AP US History: Civil War & Reconstruction Flashcards

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