Causes of Civil War
A Northern politician who can be shaped into the image of a Southern politician.
What is a Doughface?
16th president of the US and President of the Union during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This declaration banned slavery in states that were in open rebellion.
What is Emancipation Proclamation?
The attempt to repair the physical infrastructure and economy in US and the relationship between the North and South.
What is Reconstruction?
Laws that expanded on black codes which denied various rights to African Americans and was named after a minstrel show character.
What is Jim Crow Laws?
The political system and act that would let any new state that enters the Union could vote whether they want slavery or not.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act and Popular Sovereignty?
Union general who believed in a cautious approach to battle.
Who is George McClellan?
Democratic parties new name. They wanted to end war immediately and let the Confederacy be it's own country
What is copperheads?
Republicans that want total equality for African Americans.
What is Radical Republicans?
Designed to provide educational and other opportunities to the formerly enslaved.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
The abolitionist who killed 6 border ruffians and started a rebellion.
Who is John Brown?
Union General who believed in a style of warfare known as total warfare.
A fundamental right in the Constitution that protects against unlawful and indefinite imprisonment
What is Habeus Corpus?
This plan required Confederate States would be required to have 10% of 1860 voters to take an Oath of Loyalty to the country. States would be required to write a new constitution. States were required to abolish slavery.
What is the 10% Plan?
These made it illegal for an African American to lack a job and or a permanent residence.
What is Vagrancy Laws?
The act that required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act.
The goal was to defeat the Confederacy by blockading southern ports and controlling the Mississippi river and take over Richmond. This would cut off and isolate the south from the outside world.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
Politician known for making compromises and known as "The Great Compromiser."
Who is Henry Clay?
Amendment that granted citizenship to all persons "born or naturalized in the United States," including formerly enslaved people, and provided all citizens with “equal protection under the laws.”
What is the 14th Amendment?
Jobs where freed slaves would rent out a piece of land and supply the landowner with a “share” of the crop that they grew.
What is sharecroppers?
The African American who attempted to sue for his freedom after his enslaver died, but failed.
Who is Dred Scott.
A style of war that involves everyone, including civilians. All citizens, not just the military, are guilty of starting a war, and therefore should also pay the consequences.
What is Total Warfare?
Agreement in which the North gets California as a free state and the slave trade ends in DC.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
Amendment that granted African American men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Narrative that describes the Antebellum South as an idealistic place that was altruistic towards African Americans and saw great prosperity.
What is the Lost Cause Narrative?