Unit 3 Key Terms

Political party formed to oppose the expansion of slavery.

• Abolitionist Party

• Free Soil Party

• Pro-Slave Party

• Republican Party

Early Civil Rights supporter. Founding member of the NAACP. Argued for African Americans to demand full civil, political, and social rights immediately.

• Nat Turner

• Ida B. Wells

• Booker T. Washington

• W.E.B. DuBois

Early Civil Rights supporter. Argued African Americans should seek economic rights and accept their second class citizenship. Argued for vocational education instead of college education.

• W.E.B. DuBois

• Booker T. Washington

• Ida B. Wells

• Nat Turner

Early Civil Rights supporter. Launched a crusade against lynching. Co-founder of the NAACP.

• W.E.B. DuBois

• Booker T. Washington

• Ida B. Wells

• Nat Turner

Supreme Court decision that upheld the legality of segregation as long as it is "separate but equal."

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Dred Scott v. Sanford

• Nat Turner v. Slave Masters

Term given to African Americans that left the South in the years after Reconstruction ended to go West and form their own farms and independent communities.

• Indentured Servants

• Sharecroppers

• Exodusters

• Great Migrants

Southerners who, during Reconstruction, supported the Republican Party and/or Reconstruction policies.

• Democrats

• Republicans

• Carpetbaggers

• Scalawags

Northerners that moved South as Reconstruction began to exploit the South for personal gain.

• Republicans

• Scalawags

• Carpetbaggers

• Democrats

Final battle where the South surrendered to the North and the Civil War is officially over.

• Appomattox Courthouse

• Gettysburg

• Bull Run

• VIcksburg

Campaign used by General Sherman in the Civil War to destroy everything of military value in the South and break their will to continue fighting.

• March to Richmond

• March to Atlanta

• March to the Sea

• March to Victory