Long Term Causes of the Civil War
This earlier war with a southern neighbor resulted in us gaining territories like Arizona, California, and New Mexico
The Mexican - American War
This made Abraham Lincoln a known, and arguably famous, politician across the country not just in Illinois
Lincoln - Douglass Debates ("A House divided cannot stan")
What was Lincoln's main goal of his presidency and theme of the Gettysburg address?
Preserve the Union
Johnson's plan was different from Lincoln's because he did not focus as much on
African American's civil rights
Reconstruction of the South officially ended in this year
1877
These key sectional, or regional, differences between the North and South contributed to the Civil War.
Northern industrial (factory) way of life, Southern agriculture (farming) way of life
This method of deciding the issue of slavery was used in both the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas- Nebraska Act leading to more violence and political fights over the issue of slavery
These were the South's military strengths during the civil war
Lincoln created the concept for this government agency. It would have provided housing and built public schools for newly freed African Americans
Freedman's Bureau
Name the three types of voter restrictions used against African Americans during Jim Crow
Grandfather clauses, poll taxes, literacy tests
Why are westward expansion and manifest destiny considered long-term causes of the Civil War?
Led to a mass migration of Americans and as a result the admittance of new states to the union (will those states allow slavery or not?)
The election of this republican candidate in 1860 was the last straw for the Southern States
Abraham Lincoln
Sherman's March to the sea used this kind of military tactic
slash and burn; total warfare
This phase of reconstruction included splitting the South into military districts and having a lot of federal government oversight
Congressional or Radical Reconstruction
Sharecropping can be described as . . .
a system where a landowner allows the tenant to use and live on the land in return for a share of their harvest as a rent/ lease payment
Fugitive Slave Act
Raid of Harpers Ferry
These were the North's military strengths during the Civil War
Infrastructure (railroads/ trains), communication (telegraph), industry, more people/ higher population
Reconstruction is considered a failure by most historians because . . .
it did not focus on African Americans civil rights and led to the rise of the Jim Crow South/ increased racial tensions
This Supreme Court case ruled that segregation was legal as long as facilities were "separate but equal"
Plessy v. Ferguson (1897)
This grew as a result of the Fugitive Slave Act which upset Southerners
Underground Railroad
This supreme court case decided that African Americans were not citizens but property
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
Why is the Battle of Gettysburg considered a turning point in the Civil War?
Last time the South attacked Northern territory
Discrimination and hate groups like this one increased during the Reconstruction era
KKK (Ku Klux Klan)
Passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Civil Rights Movement of the 60s - MLK)