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ex-confederates who supported reconstruction. They were also former slaves, whigs, and democrats, who liked republicanism.
  • Radical Republicans
  • Scalawags
  • Copperheads
  • Ku Klux Klan
Sherman's march from Atlanta to South Carolina, he and his army applied a total warfare, scorched earth policy that led over a million dollars in damage and crushed the south
  • Vicksburg
  • Antietam
  • Battle of Gettysburg
  • Sherman's March to the Sea
This settled the election of 1876, troops were removed from Louisiana and South Carolina and concessions for building a southern transcontinental railroad made
  • Compromise of 1777
  • Compromise of 1877
  • Compromise of 1872
  • Compromise of 1878
A series of post-Civil War Supreme Court cases containing the first judicial pronouncements on the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments. The Court held that these amendments had been adopted solely to protect the rights of freed blacks, and could not be extended to guarantee the civil rights of other citizens against deprivations of due process by state governments. These rulings were disapproved by later decisions.
  • The Slaughterhouse Cases
  • Civil Rights Act (1866)
  • Anaconda Plan
  • Emancipation Proclamation
These were a small group of people in 1865 who supported black suffrage and believed the South should be harshly punished and thought that Lincoln was sometimes too compassionate towards the South. They were led by Senator Charles Sumner and Congressman Thaddeus Stevens. They supported the abolition of slavery and a demanding reconstruction policy during the war and after.
  • Radical Republicans
  • Copperheads
  • Andrew Johnson
  • Scalawags
Democrats who opposed the civil war
  • Radical Republicans
  • Copperheads
  • Ku Klux Klan
  • Scalawags
was an American stage actor who, as part of a conspiracy plot, assassinated Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865.
  • John Wilkes Booth
  • Jefferson Davis
  • Andrew Johnson
  • Robert E. Lee
In 1867 this Act was passed which limited the President's power by prohibiting the President from removing civil officers w/o Senate consent. Goal was to bar Johnson from firing Secretary of War Stanton.
  • Tenure of Office Act (1877)
  • Tenure of Office Act (1967)
  • Tenure of Office Act (1867)
  • Tenure of Office Act (1767)
1) Citizenship for African Americans, 2) Repeal of 3/5 Compromise, 3) Denial of former confederate officials from holding national or state office, 4) Repudiate (reject) confederate debts
  • Free Soil Party
  • 14th Amendment
  • 13th Amendment
  • Millard Filmore
A Southerner form Tennessee, as V.P. when Lincoln was killed, he became president. He opposed radical Republicans who passed Reconstruction Acts over his veto. The first U.S. president to be impeached, he survived the Senate removal by only one vote. He was a very weak president.
  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Ulysses S. Grant
  • Andrew Johnson
  • Rutherford B. Hayes
A sequence of violent events involving abolitionists and pro-Slavery elements that took place in Kansas-Nebraska Territory. The dispute further strained the relations of the North and South, making civil war imminent.
  • Kansas-nebraska Act
  • Bleeding Kansas
  • Compromise Of 1850
  • Dred Scott Decision
Slavery becomes outlawed in Washington D.C., California is admitted as a free state, and Utah and New Mexico will determine whether slavery is allowed through popular sovereignty. Also, the Fugitive Slave Law is passed.
  • Compromise of 1849
  • Compromise of 1850
  • Compromise of 1840
  • Compromise of 1750
Stated that exclusion of slavery in a territory (where it was legal) could be determined by the refusal of the voters to enact any laws that would protect slave property. Stated by Stephen Douglass during the Lincoln-Douglass debates, eventually led to his loss in the 1860 presidential election
  • Popular Sovereignty
  • Freeport Doctrine
  • Compromise Of 1850
  • Zachary Taylor
pro-slavery constitution written for Kansas' admission to the union in opposition to the anti-slavery Topeka Constitution; it was eventually rejected and Kansas became a free state in 1861
  • LeCompton Constitution
  • Kansas-nebraska Act
  • Compromise Of 1850
  • Republican Party
required 50 percent of the voters in a state to take a loyalty oath and permitted only non-Confederates to vote for a new state constitution; Lincoln pocket vetoed the bill.
  • Dred Scott Decision
  • Wade-Davis Bill
  • Compromise Of 1850
  • Ten Percent Plan
1865, Congress created the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands; acted as an early welfare agency of sorts, providing food, shelter, and medical aid for those made destitute by the war, both blacks and homeless whites; led by General Oliver O. Howard
  • Emancipation Proclamation
  • Freedmen's Bureau
  • Ku Klux Klan
  • Black Codes
Lincoln represented the Republicans. Stephen Douglas represented Northern Democrats, and John Breckinridge represented Southern Democrats. John Bell represented the Constitutional Party who wanted to heal the split between the North and South. Lincoln was not on the ballot in most southern states. It was primarily a sectional election (north v. south). Lincoln received the most popular votes (40%) and won the election with the electoral vote.
  • Election of 1860
  • Election of 1855
  • Election of 1865
  • Election of 1861
Lincoln vs. McClellan, Lincoln wants to unite North and South, McClellan wants war to end if he's elected, citizens of North are sick of war so many vote for McClellan, Lincoln wins
  • Election of 1854
  • Election of 1864
  • Election of 1865
  • Election of 1859
Proposal to prohibit slavery in any land acquired in the Mexican War, but southern senators, led by John C. Calhoun of South Carolina, defeated the measure in 1846 andIt Failed
  • Kansas-nebraska Act
  • Popular Sovereignty
  • Missouri Compromise
  • Wilmot Proviso
This amendment freed all slaves without compensation to the slave owners. It legally forbade slavery in the United States.
  • emancipation Proclamation
  • black Codes
  • 13th Amendment
  • freedmen's Bureau
(July 1863)Civil War battle in Penn. that ended in Union victory, spelling doom for the Confederacy, which never again managed to invade the North.Site of General George Pickett's daring but doomed charge on the Northern lines.
  • Antietam
  • Sherman's March to the Sea
  • Emancipation Proclamation
  • Battle of Gettysburg
a compromise law in 1854 that suspended the Missouri Compromise and left it to voters in Kansas and Nebraska to determine whether they would be slave or free states. the law exacerbated sectional tensions when voters can to blows over the question of slavery in Kansas. It was very controversial, supported by President Pierce and not supported by Douglass
  • Wilmot Proviso
  • Kansas-Nebraska Act
  • Compromise Of 1850
  • Popular Sovereignty
first major battle of the war that happened outside of Washington; people went with picnic baskets to watch the South come out victorious against the North; frenzied retreat proved the war would be longer than everyone thought
  • Battle of gettysburg
  • Bull Run / Manassas
  • Vicksburg
  • Antietam
Plan for civil war proposed by general-in-chief Winfield Scott, which emphasized the blockade of Southern ports and called for an advance down the Mississippi River the cut the South in two, the plan would suffocate the South
  • Anaconda Plan
  • Emancipation Proclamation
  • Gettysburg Address
  • Total War
former head of the union army and president. He supported reconstruction, but when it failed he didn't pursue alternatives. He was part of a scandal that involved Whiskey Ring, which was a network of liquor distillers and treasury agents who defrauded the government. He was put in trial and almost thrown into jail until Orville Babcock defended him.
  • Andrew Johnson
  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Jefferson Davis
  • Ulysses S Grant
a scandal that formed when a group of union pacific railroad insiders formed the credit mobilier construction company and then hired themselves to build the railroad with inflated wages. they bribed several congressmen and the vice president to keep the scandal from going public.
  • Radical Republicans
  • Credit Mobiler Scandal
  • Free Soil Party
  • Fugitive Slave Act Of 1852
The General of the Confederate troops; he was prosperous in many battles; was defeated at Antietam in 1862 when he retreated across the Potomac; this halt of Lee's troops justified Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation; he was defeated at Gettysburg by General Mead's Union troops; surrendered to General Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865.
  • Ulysses S. Grant
  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Jefferson Davis
  • Robert E. Lee
result of Stanton's dismissal by the President, this was the last straw for the House Republicans. Johnson was just barely acquitted. As a result for the rest of his term he was powerless to alter the course of Reconstruction and the country.
  • Johnson's Impeachment
  • Andrew Johnson
  • Rutherford B. Hayes
  • Compromise Of 1877
Famous speech by Lincoln before the Civil War about the economy. "This country cannot be half slave and half free...."
  • "A House Divided"
  • nyc Draft Riots
  • freeport doctrine
  • gettysburg address
(1863) Abraham Lincoln's oft-quoted speech, delivered at the dedication of the cemetery at Gettysburg battlefield. In the address, Lincoln framed the war as a means to uphold the values of liberty.
  • Compromise Of 1877
  • Gettysburg Address
  • 13th Amendment
  • Emancipation Proclamation
A fort in SE South Carolina, guarding Charleston Harbour. Its capture by Confederate forces (1861) was the first action of the Civil War.
  • Appomattox
  • Vicksburg
  • Antietam
  • Fort Sumter
This act pronounced all African Americans to be US citizens (repudiated the Dred Scott decision), and also attempted to provide a legal shield against the operation of the southern states' Black Codes.
  • Civil Rights Act (1867)
  • Civil Rights Act (1766)
  • Civil Rights Act (1861)
  • Civil Rights Act (1866)
For popular sovereignty. the 15th president of the united states (1857-1861). he tried to maintain a balance between proslavery and antislavery factions, but his moderate views angered radicals in both north and south, and he was unable to forestall the secession of south carolina on december 20, 1860.
  • Franklin Pierce
  • Ulysses S. Grant
  • Abraham Lincoln
  • James Buchanan
In 1859, the militant abolitionist John Brown seized the U.S. arsenal at Harper's Ferry. He planned to end slavery by massacring slave owners and freeing their slaves. He was captured and executed.
  • Bleeding Kansas
  • Wilmot Proviso
  • John Brown's Raid
  • Abraham Lincoln
aka the American Party; major political force from 1854-1855; objective: to extend period of naturalization, undercut immigrant voting strengths, and keep aliens in their place
  • Know-Nothing Party
  • Republican Party
  • Ku Klux Klan
  • Free Soil Party
Jefferson Davis was the President of the Southern Confederate States from 1860 to 1865 after their succession from the Union. During this time, Davis struggled to form a solid government for the states to be governed by. Jefferson Davis worked hard with solidating the civil government and carrying out military operations.
  • Robert E. Lee
  • Ulysses S. Grant
  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Jefferson Davis
these laws provided for the return of escaped slaves to their owners. The North was lax about enforcing the 1793 law, which irritated the South to no end. The 1850 law was tougher and was aimed at eliminating the underground railroad.
  • Fugitive Slave Act of 1847
  • Fugitive Slave Act of 1852
  • Fugitive Slave Act of 1752
  • Fugitive Slave Act of 1853
honest frontiersman from IL; the "rail-splitter" officially joined politics after the KS-NE act; challenged Douglas for the IL senate seat and although he put up a good fight, lost; won the election of 1860 as 1st successful Republican-president thru civil war
  • Andrew Johnson
  • Stephen Douglas
  • Ulysses S. Grant
  • Abraham Lincoln
Whig slave holder. general that was a military leader in mexican-american war and 12th president of the united states. sent by president polk to lead the american army against mexico at rio grande, but defeated.
  • Franklin Pierce
  • Abraham Lincoln
  • James Buchanan
  • Zachary Taylor
Supreme Court decision that stated three things: Blacks were not citizens and therefore could not sue in federal courts; Because a slave is their master's property, they can be taken into any territory and held there in slavery; Congress had no power to ban slavery from the territories
  • Wade-davis Bill
  • Kansas-nebraska Act
  • Compromise Of 1850
  • Dred Scott Decision
An economic crash that arose due to the inflation caused by inpouring California gold. The demands of the Crimean War over-stimulated grain growth and land speculation, and when the collapse came over five thousand businesses failed. Northern farmers were hard-hit by the panic, while the South basically went untouched. Also the panic created a clamor of higher tariff rates.
  • Panic of 1858
  • Panic of 1847
  • Panic of 1957
  • Panic of 1857
1856 - Charles Sumner gave a two day speech on the Senate floor. He denounced the South for crimes against Kansas and singled out Senator Andrew Brooks of South Carolina for extra abuse. Brooks beat Sumner over the head with his cane, severely crippling him.
  • Dred Scott Decision
  • Sumner-Brooks Incident
  • James Buchanan
  • Lincoln-douglas Debates
an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted. At the time, the United States contained twenty-two states, evenly divided between slave and free.
  • Wilmot Proviso
  • Kansas-nebraska Act
  • Missouri Compromise
  • Popular Sovereignty
a group of mostly Southerners who were extremely racist against African Americans, and disliked all other cultures and races. They originated in Tennessee inGeneral Forrest was in charge of this group. The members of this group dominated the democratic party. They also released a campaign that terrified the republicans. The Ku Klux Klan went around blackmailing many republican politicians and burned black schools and churches.
  • Scalawags
  • Freedmen's Bureau
  • Ku Klux Klan
  • Radical Republicans
in April 1865, the end of the Civil War came suddenly when Northern troops cornered Lee here.
  • Antietam
  • Vicksburg
  • Fort Sumter
  • Appomattox
1870Suffrage given to black males.Congress has the power to enforce this via legislation.
  • 15th Amendment
  • black Codes
  • freedmen's Bureau
  • emancipation Proclamation
When John Brown (abolitionist) and followers murdered 5 pro-slavery settlers in Kansas then mutilated their bodies to scare other slave supporters and to keep slavery supporters from moving into Kansas.
  • Wilmot Proviso
  • Pottawatomie Massacre
  • Franklin Pierce
  • John Brown's Raid
Grant defeated two Confederate armies and destroyed the city, this was across the river near Vicksburg, Mississippi. Five days later they had complete control of the Mississippi.
  • Appomattox
  • Vicksburg
  • Fort Sumter
  • Antietam
Botched Union attempt to capture the capital Richmond by circumventing the Confederate army by sea, McClellan responsible for Union failure, also Seven Days Battle
  • Gettysburg Address
  • Sherman's March To The Sea
  • Peninsular Campaign
  • Pottawatomie Massacre
A general and political leader of the nineteenth century. He became commanding general of the Union army during the Civil War. He accepted the unconditional surrender of the commanding general of the main Confederate army, Robert E. Lee, at Appomattox Court House. A Republican, he later became president.
  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Andrew Johnson
  • Robert E. Lee
  • Ulysses S. Grant
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