Civil War/Reconstruction Vocab.

the people have the power to make decisions in their government by voting ex: Kansas-Nebraska Act, California - Free State

• Popular Sovereignty

• States Rights

• Secession

Differences in opinion on who holds more power (states vs federal government) 10th Amendment, Federalism. Ex: declaring secession, Nullification Crisis, Kansas-Nebraska Act

• States Rights

• Popular Sovereignty

• 13th Amendment

• Federal Rights

to withdraw (leave) from a membership in a group or an organization

• Secede

• Emancipate

• 13th Amendment

• Compromise 1820

Made by President Lincoln that freed slaves in Confederate states only to not lose support of border states. Military strategy to weaken the South. Expanded Union war goal to include ending slavery.

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• Emancipation Proclamation 1863

an 1865 amendment to the United States Constitution that abolishes and outlaws the institution of slavery throughout the nation: FREE!!

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 13th Amendment

A constitutional amendment giving full rights of citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States.
It also allowed the federal government to restrict the actions of state governments in the south from limiting Freedmen's rights: CITIZENS!!

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude: VOTE!!

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

negative term for a northern Republican who moved to the South after the Civil War to help "rebuild". Usually only to profit off of Southern misery.

• Confederate

• Rebel

• Carpetbagger

Loyal to part of the country rather than the whole country

• Sectionalism

• Secede

• Emancipate

• Abolitionist

The period of rebuilding the country after the Civil War

• Emancipate

• Reconstruction

• Secede

• Abolitionist