Before the Civil War
The direction that Americans went to get land for cheap from the US government
West
While the South had better Generals, the North had a more diverse & stronger economy, a bigger population, and larger industries with many more ______ to produce war materials
factories
This group terrorized Black Americans after the Civil War in an effort to keep White Supremacy in control of the South
Ku Klux Klan
The Civil Rights Cases (1883) tried before the Supreme Court took away many of the protections given to African Americans in the Civil Rights Act of 1875 and paved the way for this to become legal for the next 100 years in the US
segregation
Jefferson Davis had no control over the Confederacy, unlike his northern counterpart ______ ______
Abraham Lincoln
The idea that Americans were destined to take over the continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean
Manifest Destiny
This Confederate General led his army for the entire war and invaded the US twice in his attempts to capture Washington DC
This plan, seen as the more forgiving option for Reconstruction, was proposed by Lincoln to let the South reenter the Union fairly easily
10 percent plan
This Federal Agency was created by Radical Republicans in Congress to help newly freed slaves
Freedmen's Bureau
This war helped reignite the slave issue by adding new land to the US and then having to figuring out how to bring those lands into the Union peacefully
The infamous Supreme Court case that claimed that black people could not be citizens and that taking a slave to a free state did not give that slave freedom
The Dred Scott Case
Lincoln was convinced to issue the ________ _______ by Radical Republicans to ensure that the South would not gain support from European countries
Emancipation Proclamation
Radical Reconstruction was undertaken by Radical Republicans in Congress to reform Southern states and Protect African Americans through the use of ______ power
Federal
The Civil Rights Act of 1875 was the last piece of federal legislation passed in the Reconstruction period and might have ended segregation before it started if this man had actually enforced the law as President
Ulysses S Grant
John Brown was an abolitionist/terrorist that wanted to free slaves, arm them, and start a revolution to end slavery, just like as had happened in this country
Haiti
The Compromise of 1850 included California being added to the Union as a free state, the end of the slave trade in Washington DC, and most importantly the strengthening of this
The Fugitive Slave Act
This Union General was famous/infamous for marching into the South and destroying their cities using total war methods
General William Tecumseh Sherman
This farming system kept poor black and white farmers in debt to their landowner who would take his payments from the farmers harvest and keep them in debt
sharecropping
Radical Republicans passed Constitutional Amendments to help protect African Americans because they saw Southern states passing these laws to take away their rights
Black Codes
Many events leading up to the Civil War helped push Pro and Anti Slavery forces to the extremes. One of the most important was this law that overturned the Missouri Compromise and made one state bleed
Uncle Tom's Cabin, written by this author, took the country by storm with her description of what slavery was actually like in the United States
Harriet Beecher Stowe
This General came up with the Anaconda Plan, the military strategy to block the South's cost with the US Navy
General Winfield Scott
The Election of 1876 saw a Democratic candidate win the popular vote but not become president because Republicans in Congress said he lost three Southern states. As a result, Congress agreed on the Compromise of 1877 and this man became President
Rutherford B Hayes
This woman helped create the National Woman Suffrage Association because she felt that women's rights were being ignored
Susan B Anthony
George B McClellan