Flashcards Review

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Economic Factors in the North

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Industrial economy, reliance on wage labor, opposition to slavery, and support for federal tariffs.

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Economic Factors in the South

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Agricultural economy, reliance on slave labor, dominance of the cotton economy, and opposition to federal tariffs.

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Secession of South

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Withdrawal of Southern states from the Union in 1860-1861, leading to the formation of the Confederacy.

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Consequences of the Civil War

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Reconstruction, significant loss of life, economic changes, abolition of slavery, and extension of federal power.

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Nadir of Race Relations

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Period after Reconstruction marked by racial violence, Jim Crow laws, and systemic oppression of Black Americans.

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Literacy Test

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Examination imposed to restrict voting rights, often targeting Black voters and other minorities.

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Sharecropping

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Agricultural system where farmers work land owned by someone else in return for a share of the crops.

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Black Codes

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Laws passed in the South to restrict the freedoms of African Americans post-Civil War.

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Dawes Act of 1887

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Legislation aimed at assimilating Native Americans by allotting them individual plots of land.

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Indian Boarding Schools

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Institutions designed to assimilate Native American children into Euro-American culture.