Civil War and Reconstruction (1860-1877)

Civil War and Reconstruction (1860-1877)

Sectionalism

• Tension between the North and South

• The North relied on factories and manufacturing

• The South relied on plantations and farms

Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Nebraska Territory was divided into 2 sections

• Slavery was to be decided by popular sovereignty

• Anti-slavery and pro-slavery groups rushed into the territories to vote (known as Bleeding Kansas)

Compromise of 1850

Preserved the balance of free and slave states and said that Congress could not regulate slavery in territories.

California became a free state, and popular sovereignty decided in states gained from Mexican Session.

Fugitive Slave Act

• Helped slave owners recover their runaway slaves from the North

• Part of Compromise of 1850

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Dred Scott Decision

• Slavery was made legal in all territories.

• African Americans were denied citizenship rights, even if they were free.

Multiple Choice

The North relied on ___ to make money.

• Farming

• Slavery

• Factories

• Gold mining

Multiple Choice

The South relied on ___ to make money.

• Plantations and farming

• Lumbar

• Factories

• Fishing

Multiple Choice

Which Supreme Court decision denied African Americans citizenship rights?

• Marybur v Madison

• Dred Scott Decision

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• McCulloch v Maryland

Civil War (1861-1865)

• Fighting between the North and South over the issue of slavery.

• North wins and slaves are granted freedom, citizenship, and the right to vote.

Secession

• Withdrawal of Southern states from the Union

• The south based their arguments on the idea of state's rights

• They argue that they had voluntarily joined the union and therefore had the right to leave

• South Carolina is the first state to secede and later forms the Confederate States of America with Jefferson Davis as their President

Abraham Lincoln

President of the US during the Civil War

Jefferson Davis

President of the Confederate States of America

Ulysses S. Grant

Commanding Union General. Accepted Lee's surrender at the Appomattox court house in 1865

Robert E. Lee

• Confederate General

• Surrendered at Appomattox

Stonewall Jackson

• Commander in the Confederate army

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Emancipation

• Emancipation Proclamation freed all of the slaves in the Southern Sates

• Issues by President Lincoln

Multiple Choice

Who was the first state to secede from the Union?

• Virginia

• New York

• South Carolina

• Mississippi

Multiple Select

Who were Presidents during the Civil War?

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Abraham Lincoln

• Stonewall Jackson

• Jefferson Davis

Multiple Choice

The Emancipation Proclamation freed all of the slaves in the entire United States.

• True

• False

Battles of the Civil War

• Fort Sumter- first shots of the war

• Battle of Antietam- Bloodiest battle of the war

• Siege of Vicksburg- Union gains control of the Mississippi River

• Battle of Gettysburg- The only time the South tried to invade the North but lost

Appomattox Courthouse

• Lee surrenders to Grant

• The Civil War is over

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Lincoln Assassinated

• Lincoln was shot an d killed in Ford's Theater by John Wilkes Booth 5 days after Lee's surrender

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Reconstruction Amendments to the Constitution

• 13th Amendment - Freed slaves in all states

• 14th Amendment - Made all former slaves American citizens

• 15th Amendment - Allowed all former slaves the right to vote

Reconstruction 1865-1877

• The process of re-admitting Southern States into the Union

• Radical Republicans wanted to use federal government to impose a new order on the South

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Key Vocabulary

• Black Codes - laws passed in the South after the Civil War aimed at controlling freedmen

• Radical Republicans - - Republicans who favored extreme approach to Reconstruction

• Scalawags - Southerners who supported Republican Reconstruction of the South

• Carpetbaggers - Northern whites who moved South after the war

Key Vocabulary

• Ku Klux Klan - A violent opposition group to the Radical Republican policies

• Poll Taxes - A tax a person paid in order to vote

• Literacy Tests - Method used to prevent African Americans from voting

• Grandfather Clause - If your grandfather could not vote, then you could not vote

• Segregation - Separation or isolation of a race, class, or group

Multiple Choice

Which amendment allowed former slaves the right to vote?

• 12th

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

Multiple Choice

Which amendment freed slaves in all states?

• 12th

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

Multiple Choice

Which amendment made all former slaves American citizens?

• 12th

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

Multiple Select

Which of the following were used to prevent African Americans from voting?

• Poll Taxes

• Martial Law

• Literacy Tests

• Grandfather Clauses