Topic 1-2 Civil War & Reconstruction

Northern Civil War strategy to starve the South by blockading seaports and controlling the Mississippi River.

• Anaconda Plan

• Python Strategy

• Smash and Grab

• Sectional Issues

Federal law granting citizenship to former slaves; passed over Johnson's veto.

• 15th Amendment

• Black Codes

• Civil Rights Act of 1866

• Freedmen's Bureau

System used on southern farms after the Civil War, similar to slavery.

• Black Codes

• Slash and Burn

• Crop Rotation

• Sharecropping

Political party that favored harsh punishment of Southern states after civil war and supported voting rights for freedmen.

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Radical Republicans

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Southern Democrats

Government agency founded during Reconstruction to help former slaves adjust to freedom.

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Jim Crow Laws

• Westward Expansion

• Radical Republicans

Disagreements between North and South, especially over the expansion of slavery into new territories.

• The Great Disagreement

• Westward Expansion

• Sectional Issues

• Sharecropping

Movement of settlers into newly acquired territories in the American West. Increased sectional tensions.

• Jim Crow Laws

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Westward Expansion

• The Great Migration

State laws in the South that legalized segregation.

• Jim Crow Laws

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Black Codes

• Dred Scott Decision

Period when racism was at its worst after the Civil War, between the end of Reconstruction to the early 20th century.

• Radical Reconstruction

• Westward Expansion

• Nadir of Race Relations

• Civil Rights Act of 1866

Abolished Slavery

• 14th Amendment

• Civil Rights Act of 1866

• 15th Amendment

• 13th Amendment