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Lincoln's "plan" to bring the Confederate States into the Union after the Civil War.
What is the 10% plan?
Harriet Beecher Stowe published this novel depicting slavery as cruel and gave a face to slavery for those who had never witnessed it
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Laws that effectively limited the social and political power of black people in the south after the Civil War
What are the black codes?
A system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a portion of the crop.
What is sharecropping?
This Constitutional principle says that "people are the key source of governmental power and that government is conducted with the consent of the governed".
What is popular sovereignty?
Document that declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the Confederate states "are, and hence forward shall be free.“
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Greater population, greater industrial build-up, and greater financial resources
What are reasons why the Union (north) beat the Confederacy (south) in the Civil War?
Harriet Tubman, John Brown, William LLoyd Garrison, and Frederick Douglass, to name a few
Who are abolitionists?
Post-war Federal program that provided food, clothing, and education to African-Americans and white refugees in the South
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This 1800's real estate purchase cost $15 million!
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
White Southerners who aggressively fought to reverse the political and racial changes of reconstruction.
Who are redeemers?
What we call the regional conflict between Northern and Southern states
What is Sectional Conflict or Sectionalism?
The president during first stage of reconstruction
Who was Andrew Johnson?
Known as the "Great Compromiser"
Who is Henry Clay?
The Compromise of 1850 called for the enforcement of what law that required slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state
What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
Where the Missouri Compromise line outlawed slavery
What is north of the 36/30 latitude line?
This treaty ceded most of present-day California, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona from Mexico to the United States
What is the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
The trans-atlantic crossing of imprisoned Africans on slave ships from Africa to the Americas
What is the middle passage?
The agreement that admitted California as a free state while permitting popular sovereignty in the territories and enacting a stricter fugitive slave law
What is The Compromise of 1850?
Amendment that gave black citizens the right to vote
What is the 15th Amendment?
Defined citizenship as anyone born in the United States
What is the 14th Amendment?
The amendment that prohibited slavery
What is the 13th?
The clauses that was used to restrict African-American voting rights
What is Grandfather clauses?
This Supreme Court case upheld slavery in United States territories, denied the legality of black citizenship in America, and declared the Missouri Compromise to be unconstitutional.
What was the Dred Scott decision? Will accept Scott vs. Sanford
20,000 Estimated Numbers of Blacks who Fled to Canada was one (of many) of the effects of the....
What is the fugitive slave act?