICH TOOK PLACE IN 1857, THE SUPREME COURT RULED THAT BLACK PEOPLE WERE NOT CITIZENS AND COULD NOT SUE IN COURT.
WHAT IS THE SCOTT V. SANFORD?
This Plan proposed by General Scott would strangle the South with a naval blockade of Southern ports. Also, use the Northern naval power to seize control of the Mississippi and divide the confederacy in two.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
This compromise officially ended the Reconstruction period when the Democrats agreed to vote for Hayes as president if federal troops were removed from the South
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This was a national association of farmers’ social clubs. The goal was to:
1.Break the rural isolation of farmers
2.Spread information about new farming techniques.
This act granted 160 acres of land for $1.65 an acre after 6 months but free if they farmed it for 5 years.
What is the Homestead Act?
SOUTHERNERS BELIEVED THAT BECAUSE OF THIS PRESIDENT'S VICTORY IN 1860, SLAVERY WOULD END.
WHO IS PRESIDENT LINCOLN?
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
This supreme court case upheld racial segregation, and ruled that separate was okay, just as long as it was equal. Huge problem was that it was never equal.
What is the Plessy V. Ferguson?
The leaders of the Farmers’ Alliances formed a new national political party known as the “People’s Party” or this
What is the Populist Party?
This act provided for the construction of a transcontinental railroad by the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroad companies to connect the U.S. from coast to coast.
What is the Pacific Railway Act?
Fighting between people who were Pro slavery vs people who were anti slavery because of the Kansas Nebraska Act
What is Bleeding Kansas?
This Union General took the "Scorched Earth" approach when he took this March to Sea.
These discriminatory laws restricted
blacks from serving on juries, testifying against whites in court, marrying whites, or owning land
What are black codes?
These laws regulated grain storage and railroad rates
What are the Granger Laws?
This Act called for the break-up of reservations and the introduction of natives into American life. By 1932, 2/3rds of the land committed to Natives had been taken. It attempted to assimilate the Natives.
What is the Dawes Act?