Important People
This made it legal for slave owners to go after and capture runaway slaves
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
to leave the union
What is secession/to secede?
These laws legalized segregation in the South
What are Jim Crow Laws?
this confederate general is viewed as the figurehead of the early Ku Klux Klan
Who is Nathan Bedford Forrest?
The Supreme Court case where it was determined that slaves are not citizens
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
a term that means "to set free"
What is emancipation/to emancipate?
This extended the rights of citizenship to African-Americans. It includes equal rights and due process, regardless of the individual, if they are a US Citizen
What is the 14th Amendment?
The site where John Brown staged his raid on a US Weapons depot, helping to trigger the Civil War
What is Harper's Ferry, VA?
2 Parts: An act that left slavery concerns up to the popular vote, and the violent nickname it led to
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act/ "Bleeding Kansas"?
Two Parts:A Southerner who supported the Radical Reconstruction plan of the South/Northerner who moved south to take advantage of southern chaos
What is a scalawag/carpetbagger?
This group wanted to make sure the South accepted that slavery was over & that former slaves were free, safe & could make an honest living
What are Radical Republicans?
This release is credited with bringing back the KKK when it had nearly died out
What is "Birth of a Nation"?
Famously said "A house divided against itself cannot stand", when referring to the need to keep the Union together
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Two Parts: The act that symbolically ended slavery in the South & the one that actually did
What are the Emancipation Proclamation & the 13th Amendment?
The concept that states should be able to how they feel about the issue of slavery
What is popular sovereignty?
Organization that was supposed to provide emergency aid to the post-war South, helping whites and blacks alike
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
These two battles were the bloodiest single day of the Civil War and the war's turning point
What are Antietam & Gettysburg?
These US Senators were involved in violence (caning) on the Senate Floor over slavery issues.
Who are Sumner & Brooks (Sumner-Brooks Affair)?
These 3 aspects prevented African-American suffrage in The Black Codes
What are literacy tests, poll taxes & the grandfather clause?
Two Parts:poor farmers who rented land from a landowner and paid rent with their harvest / the separation of people, often by race
What is sharecropping/ segregation?
Violating this nearly got Andrew Johnson impeached by both houses of congress
What is the Tenure of Office Act?
His involvement in this put Abraham Lincoln on the map, helping giving him name recognition that helped him win the Presidency
What are the Lincoln-Douglas debates?