Civil War and Reconstruction Flashcards
abolitionist
people against slavery and wanted it outlawed everywhere.
underground railroad
a network of people who helped slaves escape the Northern U.S. or Canada
Fredrick Douglass
one of the best known abolitionists
Missouri compromise (1820)
No slavery above Missouri’s boarder besides Missouri
Compromise of 1850
- Southwest states can choose to be free 2. Texas state debt is gone 3. California becomes a free state 4. slave trade is gone 5. slaves need documents to be free
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Creates the territories of Kansas and Nebraska so a transcontinental railroad can be built
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Scott could not legally sue since he was black/ It affirmed the most extreme southern position/ first time court deemed federal legislation unconstitutional
Secession
South Carolina and other states claiming to be a separate and independent state (11 seceded in total)
Anaconda Plan
Set up a naval blockade of southern ports to control the Mississippi river/ push from Mississippi river to the Pacific coast
Emancipation Proclamation
Declared that “all persons held as slave are, and henceforward shall be free.”
radical republican
they believed they should control reconstruction instead of the president
Reconstruction
Lincoln would re-admit states for the reconstruction if they swore an oath to support the constitution
Abraham Lincoln
A well known national figure/ wanted to preserve the Union
Jefferson Davis
the first and only president of the Confederate states of america
George B McClellan
A career Army officer and later a politician
George G Meade
A U.S. army general and civil engineer
Ulysses S. Grant
led the union armies to victory over the confederacy in the American Civil war
William T. Sherman
American civil war general and a major architect of modern warfare
Robert E. Lee
Ultimately commanded all the confederate armies
KKK
The Ku Klux Klan was the name of white supremacists hate groups and terrorists
John Wilkes Booth
Abraham Lincolns assassin
Tenure of office act
A law that made it so the president would have to get approval from the senate to remove office holders
Compromise of 1877
An unwritten political deal in the U.S. to settle the intense dispute over the 1876 presidential election
the 13th amendment
Ended slavery
The 14th amendment
citizenship
the 15th amendment
voting rights
