Pre-Civil War
This portion of the U.S. relied heavily on agriculture and plantations to make money before the Civil War.
South/Southern States.
This compromise did not allow slavery above the 36/30 line.
Missouri Compromise of 1820.
This was the President of the United States during the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln.
This group of people terrorized African Americans after the Civil War.
Ku Klux Klan.
Who was the first President of the United States?
George Washington.
This portion of the U.S. relied heavily on manufacturing and factories to make money before the Civil War.
North/Northern States.
This amendment banned slavery in the United States.
13th.
This man sued for his freedom for over 11 years, but was ultimately denied in the Supreme Court.
Dred Scott.
This was the name of the time period following the Civil War, where laws were passed to limit the freedoms of African Americans.
Jim Crow Era.
This document separates us from Great Britain.
Declaration of Independence.
This is a tax on imported/exported goods.
Tariffs.
Lincoln wrote this, freeing slaves in the Southern States during the Civil War.
Emancipation Proclamation.
This man wrote a reconstruction plan which involved giving newly freed people $100 dollars and 40 acres of land.
Thaddeus Stevens.
This was a job given to newly freed people after the Civil War, where the landowner and newly freed person would "profit" from crops.
Sharecropping.
This act forced Northerners to become slave catchers, demanding that any run away slaves be returned to their Southern owner.
Fugitive Slave Act
In Louisiana, blacks and whites were forbid to ride on the same train due to this black code.
Louisiana Separate Car Act.
This man wanted to build a railroad through the U.S., and came up with the idea of popular sovereignty. He also ran against Lincoln for President in 1860.
Steven A. Douglas.
A newly freed person could not wander around unless they were working, or else they would be considered a vagrant and would be subject to arrest. This was an example of a...
Black Code.
Other than Lincoln, this was the only other President to be assassinated while in office.
John F. Kennedy.
The idea of popular sovereignty caused a lot of tension in this state, splitting it into two and causing bloodshed.
Abraham Lincoln, Thaddeus Stevens and Congress all wrote these...in order to reconstruct the nation after the Civil War.
Reconstruction Plans.
This man purposefully entered a whites only train car, in order to get arrested to defy the legal system based on his 14th amendment rights.
Homer Plessy.
This was the ruling of the Plessy v. Ferguson case, which allowed for THIS to happen for the next 70 years.
Segregation was legal.
In 1912 this famous boat sank, after it hit an iceberg on its way to the United States.
Titanic.