Vocab
compromise
Giving up one something to make an agreement
Sectionalism
the idea that a region of a country has unique characteristics and values, and that loyalty to that region is more important than loyalty to the country as a whole
Emancipation Proclamation
a military decree issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, that declared all enslaved people in rebellious states to be free
Johnson’s Reconstruction Plan
Similar to Lincoln’s Plan but was more nice and forgave many Confederate military peoples and rich southerners
Freedmen’s Bureau
An organization created by the U.S. government after the Civil War to help ex-slaves by giving them food, education, and health care, and by helping them find jobs.
Status Quo
The current balance of things
Bloody Kansas
a period of violent clashes between the two groups and causes hundreds of casualties.
Ratify
To approve a law or agreement
Radical Republicans Reconstruction Plan
A plan made by a group in Congress who wanted to be more strict on the Southern states after the Civil War. They demanded equal rights for African Americans and strict conditions for the South to rejoin the Union
Plessy vs Ferguson
Segregation became legal under Plessy vs Ferguson
Missouri Compromise
to keep peace between the North and the South by keeping the balance of power between free and slave states
Popular vote or Popular Sovereignty
Allowing people to choose decisions for themselves through voting.
Amnesty
A decision by the government to forgive people who did something wrong
13th Amendment
No more slavery
Jim Crow Laws
After the end of Reconstruction, Southern governments began to write new laws that took away many of the rights African Americans had under Reconstruction
Compromise of 1850
After the Mexican-American War new territories wanted to be added to the union like California, which threatened to break the status quo on the issue of slavery in America.
Dred Scott vs Sandford
a landmark 1857 Supreme Court case that ruled that enslaved people and their descendants were not citizens of the United States
Integration
Putting all pieces together as a whole
14th Amendment
Anyone born in the us is a us citizen
Grandfather Clause
a clause in the constitutions of some Southern states, exempting from voting restrictions the descendants of men who voted before the Civil War
Kansas Nebraska Acts
repealed the Missouri Compromise
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass was known for writing against slavery
Lincoln’s 10% Plan
A plan Abraham Lincoln made during the Civil War that said Southern states can rejoin the United States if 10% of their voters said they were loyal to the Union and agreed to end slavery
15th Amendment
No one can take the right to vote from a person no matter what
Literacy Test
assesses a person's literacy skills: their ability to read and write