Civil War - Vocab SS.912.A.2.1

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What is the term for the movement of African-Americans out of the South to the North and the West?

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African-American Migration

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What was Winfield Scott's strategy of blockading Confederate ports to force a surrender called?

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Anaconda Plan

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What were the Southern laws that severely limited the rights of African Americans after the Civil War called?

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Black Codes

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What term was used by Southern Democrats to describe Northern Republicans who moved to the South to get rich and improve their political careers in areas they had no connection to?

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carpetbaggers

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What was the Congressional legislation that allowed California to become a Free State in return for strengthening and federal enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act called?

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Compromise of 1850

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What law sought to "Americanize" Native Americans by dividing reservation lands into 160 acre lots that would be farmed, and led to government selling off reservation lands?

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Dawes Act (1887)

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What is it called when a man who is in debt is forced to work for someone until it is paid off?

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debt peonage

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What was the 1857 Supreme Court Decision that stated slaves were not citizens and had no right to sue in federal court, and that Congress had no right to determine an individual state's slave status, essentially ruling the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional?

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Dred Scott Decision

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What was the 1863 proclamation issued by President Lincoln that freed all slaves in states that were in rebellion, effectively turning the Civil War from a war of Federal vs. State Authority to a war of morality?

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Emancipation Proclamation

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What term refers to African Americans who migrated from the South to the West after the Civil War?

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Exodusters