Policies
Laws in the state and local government to restrict the freedom of African Americans during Reconstruction
This court case declared that African Americans were not citizens. They were property, thus protected by the 5th Amendment
Dred Scott decision
Worst single day battle of the Civil War
Battle of Antietam
Formed out of Confederate veterans who were violent towards blacks
KKK or Ku Klux Klan
Belief that it was America’s God given right to settle land all the way to the Pacific Ocean
Manifest Destiny
Relocation of five native tribes to areas west of the Mississippi
Indian Removal Act
A book written by Harriet Beecher Stow that presented an account of the life of slavery and the horrors of being owned by another. The book created empathy for slaves and inspired abolitionists
Uncle Tom's Cabin
This Union military strategy blocked the ports in the South
Anaconda Plan
Abolished slavery in the U.S.
13th Amendment
Land purchased from France for $15 million. It doubled the size of the U.S.
Louisiana Purchase
This compromise made slavery illegal in the Louisiana Territory north of the 36° 30’ parallel
Missouri Compromise
Clashes over the slavery issues where pro-slavery and anti-slavery supporters illegally voted in this territory led to a violent confrontation
Bleeding Kansas
Freed the slaves in the areas not under Union Control
Emancipation Proclamation
Suffrage (the right to vote) could not be denied based upon race
15th Amendment
Connected the East Coast to the West Coast, made the transportation of goods quicker and cheaper
Transcontinental Railroad
Identified slaves as citizens of the U.S. à anyone born in the U.S. are citizens and people can be naturalized.
14th Amendment
Admitted California as a free state, allow citizens in New Mexico and Utah territories to decide free or slave states and it included the Fugitive Slave Act
Compromise of 1850
The turning point during the Civil War. After this battle, the Confederates would never invade the Union territory again
Gettysburg
This organization helped former black slaves in the South after the war by providing food, housing, medical aid, school, etc.
Freedmen's Bureau
This recognized Texas as a U.S. state, gave large chunk of land that belonged to Mexico to U.S. for $15 million
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
The Americas are off limits to European colonization
Monroe Doctrine
This policy allowed this territory to use popular sovereignty to decide the slavery issue
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Led South Carolina and other southern states to secede from the Union
Election of 1860
This plan believed the Union had been broken and the South should be punished harshly, establish democracy in the South and ensure voting rights for all
Radical Republican's Plan
The government gave millions of acres away for free in the West to anyone that would claim land and live on it for five years
Homestead Act of 1862