The Civil War
Law that Abolished slavery and involuntary servitude in the U.S. and its territories, except as a punishment for crime; established after the civil war
What is the 13th Amendment?
A U.S. government agency of early post American Civil War Reconstruction, assisting freedmen (i.e., former enslaved people) in the South.
What is the Freedman's bureau?
was enacted in 1854 to establish civil authority and secure land in the Kansas and Nebraska territories, where no civil authority existed
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
What side of the nation wanted and supported slavery?
What is the south?
16th president of the United States; led the United States through the American Civil War, defeating the Confederate States of America, playing a major role in the abolition of slavery, expanding the power of the federal government, and modernizing the U.S. economy.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Delivered four months the bloodiest battle in the civil war; Redefined the War as a struggle for human equality, not just preservation of Union
What is the Gettysburg Address?
An American Protestant-led Christian extremist, white supremacist, far-right hate group. It was founded in 1865 during Reconstruction in the south
What is the ku klux klan?
A case heard by the Supreme Court two days after Buchanan took office, where Scott, a former slave, sued for his freedom. The Court ruled that enslaved people were property, not citizens, and that Congress couldn't regulate slavery in the territories.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
Efforts to claim Southwest from Mexico (failed attempt to buy territory); Challenged Mexican authorities on Texas border; Mexican attack on American troops
What is the Mexican-American War?
Drafted and proposed the Compromise of 1850; Clarified the final boundaries of Texas; Proposed banning slavery in the entire Mexican Cession and wanted stringent Fugitive Slave Act
Who is Henry clay?
First battle fought in the East where the Union wasn't completely defeated; Union claimed victory and showed Britain and France that they weren't a lost cause.
What is the battle of Antietam?
Plan established Reconstruction Acts, U.S. legislation enacted in 1867–68 that outlined the conditions under which the Southern states would be readmitted to the Union following the American Civil War (1861–65). The bills were largely written by the ____ in the U.S. Congress.
What is the radical republicans?
Federal laws in the United States that provided for the seizure and return of runaway enslaved people; The 1850 act required all captured slaves to be returned to their masters, even in free states.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
Purchase of southern regions of modern Arizona and New Mexico for transcontinental railroad
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
Defender of slavery and opposed the Compromise, Advocate for states’ rights and secession, popular sovereignty for Mexican Cession territories
Who is John Calhoun?
A presidential proclamation and executive order issued during the American Civil War. The Proclamation had the effect of changing the legal status of more than 3.5 million enslaved African Americans in the secessionist Confederate states from enslaved to free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
A system of agriculture instituted in the American South during the period of Reconstruction after the Civil War. It replaced the plantation system and created a new system of bondage. Sharecropping was one of the few options for penniless freedmen to farm and support themselves and their families during Reconstruction
What is Sharecropping?
An effort by an abolitionist from October 16 to 18, 1859, to initiate a slave revolt in Southern states by taking over the United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia
What is John Brown’s raid?
A Congressional bill created to prohibit extension of slavery in territories gained from Mexico
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
Supported the Compromise to preserve the Union and avert Civil War; Characterized himself "as an American" in the Seventh of March speech; Risked offending abolitionist voter base by accepting the Compromise
Who is Daniel Webster?
The period of 1865-1877 and the process of readmitting southern states, rebuilding physical damage, and integrating newly freed Blacks into society
What is Reconstruction?
An unwritten political agreement that resolved the disputed 1876 presidential election between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel Tilden. This compromise effectively ended the Reconstruction Era by withdrawing federal troops from the South, allowing Southern states to re-establish white Democratic control, which led to the implementation of Jim Crow laws.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
Sentimental novel depicting plantation life based on information from abolitionist friends; Sold over a million copies and adapted into popular plays that toured America and Europe
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Treaty signed that gave us peaceful ownership of Oregon, Washington, and parts of Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana; also established current northern border of the region
What is the Oregon Treaty?
Worked with Henry Clay to hammer out a workable solution, the Compromise of 1850; involved in major legislation, including the controversial Kansas-Nebraska Act. Also supported the prohibition of slavery through the Missouri Compromise and popular sovereignty
Who is Stephen Douglas?