Key terms and vocab Flashcards
Abolished slavery
13th amendment
The 11 southern states that left the US
Confederacy
States could join the US with or without slavery
Kansas Nebraska Act
Residents of a territory would vote to decide whether to allow slavery
Popular sovereignty
Freed enslaved people in states rebelling against the U.S.
Emancipation Proclamation
Granted citizenship & equal protection of the law
14th Amendment
African American men were given the right to vote
15th Amendment
American belief in their “divine right” to westward expansion
Manifest Destiny
Violence over whether Kansas should allow slavery
Bleeding Kansas
African Americans can’t be citizens & Congress can’t abolish slavery
Scott vs Stanford
State admitted to the Union as a slave state in 1845 despite Mexico’s claim to the land
Texas
Terrorist organization devoted to white supremacy
KKK
Led a failed raid on Harpers Ferry to start a slave revolt
John Brown
To break away from a country
Secede
Period after the Civil War when Congress tried to rebuild the country & grant rights to freed people
Reconstruction
Ruled that segregation does not violate the Constitution
Plessy v. Ferguson
Government agency tasked with overseeing Reconstruction and helping African Americans transition to freedom
Freedmen’s Bureau
Slave states that remained in the Union/USA
Border state
Which president of the United States called for war with Mexico in 1848?
President James K. Polk
Who were the candidates in the election of 1860? What did each believe about slavery?
Abraham Lincoln (opposed slavery), John Breckenridge(thought it was a constitutional issue, not moral), John Bell(opposed expansion of slavery), Stephen Douglas(pro slavery).
Why did Reconstruction end in 1877?
The compromise of 1877 ended reconstruction.
