American Civil War and Reconstruction Era Flashcard

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Which act prohibited state banks from issuing their own notes and forced them to apply for federal charter?

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National Bank Act

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What was the name given to the anti-immigrant party formed from the wreckage of the Whig Party and some disaffected Northern democrats in 1854?

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Know-Nothings

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Which law admitted California as a free state, allowed the residents of the New Mexico and Utah territories to decide the slavery issue for themselves, ended the slave trade in the District of Columbia, and passed a new fugitive slave law to enforce the constitutional provision?

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Compromise of 1850

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What was the order by General William T. Sherman in January 1865 to set aside abandoned land along the southern Atlantic coast for forty-acre grants to freedmen called?

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Field Order 15

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Which Supreme Court ruling stated that slaves could not be U.S. citizens and that Congress had no jurisdiction over slavery in the territories?

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Dred Scott Decision

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What was the agency established by Congress in March 1865 to provide social, educational, and economic services, advice, and protection to former slaves and destitute whites called?

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Freedmen's Bureau

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What was the law passed in 1854 creating the Kansas and Nebraska Territories but leaving the question of slavery open to residents, thereby repealing the Missouri Compromise?

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Kansas-Nebraska Act

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What was the law passed by Congress in May 1862 providing homesteads with 160 acres of free land in exchange for improving the land within five years of the grant called?

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Homestead Act

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What was the name given to the period 1867-1870 when the Republican-dominated Congress controlled Reconstruction era policy?

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Congressional Reconstruction

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What was the law that raised tariffs to more than double their prewar rate called?

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Morrill Tariff Act