Pre-Civil War
This War led to the United States acquiring the land we currently live in.
What is the Mexican American War?
This was the percentage of the US population that died in the Civil War
What is 2%?
He became the President after Lincoln was assassinated and was the first ever President to be impeached.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside"
What is the 14th Amendment?
This is the method by which America elects a President.
What is the Electoral College?
A white nationalist terrorist group that sought to disenfranchise African Americans.
Who are the KKK?
The belief that the United States has the Divine Right to conquer the land of North America.
What is Manifest Destiny?
"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal" from the Gettysburg Address is a direct reference to which of the foundational U.S. documents?
What is the Declaration of Independence?
It was a federal institution designed to protect the rights of formerly enslaved people and to help provide avenues for social mobility.
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction"
What is the 13th Amendment?
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
What is the 10th Amendment?
This process of receiving a portion of the crop in return for working the land often trapped formerly enslaved people in a cycle of continued debt.
What is Sharecropping?
It ended the Mexican-American War with the US paying $15 million for a massive amount of land.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
It freed the enslaved people in all the territories that had seceded from the Union.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
It was a set of laws that were designed to create a system of slavery, but just by a different name.
What are the black codes?
It made it illegal to restrict the voting rights of men based on race.
What is the 15th Amendment?
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, house, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures.
What is the 4th Amendment?
The first African American elected to the US Senate.
Who is Hiram Revels?
A Supreme Court case in 1857 ruled that African Americans were not citizens and that Congress could not prohibit slavery in the federal territories.
What is the Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This government leader once believed that the US government should help create a free colony for all African Americans that was outside the United States.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
It resulted in the Election of Rutherford B. Hayes and essentially ended Reconstruction.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
It's the most cited clause of all time in Supreme Court cases.
What is the Equal Protection Clause?
This former enslaved person escaped captivity and went on to become one of the most influential leaders in American history. He famously asked the American people "What to a Slave is the Fourth of July"?
Who is Frederick Douglass?
A period of time when the majority of Confederate monuments were erected as a method of relitigating the Civil War and attempting to intimidate African American citizens in the South.
What is the Jim Crow Era?
This Supreme Court Chief Justice issued the worst decision in history when he wrote "the black men had no rights the white man was bound to respect."
Who is Robert Taney?
It's the term Historian Eric Foner uses to describe the Civil War. Its centered around the notion that the Civil War fundamentally created a New Nation.
What is the Second Founding?
It promised formerly enslaved people 40 acres and a mule.
What is Special Field Order No. 15?
Together, they effectively overturned the Supreme Court Decision in Dred Scott V. Sandford?
What are the 13th and 14th Amendments?
It's how many members of Congress there are. It includes both the House and the Senate
What is 535?
What are the Reconstruction Acts of 1867?