Reconstruction
The Civil War ended with the surrender at this courthouse
Appomattox
Attack on Fort Sumter
This abolitionist was arrested and executed for trying to start a rebellion of enslaved people
John Brown
This organization was responsible for the supervision and management of all matters relating to the refugees and freedmen and lands abandoned or seized during the Civil War
Freedmen's Bureau
The Wilmot Proviso aimed to
Prohibit slavery in the newly acquired territory from Mexico
This amendment eliminated slavery in the United States
This announcement freed enslaved people in the rebelling states
Emancipation Proclamation
This war led to discussions about the expansion of slavery into the West
The Mexican-American War
This nativist political party disliked immigrants especially the Irish and were anti catholic
The Know-Nothing Party or The American Party
This treaty ends the Mexican-American War
The treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Black Codes
The South had this advantage over the North at the beginning of The Civil War
Experienced military leadership
This event most directly leads to the Secession of the South
The Election of 1860 - Abraham Lincoln
Popular sovereignty was the idea proposed that
Settlers in a territory could decide whether slavery would exist there or not
This national political party faded through the 1850's as slavery became a more central issue.
The Whig Party
This amendment establishes birthright citizenship and the 'due process clause'.
The 14th amendment
The North had this advantage over the South at the beginning of the war.
More access to manpower, infrastructure, manufacturing (any of these)
This novel depicted the realities of being enslaved, credited by Abraham Lincoln as the book that began the Civil War
Uncle Tom's Cabin
These Republicans advocated for the rights of Black citizens and wanted to punish and control Southern states and former confederates. (Adjective)
Radical Republicans
The Kansas-Nebraska Act led to these outcomes (Need 1)
The establishment of popular sovereignty in Kansas
Bleeding Kansas - violent conflict in the territory between pro slavery and anti slavery groups
This amendment established the right to vote regardless of race or previous servitude.
The 15th amendment
Habeas Corpus
The Supreme Court opinion that excluded African-Americans from citizenship rights in the United States
The Dred Scott decision
This 'invisible empire' was founded by former confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest. It vandalized and burned Black owned buildings, intimated and murdered Black freedmen, and disrupted voting.
The Ku Klux Klan
The Compromise of 1850 introduced these (Name two)
Admit California as a free state
Ban the slave trade in Washington D.C.
Created a new Fugitive Slave Law and enforcement
Texas ceded land to New Mexico, the US assumed Texas debt
Utah and New Mexico territories were created