Native American Policy
This system moved Native tribes onto designated lands that were often less fertile than the land they had been removed from.
This 1857 Supreme Court case ruled that Congress could not prohibit slavery in the territories
Dred Scott Decision
This amendment permanently abolished slavery throughout the US
13th amendment
This farming system often trapped African Americans in cycles of debt after the war
Sharecropping
1887 law that broke up tribal land sinto individual plots for native american families
Dawes Act
This phrase describes the fundamental economic differences between the industrial North and the Agrarian South
Sectionalism
This amendment granted citizenship and equal protection under the law to all persons born in the US
14th amendment
This doctrine claimed segregated facilities were legal as long as they were equal in quality, though they rarely were
Separate but Equal OR Plessy v Ferguson
This was the primary purpose of the reservation system?
Removing Natives from valuable/desired land
These three laws, passed by Congress between 1820 and 1854, all attempted to manage the spread of slavery into new territories
Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, Kansas-Nebraska Act
This group in Congress pushed for an agressive Reoconstruction plan and full civil and political rights for African Americans
Radical Republicans
What issue divided Republicans and Radical Republicans the most?
Reentry of Southern States into the Union
Granted 160 acres of land to settlers, accelerating expansion on to Native lands
Homestead Act
Admitted California as free, used Popular Sovereignty elsewhere, and toughened the Fugitive Slave Act
Compromise of 1850
This president favored a quick, lenient reunification for the South, which put him in direct conflict with the rest of Congress
THe post reconstruction low point in American race relations, marked by segregation, violence, and the circumvention of the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments
The Nadir
US Policy pressuring Native americans to abandon their culture in favor of white american customs
Assimilation
The Dredd Scott decision struck down this earlier compromise which had used a geographic line to divide free and slave territory
Missouri Compromise
This amendment protected the right to vote regardless of race.
15th amendment
These southern laws enforced racial segregation and used tactics like poll taxes and literacy tests to disenfranchise black voters
Jim Crow Laws