Govt Action during
Civil War
Civil War
This was important because it enlarged the purpose of the Civil War by stating this was a war against slavery. Now Union armies were openly fighting against slavery, not merely against secession.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This would be granted to most Confederates who took an oath of allegiance to the Union and the U.S. Constitution, and accepted the emancipation of slaves.
What is a presidential pardon?
It declared that all persons born or naturalized in the United States were citizens.
What is the 14th Amendment?
These were established during Reconstruction to prepare African American ministers and teachers; examples include Howard, Fisk, and Morehouse.
What are black colleges and universities (now referred to as "historic black colleges and universities" - HBCUs)?
Under this, the landlord provided the seed and needed farm supplies in return for ~50% of the harvest; evolved into a new form of servitude.
What is sharecropping?
November 19, 1863: Lincoln rallied Americans to the idea that their nation was “dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal” in this famous speech.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
Lincoln's Reconstruction plan said that a state government could be reestablished and accepted as legitimate after the Civil War as soon as this % of the voters in that state took the loyalty oath.
What is 10%?
“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”
What is the 13th Amendment?
Scandal that involved the construction of the transcontinental railroad, where Union Pacific executives used a shell company to inflate costs and then bribe politicians.
What is the Crédit Mobilier scandal?
In this compromise, the Democrats would allow Hayes to become president. In return, he would immediately end federal support for the Republicans in the South, and support the building of a Southern transcontinental railroad.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
Promoted settlement of the Great Plains by offering parcels of 160 acres of public land free to any person or family that farmed that land for at least five years.
What is the Homestead Act (1862)?
This man, Lincoln's VP and President after Lincoln's assassination, was a white supremacist who did not believe that the war was fought to liberate African Americans from slavery.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
An amendment we have heard a lot about includes the clauses for “equal protection of the laws” and “due process of law.”
What is the 14th Amendment?
This "boss" of the local NYC Democratic Party masterminded dozens of schemes for helping himself and his cronies steal $200 million from taxpayers before being arrested and imprisoned.
Who is William Tweed ("Boss Tweed")?
The Pacific Railway Act of 1862 authorized the building of this over a northern route.
What is a transcontinental railroad?
This bureau acted as a welfare agency, providing food, shelter, and medical aid for both Black and White Americans left destitute by the war.
What is Freedmen's Bureau?
Prohibited any state from denying or abridging a citizen’s right to vote “on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”
What is the 15ht Amendment?
This hate group was founded in 1867 by a former Confederate general; burned Black-owned buildings and flogged and murdered several thousand freedmen to keep them from exercising their voting rights.
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
During the Civil War, Lincoln suspends this practice of bringing a person before the court to determine the legality of their detention can be determined; "to have the body" in Latin.
What is the write of habeas corpus?
Nickname for Republican Congressmen who championed civil rights for Black citizens after the war along with women’s suffrage and rights for labor unions.
What are Radical Republicans?
A derogatory term used by Southern Democrats to refer to Northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War, often seen as opportunists exploiting the region's situation for personal gain or political power
What is a "carpetbagger"?
Southern state legislatures adopted these codes that restricted the rights and movements of African Americans. Be careful when you answer...they are nothing to "crow" about.
What are Black Codes?