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| 6212078954 | Freedman's Bureau | created 1865 -created to help freedman become independent -welfare program: food, clothing, medical car, education -best at education -Johnson vetoes | 0 | |
| 6212078955 | Presidential Reconstruction | Lincoln: 10% of southern voters from pre civil war vote to join union -congress disagreed, wanted 50% (Wade-Davis Bill) Johnson: 10% + pardons south planter aristocracy + S. states must repeal articles of secession, repudiate Confederate debt, and ratify 13th amendment | 1 | |
| 6212078957 | Black Codes | -S. wanted to regulate affairs of former slaves -labor codes unfair to blacks -tried to get blacks to stay where they were pre-civil to keep cheap labor pool -required everyone to have a job -sundown laws -apprenticeship laws -punished idleness | 2 | |
| 6212078959 | Congressional Radical Reconstruction | -S. congressmen were former Confederate leaders -S. had more representation (no 3/5 anymore) -Democrats can block progressive laws | 3 | |
| 6212078975 | Popular Sovereignty | Kansas-Nebraska act- agreement that people in the territories would vote on slavery, took issue to common people | 4 | |
| 6212078976 | Wilmot Proviso | 1846-proposed bill: no slavery in territories acquired in M/A war | 5 | |
| 6212078982 | compromise of 1850 | North: CA admitted as free state, no slave trading in district of Columbia South: TX $10M compensation for NM line, harder fugitive-slave laws | 6 | |
| 6212078989 | Kansas- Nebraska Act | 1854-A plan to split up the remaining Louisiana territory in to Kansas and Nebraska and throwing away the old Missouri Compromise of abolishing slavery north of the 36' 30' line -created by Stephen Douglas, lost North support | 7 | |
| 6212078993 | John Brown | radical abolitionist -killed 5 men, began Bleeding Kansas 1856 -attempted to lead a slave revolt by capturing Armories in southern territory and giving weapons to slaves, was hung in Harpers Ferry after capturing an Armory | 8 | |
| 6212078994 | Bleeding Kansas | (1856) a series of violent fights between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces in Kansas who had moved to Kansas to try to influence the decision of whether or not Kansas would a slave state or a free state. | 9 | |
| 6212078999 | Dred Scott | supreme court case: owner had lived with him in Ill. (free state), so Scott sued for his freedom -ruling: by Taney-Scott not a citizen, cannot sue; slaves were property so owners could go wherever, Missouri Compromise unconstitutional -*majority of court was southerns* | 10 | |
| 6212079002 | Abe Lincoln | -moderate Republican -ran against Douglas for Ill. senate seat *lost* -President during civil war -tried to be nice to South, killed by John Wilkes Booth | 11 | |
| 6212079007 | Robert E. Lee | Confederate general who had opposed secession but did not believe the Union should be held together by force | 12 | |
| 6212079008 | Ulysses Grant | Union general | 13 | |
| 6212079009 | Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederacy -states rights & secession made it hard for S. to stay together -no personality popularity | 14 | |
| 6212079016 | Battle of Antietam | Civil War battle in which the North suceedeed in halting Lee's Confederate forces in Maryland. Was the bloodiest battle of the war resulting in 25,000 casualties - September 17, 1862 | 15 | |
| 6212079017 | Emancipation Proclamation | -Lincoln 1863: declared all slaves in Confederate states free -did not free slaves in border states -civil war became moral crusade -gained support of working class in Britain | 16 | |
| 6212079018 | 13 amendment | abolished slavery 1865 | 17 | |
| 6212079019 | 14 amendment | all people are citizens and no state has the right to deprive any citizen of life, liberty, or property 1868 | 18 | |
| 6212079020 | 15 amendment | All US born citizen has voting rights. Banned racial restrictions on voting. United States may not prevent a citizen from voting based on that citizen's race, color. 1869 | 19 | |
| 6212079024 | fort sumter | Federal fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina; the confederate attack on the fort marked the start of the Civil War |  | 20 |
| 6212079031 | Scott v. Sanford | Speaking for a widely divided court, Chief Justice Taney ruled that Dred Scott was not a citizen and had no standing in court; Scott's residence in a free state and territory had not made him free since he returned to Missouri; Congress had no power to prohibit slavery in a territory (based on the 5th Amendment right of a person to be secure from seizure of property), thus voiding the Missouri Compromise of 1820. | 21 | |
| 6212079033 | Johnson's Impeachment | Johnson was impeached on because he fired the secretary of war stanton which was previously deemed illegal. Violation of Tenure Act. | 22 | |
| 6212079040 | Ku Klux Klan | est. 1866 in TN -terrorist group -attacked Af-Am leaders -state did not respond | 23 | |
| 6212197884 | sectionalism | Loyalty to a region | 24 | |
| 6212200434 | states rights | 25 | ||
| 6212216900 | Mexican american war | 1846 - 1848 - President Polk declared war on Mexico over the dispute of land in Texas. At the end, American ended up with 55% of Mexico's land. | 26 | |
| 6212219654 | habeas Corpus | the legal concept that an accused person cannot be jailed indefinitely without being charged with a crime | 27 | |
| 6212226519 | WIlliam T. Sherman | general whose march to sea caused destruction to the south, union general, led march to destroy all supplies and resoures, beginning of total warfare | 28 | |
| 6212229175 | Sronewall Jackson | claimed the nickname stonewall at the battle of bull run when his men coild not be moved | 29 | |
| 6212236027 | Gettysburg | (AL) 1863 (meade and lee), July 1-3, 1863, turning point in war, Union victory, most deadly battle | 30 | |
| 6212238742 | vicksburg | July 1863, Union Victory, Grant (USA) v Pemberton (CSA) | 31 | |
| 6212241553 | Battle of atlanta | Federal troops under Sherman cut off the railroads supplying Atlanta and burned the city | 32 | |
| 6212243411 | Gettysburg adress | Speech given by Abraham Lincoln which captured the spirit of liberty and morality ideally held by citizens of a democracy. That ideal was threatened by the Civil War. | 33 | |
| 6212247183 | lincolns second inaugural adress | Lincoln's second inaugural address definition. A speech given by Abraham Lincoln at his inauguration for a second term as president, a few weeks before the Union victory in the Civil War. | 34 | |
| 6214939021 | 1876 presidential election | What presidential election brings reconstruction to an end? | 35 | |
| 6214942805 | compromise of 1877 | Ended Reconstruction. Republicans promise 1) Remove military from South, 2) Appoint Democrat to cabinet (David Key postmaster general), 3) Federal money for railroad construction and levees on Mississippi river | 36 |
