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| She was the daughter of a Northern abolitionist preacher who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin. Her book showed the worst and most negative side of slavery and made Northernors feel guilty and responsible for slavery. | ||
| He wrote and published the Northern Abolitonist paper the Liberator. He was also one of the founders of the American Anti-Salvery Society. He was a radical reformer and his actions, especially the distibution of the Liberator, helped spark the American Abolitionist movement. | ||
| She was born a slave but escaped in 1826 with her infan daughter. She was a strong supporter of women rights as well as an abolitonist. She also recruited free blacks to fight in the Union Army and after emancipation, Truth fought for land rights for newly freed African Americans. | ||
| He was a presbyterian minister as well as an abolitonist. He was greatly attacked in his home state of Ohio for his views. Lovejoy moved to Illinois to escape the persecution but was soon after shot and killed by an angry mob inflamed about his views against slavery. Lovejoy was seen as a matyr for the abolitionist cause. | ||
| Douglass was an escaped slave who used his experiences in slavery and his oratorical skills to sway many to the abolitionist cause. He is responsible for mch of the support that the abolitionists gained leading up to the civil war. | ||
| Tyler served as Vice President to William Henry Harrison for about a month when Harrison died ad Tyler assumed the Presidency. As a politician he was accepted by neither the Whigs nor the Democrats. His one major accomplishment was the annexation of Texas in 1845. | ||
| He was the second and last Whig candidate to win the presidency. He made no formal statement about slavery in his campaign platform, but it was well known that he owned slaves on his plantation in Louisiana. When the Compromise of 1850 was in its early stages trying to keep the Union together, Taylor seemed very firm about vetoing any bills of compromise. The Compromise of 1850 was only passed after Taylor died in office and Millard Filmore replaced him. | ||
| Scott was a war hero and served on active duty in the US Army longer than any other one person. He ran as a Whig candidate in 1852 but was unsuccessful. His later Civil War battle plan, called the Anaconda Plan led to the Union defeat of the Confederates. | ||
| Polk was beat Tyler in the presidential election of 1844. After he won, Polk set out his four point plan for his term. He wanted to lower the tariff, establish an independent treasury and acquire both CAlifornia and Oregon. He achieved all these plans, but couldn't get California without fighting the Mexican-American war. Polk left the country with a lot territory but also alot more sectional tension. | ||
| He was first an explorer and soon settled in the California territory. he was one of the first two senators when California became a state. During the Civil War, when the Union gained control of Missouri, Fremont ordered that all slaves in that states be emancipated. Lincoln asked Fremont to repeal this order but he refused so Lincoln relieved him of his post as major general. | ||
| Seward was a freshman senator during the debates preceding the Compromise of 1850. He was the lead and spokesperson of the radical young northern senators and Seward claimed that the Congress had to submit to the "higher law" of God when dealing with matters of slavery. Seward was wholeheartedly abolitionist, and his complete refusal to compromise may have influenced President Taylor's reluctance to compromise as well. | ||
| When Henry Clay was very old and mostly retire from politics, Douglas stepped forward to become the next "Great COmpromiser." Douglas was not nearly as skilled as Clay and his compromise in the Kansas-Nebraska act mostly benefited his own interests and brought the impending civil war closer. Douglas also ran against Abraham Lincoln for the Illinois senate. | ||
| He was elected as a Democratic candidate in the election of 1852. He was a Northerner with Southern leanings and his passing of both the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Ostend Manifesto greatly diminished his popularity as a president. He is considered one of the worst president in US history and his actions definitely heightened the sectional struggle. | ||
| Henry Clay was the "great compromiser" who should have been president but made too many enemies during his long political career. His last great compromise was the compromise of 1850 which put off the Civil War for about 10 years. | ||
| Calhoun also played a great role in bringing about the Compromise of 1850. He was too weak to speak himself but an aid delivered his speech for him in the senate. He supported Clay's suggestions for compromise, but thought they were not nearly strong enough and would eventually fall apart. | ||
| He was a radical republican senator and an abolitionist. He was also a master in foreign policy. In 1856, Sumner was almost killed on the Senate floor by Southern senator Preston Brooks. This beating heightened the sectial tension and brought the Union closer to a split. | ||
| John Brown was an extremist for the abolitionist cause. He fought in Bloody Kansas and also organized a raid at a US military armament at Harper's Ferry, WV. This raid was meant to start a slave rebellion throughout the south, but it failed miserably. Brown was tried for treason and convicted. He was hanged and became a martyr and unifying force for the abolitionist cause. | ||
| Lincoln started out as a successful Illinois lawyer and later became a senator. In his early career he suggested the Spot Resolution in Congress to prevent the Mexican-American war, but this just set back his career. He was elected president in 1860. When it came to the civil war, Lincoln's main focus was preserving the Union. He used slavery as a tool to maintain the Union. In the end, Abraham Lincoln saved the Union, freed the slaves and won the Civil War. | ||
| Taney served as the chief justice of the Supreme court and deliberated on the Dred Scott Decision. In his decision, Taney decided that slaves were property and that Congress couldn't control or take away property. This essentially throughout the Missouri Compromise. Taney stated that slavery could exist anywhere because Congress had no right to control it. | ||
| Davis served as the president of the Confederacy. As president he was unable to create successful war plans that could beat the bigger and stronger Union or to achieve recognition as an independent nation from any foreign power. Jefferson's failures contributed to the Confederacy's loss and the Union's win. | ||
| He was elected president in 1856. His presidnecy was mostly unsuccessful and during it the Democratic party split into two sectional groups. Buchanan was unable to calm any of the sectional tension and at the end of his presidency, the states were even closer to a civil war. | ||
| Clara Barton served as a battlefield nurse on the Union side and provided healthcare and supplies to many troops. She established the American Red Cross and served as its first president. During the war, she was given official government positions. Her recognition and success strengthened the Women's Rights cause. | ||
| Stanton served as Secretary of War under Lincoln during the Civil WAr. His effective management helped win the war and preserve the Union. | ||
| He was a general in the Union army and mostly fought in the Western Theater. He captured Richmond and Lee surrendered to him in 1865. Grant remained in the South to implement Reconstruction and gained many rights for the newly freed slaves. He was later elected President. His two terms were marked by economic disaster.Grant helped win the Civil War, but he wasn't able to save the economy during his two terms. | ||
| He was a congressman from Ohio. He was elected a Democrat and he firmly supported states' rights. Vallandigham accepted the South's claims for succession, but he did not feel the central government was constituionally allowed to attack the Confederacy and he was against the war. His divided views mirrored the views of many in his home state of Ohio and around the country. | ||
| He served as a Tennessee state senator for several terms and at the beginning of the Civil War, Johnson was the only Southern Senator who didn't resign from congress. Johnson was Lincoln's VP and assumed the presidency upon Lincoln's death. Johnson managed construction but was sympathetic to the South. His bias prevented laws that would establish rights for new Freedmen. | ||
| McClellan was hired and fired several times during the war as the general of the Union Army. He lost at the battle of Bull Run and suffered enormous casualties at the battle of Antietam because he was too cautious. His battle action gave the South the fighting advantage for a long time and he lost many Union lives. | ||
| Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln right after the end of the Civil War. His actions show the lack of contentment with the Union victory and the remaining sectional tension. | ||
| Lee served as a Southern general throughout the war. He was a very good strategist and was good at fighting a defensive war, but he got too cocky and when he attacked at Gettysburg the war changed tide in favor of the Union. Lee's actions are partly the cause of the Confederacy's loss. | ||
| Meade was a Union general most notably fighting at the Battle of Gettysburg. He was given command of the Army at the Potomac days before Gettysburg. He effectively organized his troops and applied his battle plans at Gettysburg and his success there turned the tide for the Union and help them win. | ||
| Also known as Stonewall Jackson. He was a very successful Confederate general. He was shot with friendly fire at the Battle of Chancellorsville and died a week later from complications. His death served as a symbol of Southern heroism and inspired his fellow soldiers. | ||
| He was the main founder of the Free Soil Party. He also served as a congressman and as the secretary of the treasury. His work with the Free Soil Party strengthened the Abolitionist cause. | ||
| Howard served as a Union general in the Civil War. After the war, he was in charge of organizing the Freedmen's work force in the south. He made many attempts to establish fair rights to these newly free people. This showed the intention of many to protect the Freedmen. | ||
| In his early political career, Stephens was a Whigs representative from Georgia. He switched between the Whigs and Democrats at almost every election. At the brink of the Civil War, Stephens was anti-succession. When the South did succeed, however, Stephens was appointed Vice President. He publicly criticized Davis's administration and he showed the inner weakness of the hastily created Confederate government. | ||
| Stevens, along with Sumner were the primary leaders of the radical republicans. Stevens was wholely against the war. He worked hard during reconstruction to secure basic rights for the Freedmen. | ||
| the south tryed to pass off slavery as "positive" for the slave owners and the slaves. It really says that the slaves lives could be worse if they were "wage slaves" in the North. It's shows the South desperation for justification of slavery as well as there dependence on it. | ||
| This was the cotton industry in the South. Southern cotton benefited Britain greatly because the majority of the cotton processed in British mills came from the American South. Southerners believed if it came to a war between the North and South, the cotton output would stop and Britain would be out of resources. Then the British would come to the Southerner's aid. | ||
| pg386: a northern abolitionist paper published by William Lloyd that effectively started the abolitionist movement andbrought many to the abolitionist cause. | ||
| law passed in congress that prohibited the discussion of slavery among the House or the Senate. This prevented immediate conflict, but just made the end solution to slavery more difficult and farther away. | ||
| A society founded by William Garrison and Arthur Tappan. One of its main leaders was Frederick Douglass. This society published information about slavery and abolitionism and if got many people to support the abolitionist movement. | ||
| The area in the Deep South with the highest concentration of slaves. Slavery was imperative to the economy of this area and the slave owners and other whites from around there fought very hard in the Civil War to maintain their way of life. | ||
| put the south on edge becuase in many southern states slaves easily outnumbered free. The Southerners now were very fearful of slave rebellions even thought very few actually happened. This showed the backwards nature of slavery where the vast majority could easily overthrow the tiny minority of the people who control and enslaved them. | ||
| American slaves escaped and captured a ship, the Amistad, and sailed it toward Cuba, with their final destination Africa. They were caught and sent to New York. They were tried in court and were finally allowed to return to Africa. This shows that some people treated slaves like human beings and gave them a fair trial. It also served as inspiration for slaves because they knew that if they escaped they really could be granted their freedom. | ||
| an abolitionist society whose goal was to send slaves back to their home, Africa. This showed the American ignorance of the slave culture. The leaders of the society didn't realize that the slaves were mostly Americanized and not used to the lifestyle they met in Africa. | ||
| A line originally drawn at the southern border of Pennsylvania that separated the country into the free north and the slave south. This shows the earliest forms of sectional divide. | ||
| The American idea that God gave the Americans the entire continent of North America to reform and improve with their democracy. This idea led to the need for expansion and the Mexican American war as well as westward expansion. | ||
| This was a very religiously based abolitionist group that broke off from the American Anti-Slavery Society. The goal of the Liberty Party was to work within the political system to promote their cause. The establishment of the Liberty Party shows the growing number and groups of abolitionists. | ||
| A treaty between the US and Britain that solved border disputed in Maine, the Great Lakes and the Rocky Mountain area. | ||
| When reports came back that US soldiers had been killed by Mexicans on US Terriotory, young senator Abraham Lincoln demanded that the army division in that area show his the exact "spot" where each American was killed. This hurt the early career of Lincoln. | ||
| An unexpected presidential nomination. Polk was one of the first dark horse candidate. This shows the variance among America's political parties at the time. | ||
| Tension between British Canada and Maine rose over their disputed boundary. Both sides armed themselves, but didn't go to war. A peace was settled with the Webster-Ashburton Treaty. This shows the inner turmoil at the US borders and their willingness to fight for their territory. | ||
| A faction that was against slavery because it was immoral and it went against their religious beliefs. This shows the strength of religion among some politicians. | ||
| drafted by a Senator Wilmot, this proviso said that any area added from defeated Mexican territory could not have slavery. This law was never passed but many congressmen really believed in it and tried to prevent slavery in the Mexican territory because of it. | ||
| The US beat Mexico and gained the large territory called the Mexican Cession. The federal government paid Mexico 18 million for it even though they won.The addition of this new southern territory heightened the sectional struggle and brought the country closer to war. | ||
| This was a rallying cry in the Oregon Territory fir the US to gain all the land north to the 54 40 line. The US eventually settled for the 49 parallel and the rest went to Canada. The need for the most land (up to 54 40) is an example of Manifest Destiny. | ||
| This is the idea that the people within a territory or state can make decisions about issues affecting that states. During the Civil War era this mostly applied to deciding if a state was slave or free. On the outside, popular sovereignty looked like it favored both the North and South because it was simple democracy. But soon it seemed that all the new states were voting themselves free which angered the South. This led to conflict like Bleeding Kansas and brought the country closer to war. | ||
| A party created with the sole purpose of abolitionism. They wanted to abolish slavery not because it was morally wrong, but because without a lower class (like newly freed slaves) the Northern factor worker could never move up in the economy and that went against the American Dream. This shows the disorganized political world at the time. | ||
| The compromise of 1850 was meant to keep the Union together if only for the time being. The South got 10 million dollars to Texas as payment for lost territory and the Fugitive Slave Law as well as popular sovereignty in new territories. The North got California as a free state, got the slave trade abolished in DC and got popular sovereignty in the new territories. The compromise repressed the issues for a few years, but when they came back, they were even harder to solve. | ||
| The Fugitive Slave Law was sometimes called the Bloodhound bill because it made Northerners feel like slave catchers. The South thought this law would be helpful for returning slaves, but they didn't realize that none of the Northerners would actually follow it. The North passed laws that made the Fugitive Slave law hard to enforce and the abolitionist cause grew stronger as a result of the Law. | ||
| A document written by the US secretary of state that was approved by several foreign ministers. It said that the US would offer Spain money for Cuba, but if they refused to sell, the US was justified to take military action against Spain. The documents were leaked and when they were brought before the House, public sentiment was totally against this plan. This just angered the North because not it seemed clear that the South would resort to battle to maintain slavery. | ||
| This was first introduced by William Seward. It was the idea that congressmen had to think of the "higher law" or God's law when they were legislating. This meant that under the "higher law" slavery is clearly wrong. This idea shows the moral implications of the abolitionist movement. | ||
| Mostly planned by Stephen Douglas, the Kansas Nebraska Act created the states of Kansas and Nebraska and granted these areas popular sovereignty in concern to slavery. This went against the Missouri compromise which had forever closed Kansas and Nebraska to slavery. As a result a sectional conflict, Bleeding Kansas, erupted and the Republican Party was created in response to the Act. | ||
| These laws were passed by many Northern states to nullify the Fugitive Slave Law without actually nullifying. They just passed laws that made the enforcement of the law very difficult. This shows the Northern hate for the Fugitive Slave Law and the growing abolitionist spirit. | ||
| This was a series of secret routes from the South to the North most going into Canada. Only a few hundred slaves ever escaped through these means, but the idea that Northerners were directly disobeying the federal Fugitive Slave Law and essentially stealing the slave owners' "property" really angered the South. This brought the country closer to war. | ||
| James Gadsden, the ambassador to Mexico arranged the sale of a region that is now New Mexico and Arizona. The US wanted this territory so they could build a Transcontinental Railroad. Many southerners wanted it to run through the deep south to better connect their cotton fields with multiple trade outposts. The North too wanted a transcontinental railroad so the two sections competed for who would get the railroad. This deepened the sectional issue because of the railroad competition and the question if this new territory would be slave or free. | ||
| A book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that showed the worst and most negative side of slavery and made Northerners feel guilty and responsible for slavery and strengthened the abolitionist cause. | ||
| Kansas held a public poll to determine of it would be slave or free and many outsiders rushed in so they could tip the balance in the voting to favor their section. Northerners and Southerners moved in temporary just so they could vote in the election. The two sides started fighting. This showed the serious sectional struggle and how close the two sides were to the brink of war | ||
| Doctrine made by Stephen Douglas during the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Douglas claimed that communities could still apply popular sovereignty by passing laws did not protect but made the unwanted institution more difficult to enforce. Douglas went o to win the Illinois senate race, but he seriously angered the Southern Democrats and effectively split the Democrats into purely sectional parties. This made the country even closer to disunion. | ||
| John Brown organized a raid on a federal armament in Harper's Ferry, WV. This raid was meant to start a slave rebellion throughout the south, but it failed miserably. Brown was tried for treason and convicted. He was hanged and became a martyr and unifying force for the abolitionist cause. | ||
| A constitution proposed for Kansas. The voters could choose for Kansas as a slave state or Kansas as a non-slave state. But the "Kansas as a non-slave state" meant that no new slaves could come in. The one's already there would remain slaves. Free-Soilers boycotted the election and it caused serious voting irregularities. It was still sent to Washington by its supporters but was turned down by the House. This once again shows the more powerful minority trying to control the majority and not practicing any kind of fair democracy. | ||
| Dred Scott was a slave who was brought by his master to Illinois where they stayed for several years. Because Illinois was a free state Scott thought he should be free after living in a free state. The case was brought before the Supreme Court. Chief Justice Taney decided that slaves were property and that Congress couldn't control or take away property. This essentially throughout the Missouri Compromise. Taney stated that slavery could exist anywhere because Congress had no right to control it. | ||
| A compromise similar to the Missouri Compromise. It said slavery is allowed South of 36 30' but it is prohibited North of 36 30' and that all new states would get to decide on slave or free. It was shot down by both the House and Senate because it allowed the expansion of slavery which most were not in favor of. | ||
| John Brown reacted to violence against abolitionists in Kansas during Bleeding Kansas. He responded with an attack on pro-slavery settlers in the town of Pottawatomie Creek. This shows the increasingly violent episodes between abolitionists and pro-slavery advocates. | ||
| Sumter was a Federal fort in South Carolina and when South Carolina succeeded, Union troops secretly moved into the fort without federal orders. Lincoln tried many times to send reinforcements and supplies to the fort but was blocked. He then sent several ships to a nearby harbor to deliver supplies but the ships were attacked by confederates. The Civil war began with the battle at Fort Sumter which the Confederates won. This started the part of the war were the South had the advantage. The Confederates took the fort. | ||
| Lincoln hired McClellan as a general and made a request of the Union to volunteer for a 90 day term. McClellan trained his army really well and near the end of the 90 days, Lincoln urged McClellan to go attack the South. McClellan was over cautious and when he reached Richmond he was fooled into thinking that the Confederate soldiers outnumbered the Union soldiers. This made McClellan scared to attack but Lincoln made him. McClellan attacks but only half-heartedly and when Confederate reinforcements show up the Union soldiers retreat. After this battle, Lincoln removes McClellan from his post. | ||
| The state of Alabama provided troops, weapons and supplies to the Confederate Army. Mobile Bay was blockaded by the Union and the Battle of Mobile Bay followed where the Union took the city of Mobile. Part of Northern Alabama was also occupied by the Union temporarily. | ||
| This act established a national system of bank charter and made the United States National Banking System. This act developed a stable national currency. this stable currency helped the Union cause because it maintained a stable Northern Economy throughout the war. | ||
| Two ships secretly constructed in England for the use of the Confederacy. These ships posed a serious threat to the US Navy when put into action. This showed England's support of the Confederate cause because they were trying to protect their American cotton interests. | ||
| Congress passed a law in 1863 which allowed the use of a draft to recruit Union soldiers. In New York City, mostly working class men rose up against them because the law favored the rich who could pay $300 to get out of serving. This showed the still prevalent gap between rich and poor especially in the Industrial cities of the North. | ||
| A US Navy ship intercepted the British boat RMS Trent which had on board two confederate diplomats who were sailing to France and Britain to plead their case. The two diplomats were taken prisoner by the US Navy ship. The US was outraged at the British involvement and almost went to war with them. The crisis was solved when the Navy released the two diplomats. The British however, still seemed to favor the Confederacy. | ||
| The most important naval battle in the Civil War. The Confederates tried to break through the Union blockade on Virginia in March 1862. Over two days of fighting, the Union and Confederacy fought with ironclad warships. This changed naval warfare because now all the world powers made ironclad ships instead of wooden ships. The battle ended in a draw. | ||
| This was the single most bloody day in US History. Lincoln brought back McClellan as a general. Lee attacks Antietam in Maryland. McClellan finds Lee's battle plans, but even then he still too careful. There are massive causalities on both sides and it ends in a stalemate. As Lee's army is retreating, McClellan had the perfect opportunity to overtake them, but is again too careful. Both armies were severely depleted so they needed to go get more troops. | ||
| a radical anti-war wing of the Democratic Party. They wanted the immediate end of the war. They were believed to have hurt the war effort by fighting the draft and encouraging desertion. When the Union victory seemed assured, the movement fell apart. | ||
| Abraham Lincoln published a statement that would free all the slaves on January 1 of 1861 in all the areas that were in rebellion. This is an example of Lincoln using slavery as a tool for maintaining the Union. Because of this proclamation, if states came back into the Union, they could keep their slaves. Unfortunately, all the areas this applied to didn't recognize Lincoln's authority so they didn't listen to the law. It did however give Lincoln the reputation of the great emancipator. | ||
| This amendment to the Constitution forever abolished slavery. Lincoln found an amendment necessary in case the Emancipation Proclamation was seen as a temporary war measure. This was the beginning of Reconstruction and the beginning of equality among citizens. | ||
| This was the party that Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson ran under in the 1864 election. They changed the name from Republicans because they wanted to attract anti-Republican Democrats. They won by a landslide. This shows that the North remained pretty united throughout the war. | ||
| They were a group very similar to the Copperheads. They were totally against the war and did hurt the war effort some. | ||
| This was a battle in Vicksburg in Mississippi. It took place in the Western Theater of the the war. Ulysses S Grant defeated the Confederate forces and got control of the Mississippi River. Grant captured an entire army and took about 30,000 POW. He also got a lot of weapons and supplies. This was a major blow to the Confederate cause. | ||
| This was a 3 day battle in Pennsylvania that turned the tide of the war in favor of the Union. On the first day, small Union and Confederate detachments start fighting in the town of Gettysburg. The next day their whole armies show up. Confederates gain advantage because of their strategic locations. On the third day, the Confederates get reinforcements and reach the northernmost point of their campaign. The Union outnumbers them and quickly push them back. From that point on, the Union won most of the battles. | ||
| A plan suggested by Winfield Scott. He made a plan that started with the blockade of southern ports and ended by splitting the South in two by attacking up the Mississippi River. His plan was successful and helped the Union win. | ||
| The British, in hopes to protect their economic interest in the South, provided the Confederacy with swift blockade runners which they used to evade the Union blockade. This helped the South hold out for awhile, but it didn't stop the Union forever. This still shows Britain's bias and secret aid to the Confederate cause. By the end of the was, the Union had captured about 1,000 blockade runners. | ||
| This is the idea that a country fights in a way that will totally destroy their enemy. It also means that the country will throw all its resources at the war. The Union and Confederacy fought total wars. Because of this total war, the South was completely ruined once the war ended. | ||
| They were Northerner Democrats with completely opposite view from the Peace Democrats/Copperheads. They had a much more aggressive policy toward the Confederacy and supported Lincoln's war tactics. Lincoln needed the support of the War Democrats so he changed his party name to the Union Party. This helped him get reelected. | ||
| Lee and Grant's armies met in battle at the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse. Lee thought there was only one division of Union cavalry to defeat, but when he broke through the Union lines, he saw two more detachments of Union cavalry and he knew he had to surrender. Lee formally surrendered and disbanded the Army of Northern Virginia. | ||
| A federal agency established to give aid to newly ex-slaves. They provided food, job opportunities, healthcare and worked to reunite families. The agency was just the beginning of helping the Freedmen adjust to life as a free citizen. | ||
| Lincoln's plan for reinstates rebel states. They could be brought back in when 10% of their registered voters pledged allegiance to the Union and accept emancipation. Once that happened they would have to establish a state government and the new state legislature had to write a constitution that abolished slavery. Then they could come back in as states. This made it relatively easy for rebel states to be readmitted. | ||
| Scalawags were white southerners who never supported the Confederacy and were glad to see a new South come out of the Civil War. Carpetbaggers were northerner opportunists looking to make money is the South. Both groups were mainly republicans and when ex-Confederates were temporarily banned from politics, these two groups took control of the legislature. This introduced more progressive ideas to the new state constitutions especially because of the carpetbaggers. | ||
| This bill was proposed by two Radical Republican Senators. It required that the majority of citizens in each rebel state must take the "Ironclad oath" which stated the had never supported the Confederacy. This was passed through Congress, but Lincoln vetoed it because he didn't want it to be that hard to be admitted as a state. | ||
| This act said that anyone born in the United States and not controlled by any foreign power had the same constitutional rights regardless of race. This did not however account for equal rights for women and it didn't apply to Native Americans either. The Act also wasn't very effective in application. |
