Terms
A term used against Northerners who came to the Southern states to get financial gain from reconstruction
What is carpetbaggers
a series of laws enacted in 1820 to maintain the balance of power between slave states and free states
What is the Missouri Compromise
The American politician who served as the president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865
What is Jefferson Davis
The first battle of the Civil War
What is Fort Sumter
a series of laws enacted in 1820 to maintain the balance of power between slave states and free states
What is te Missouri Compromise
A white Southerner who collaborated with northern Republicans during Reconstruction, often for personal profit
What is a scalawag
a ruling after California became a state that allows slaveholders to retrieve runaway slaves
What is the Fugitive Slave Act
the General from Virginia that led the Confederacy
What is Robert E. Lee
the time period before the Civil War
What is Antebellum
Lincoln pledge to not attack slavery but warned he would preserve the Union
What is the 1st Inaugural Address
the name given to the confederacy
What is rebels
an 1854 law that allowed the territories of kansas and nebraska popular sovereity
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act
the General from Virginia that led the Confederacy
What is Robert E. Lee
battle that took place in Virginia manassas where the Confederacy beat the Union
What is The battle of bull run
a system in which the residents vote to decide an issue
What is Popular sovereitgy
The time period before the Civil War
What is Antebellum
Granted citizenship to all americans regardless of race
What is the 14th admentment
The American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865
What is Abraham Lincoln
13,000 confederate soilders charged toward the union lines in the battle of gettysburg
the system the U.S government used to readmit the confederate states after the civil war
What is Reconstruction
The White Supremacist who attacked blacks. Also known as "circle of friends"
What is Klu Klux Klan
Citizens cannot be denied the right to vote because of race, color , or precious condition of servitude
What is the 15th admendment
the man who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
the batle was the bloodiest day in american history with 25k deaths
Antietam
plan by winfield scott to bloackade the south
What is the Anaconda Plan