Civil War & Reconstruction Flashcards
Which amendment ended slavery in the U.S.?
13th Amendment
What do the following have in common?
- Uncle Tom’s Cabin
- Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass
- John Brown, Harper’s Ferry
Abolitionist movement
Which Amendment gave citizenship rights to African American males?
14th Amendment
Which amendment guaranteed the vote for African American males?
15th Amendment
Once popular sovereignty was accepted with the Compromise of 1850, who would decide if slavery would be accepted in a western state?
The people who lived there
What was a Northerner who moved to the South after the Civil War to help with Reconstruction called?
Carpetbagger
Which 1820 compromise is being described:
- Missouri as a slave state, Maine as a free state
- No slavery North/West of 36 30
Missouri Compromise
What did the Dred Scott decision say about slaves?
They were property, not citizens
What happened after Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860?
South Carolina seceded from the union
Why did Southerners fear the election of Abraham Lincoln?
They thought he and the Republicans would end slavery in the U.S.
What was the Anaconda Plan?
General Scott’s plan to squeeze the South with a naval blockade, blocking their ports and taking control of the Mississippi River
What advantage did the North believe it had over the South?
It was industrialized and had a diverse economy
Where were slaves freed with the Emancipation Proclamation,
In the rebelling states but not in the Border States, which were allied with the North.
Which level of government had the most power after the Civil War?
Laws of the U.S. government have supremacy over state laws
During Reconstruction, who wanted freedman to have full citizenship rights and punish former Confederate leaders?
Congress, under the leadership of Radical Republicans
Who believed that unifying the nation was the most important goal of Reconstruction?
President Lincoln and President Johnson
Which plan forced states to ratify the 14th Amendment, created five military districts in the South to oversee Reconstruction, and prohibited Confederate leaders from holding political (government) office?
Congressional Reconstruction
Which group wanted African Americans to have full citizenship rights?
Radical Republicans
What laws limited the right of African Americans during and after Reconstruction?
Black Codes (during); Jim Crow (after)
What is a Southerner who supported Congressional Reconstruction called?
Scalawag
What positive effects remained after Reconstruction?
Public schools, railroads, diversification of agriculture and the economy
How did Southerners perceive, or see, carpetbaggers?
As people trying to get rich/take advantage of their misfortune
What did the Supreme Court legalize with Plessy v. Ferguson?
Segregation
What was the new farming arrangement where freedmen and poor whites used a landowners land, tools, shelter, and mule in exchange for half of their crop known as?
Sharecropping
What is it called when a sharecropper cannot leave the landowners farm because he owes money?
Debt peonage
What measures limited African Americans right to vote after Reconstruction ended?
Poll taxes and literacy tests
What was the goal of the Ku Klux Klan, the Knights of the White Camellia, the Red Shirts, and the Pale Faces?
To terrorize African Americans who demanded their rights as well as whites who helped them
What is the violence between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers after the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) known as?
Bleeding Kansas
