Buildup to War
This policy led to California being admitted as a free state, but in other territory acquired from Mexico, voters would decide the slavery issue for themselves.
Compromise of 1850
Opponent to Abraham Lincoln in the 1858 Illinois senate race. Their debates were known for discussing the morality of slavery.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
The period of American history immediately following the Civil War. Its main goals were to rebuild the nation after the war and reintegrate the former Confederate states.
What is Reconstruction?
What is Lincoln's 10% Plan?
This 1863 speech was given by President Abraham Lincoln to commemorate the establishment of the nation's first national cemetery.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
A law making it a crime to help African Americans escape from slavery.
Fugitive Slave Law
General of the Confederate Army for the entirety of the US Civil War.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
This agency was established early into Reconstruction, assisting freedmen of the South.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This plan for Reconstruction was motivated by three main factors:
1. Revenge
2. Concern for the freedmen
3. Political concerns
What is the Radical Republican's Plan?
This document proclaimed that all persons held as slaves within the rebellious states are, and henceforward shall be free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
A Supreme Court decision that ruled that African Americans were not citizens and, therefore, were not entitled to sue in the courts.
The Dred Scott Decision
General of the Army for the Union forces during the US Civil War from 1864 until the Confederate Surrender.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This extremist group emerged out of response to the US Reconstruction Policy in the South.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This plan for Reconstruction involved the following:
1. Pardons granted to those who take an oath of loyalty.
2. A state needed to abolish slavery before being readmitted to the union.
3. A state was required to repeal its secession ordinance before being readmitted.
What is Andrew Johnson's Plan?
What is the 13th Amendment?
A popular book published in 1852 that outlined the case against slavery.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
President of the Confederacy during the U.S. Civil War.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
This faction of the Republican Party advocated for the harshest punishment against the Southern States who seceded from the Union.
Who are the Radical Republicans?
This plan for Reconstruction involved the following:
1. A state must have a majority within its borders take an oath of loyalty.
2. A state must formally abolish slavery.
3. No Confederate officials could participate in the new governments.
What is the Radical Republican compromise to Lincoln's plan?
This Amendment to the United States Constitution granted citizenship to all persons "born or naturalized in the United States," to include formerly enslaved people.
What is the 14th Amendment (1868)?
A network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States during the 1800s to assist slaves in their effort to escape the south.
What is the Underground Railroad?
Prominent Union general during the Civil War. Best known for his "March to the Sea" campaign which involved a scorched earth policy.
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?
What is sharecropping?
This was an unwritted agreement that resolved the election of 1876 and brought about an end to Reconstruction.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal government and each state from denying or abridging a citizens right to vote "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
What is the 15th Amendment (1870)?