Civil War Flashcards
What were the basic political and economic issues leading up to the Civil War?
South: Slavery vs North: no slavery
South: States’ Rights vs North: 1 Strong federal Goverment
South: low tariffs vs North: high tariffs
opening of public land in the West
right of the federal government to prohibit slavery in the Western territories
Which reform movements were there in the 19th century?
free public education women's rights higher wages better working conditions humane treatment for criminals + insane
What is Abolitionist Movement?
complete abolition of slavery
moral, religious an political reasons
Which famous white abolitionsts were there?
William Lloyd Garrison
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Theodore Parker
Who was a black abolitionst?
Frederick Douglass
Harriet Tubman
What did the Suffragette Movement right for?
women’s rights
What Efforts were made to save the Union?
Missouri Compromise
Second Fugitive Slave Law
Kansas-Nebraska-Act
What was the Missouri Compromise in 1850?
11 free states and 11 slavery states
Missouri applies for admission into the US
Solution to keep political balance:
Missouri added as slave state
Maine cut loose from Massachusetts and admitted as free state
What is the Mason-Dixon Line?
splits country after slavery
north: free states
south- slavery states
What was the Second Fugitive Slave Law in 1850?
fugitive slaves have to return
punishing supporters of fugitive slaves
What was the Kansas-Nebraska-Act in 1854?
inhabitants of each state could decide to vote for or against slavery
bloody conflict bewtween Northern and Southern sympathizers
Who was elected president before the Civil War?
Abraham Licoln
new: Republican Party (liberal) to combat expansion of slavery
Why did the Civil War break out?
New President Abraham Lincoln decides not to let slavery spread into he new territories
Who were the Confederate States?
7 States: SCarolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Louisiana, Texas
leave US and form Confederate States of America
in favor of slavery
later 11 States (+ Virginia, NCarolina, tennessee, Arkansas)
Who fought in the Civil War?
Confederates (Greys/Rebels) vs Unionists (Yankees/Bluecoats)
Where and when did the Civil War break out?
April 12 1861
Confederates attack Fort Sumter (Charleston, SCarolina)
How many states remained loyal to US in the Civil War?
23 (24 with West Virginia)
What did the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 say?
Abraham Lincoln:
all slaves in Conferates are free
–> slaves should not become violent though
–> slaves couldn’t read, took months for them hearing this
Who and when won the Civil War?
April 14 1865
Confederate troops surrender
Lincoln is killed a few weeks later by southern fanatic
What were the outcomes of the Civil War?
Confederates are disbanded
Confederates occupied by Northern Troops
South faces utter poverty, hardly anybody left to rebuild
What introduced the 14th Amendment to the Constitution?
Citizenship for former slaves
What introduced the 15th Amendment to the Constitution?
Right to vote for black men
What were Freedman’s Bureaus?
helped former slaves to build life
What were Northern carpetbaggers?
Northerners come to South and build business/profit from southerners misery
What does “The Old South” mean?
Southerners feel nostalgic
wanted to go back to old south with plantations, slavery etc
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
white supremacist hat group
anti African Americans, immigration, catholic
What did the Amnesty Act in 1872 introduce?
Confederates are readmitted into US, but have to outlaw slavery
How where the blacks disenfranchised?
property test or literacy test mandatory
poll tax
What are the Jim Crow Laws?
complete apartheit/segregation of white and black
What characterizes the South until the 1980s?
poverty
backwardness
conservatism
lack of equality for blacks
