Sectionalism/Reform Movements
What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act allow voters to do regarding slavery?
Allowed territories to vote on slavery.
Define sectionalism
The west, south, and north had different economies and political interests.
What does antebellum mean?
Before Civil War
What was the purpose of Jim Crow Laws?
Segregation
What is Manifest Destiny?
Americans had the right, granted by God, to expand west.
What was John Brown?
An abolitionist
What was the main reason why the south did not like the American system?
They did not agree with the tariffs
What was the main purpose of Sherman's "March to the Sea?"
To limit the south's ability to fight in the war.
What was the impact of black codes?
Kept Freedmen in a virtual state of slavery.
Limited African-American's lives.
Under which law was the Fugitive Slave Act created?
Compromise of 1850
What was the main topic at the Seneca Falls Convention?
Giving women the right to vote.
Vote
Describe the Freedmen's Bureau
Helped Freedmen find jobs, housing, etc.
Which purchase, bought from France, doubled the size of the U.S?
Louisiana Purchase
Who was Frederick Douglass?
Escaped slave, abolitionist.
The Nullification Crisis of 1832 was mainly about
southern opposition to tariffs.
What was the significance of 54th Massachusetts?
being the first all-black regiment in the U.S. Army.
This court case established "separate but equal."
Plessy v. Ferguson
What was the impact the cotton gin had on the demand for slavery?
Increased the demand.
Under the Dred Scott decision, the American government ruled enslaved people as
property
The Radical Reconstruction plan is seen as a failure. Why?
Failed to protect Freedmen's rights.
Name AND describe the 3 Reconstruction Plans
10 %-10 % of all southern voters had to pledge their loyalty to the Union, abolish slavery in their Constitution.
Johnson's-Granted southerners amnesty, had to abolish slavery
Congressional (radical)-split the south into 5 military districts