KC 3: Vocabulary- Civil War and Reconstruction

Abolition of slavery: Slavery is not allowed in any state or territory under the government of the U.S.A

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

Granted citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the United States," which included former slaves recently freed

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

Prohibited voting restrictions based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude (slavery)

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

Includes California admitted as a free state, the Fugitive Slave Act, Made popular sovereignty in most other states from Mexican- American War

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Bleeding Kansas

A republic formed in February of 1861 and composed of the eleven Southern states that seceded from the United States

• United States of America

• Confederate States of America

• Mexican Cession

• The Union

A Missouri slave sued for his freedom, claiming that his four year stay in the northern portion of the Louisiana Territory made him a free man. The U.S. Supreme Court decided he couldn't sue in federal court because he was property, not a citizen.

• John Brown

• Nat Turner

• Dred Scott Decision

• Harriet Tubman

Proclamation issued by Lincoln, freeing all slaves in areas still at war with the Union.

• 13th Amendment

• Underground Railroad

• Gettysburg Address

• Emancipation Proclamation

This law states that runaway slaves must be returned to their owner. This was the most controversial part of the Compromise of 1850.

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Dred Scott Decision

• Fugitive Slave Law

• Bleeding Kansas

A speech given by Abraham Lincoln after the Battle of Gettysburg, in which he praised the bravery of Union soldiers and renewed his commitment to winning the Civil War; supported the ideals of self-government and human rights.

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Fugitive Slave Law

• Gettysburg Address

• A House Divided

An abolitionist who attempted to lead a slave revolt by capturing Armories in southern territory and giving weapons to slaves, was hung in Harpers Ferry after capturing an Armory.

• Frederick Douglass

• Abraham Lincoln

• William Lloyd Garrison

• John Brown