Civil War
This was the central cause of the American Civil War
Slavery
True or False: The South won the war and slavery was abolished.
False: The North won the war and slavery was abolished.
These three Amendments are known as the Reconstruction Amendments
13th, 14th, 15th
The separation of black people and white people was called this
Segregation
This 1854 document proposed that the United States should purchase Cuba from Spain, and if Spain refused, justified taking it by force.
What is the Ostend Manifesto?
These were the names of the North and the South during the war
Union and Confederacy
Name 5 states that were part of the south during the war
Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, Virginia
This group helped African Americans get on their feet once they were no longer enslaved
Freedmen's Bureau
This was a hate group that formed during Reconstruction that inflicted terror on African Americans
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
These activists worked to end slavery in the United States and were especially vocal in the years leading up to the Civil War.
What is an abolitionist movement?
During the 1858 debates, this doctrine argued that territories could effectively exclude slavery by not passing laws to protect it, despite the Dred Scott v. Sandford decision.
What is the Freeport Doctrine?
This Civil War Battle that convinced the remaining Southern States to secede.
What is the Battle of Fort Sumter?
Provide 2 examples of a Black Codes
Obey curfew, couldn't rent or own land, arrested for no job, couldn't serve on juries, could only work as servants or farmers for white families, couldn't testify in court
What did the 13th Amendment State?
That slavery was abolished
This 1896 Supreme Court case upheld racial segregation laws under the doctrine of “separate but equal.”
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Name three advantages the North had during the war
These were laws passed during Reconstruction to limit the freedoms of African Americans.
Black Codes which were a precursor for Jim Crow Laws
What did the 15th Amendment state?
Suffrage rights for Black males
This law canceled the Missouri Compromise and made the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, allowed the states to vote on whether slavery was legal or not. It also produced a violent uprising known as “Bleeding Kansas,” as proslavery and antislavery activists flooded into the territories to sway the vote.
What is the Kansas Nebraska Act?
This principle holds that individual states have the authority to make their own laws and decisions, sometimes in opposition to the federal government.
What are states' rights?
Who was leader of the Confederate Army?
General Robert E. Lee
Who assassinated President Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
This man became President after Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
Supreme Court ruling that declared African Americans were not citizens of the United States.
Dred Scott v. Sandford (1858)
This Radical Republican congressman pushed for harsh Reconstruction policies and full rights for formerly enslaved people after the Civil War.
Who is Thaddeus Stevens?