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Civil War and Recon

Civil War and Reconstruction Vocab for US History EOC Review

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African American Migration was the movement of six million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West between 1910 and 1970.
Anaconda Plan A naval blockade of the Confederate littoral and a thrust down the Mississippi River, and the strangulation of the South by Union land and naval forces.
Black Codes restrictive laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans and ensure their availability as a cheap labor force after slavery was abolished
Carpetbaggers a person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction.
Compromise of 1850 consists of five laws passed in September of 1850 that dealt with the issue of slavery and territorial expansion
Debt Peonage or debt bondage/debt slavery, bonded labour and or the pledge of a person's services as security for the repayment for a debt or other obligation.
Dred Scott Decision the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on March 6, 1857, that having lived in a free state and territory did not entitle an enslaved person, Dred Scott, to his freedom.
Emancipation Proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
Fifteenth 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.
Fourteenth Amendment granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States—including former enslaved people—and guaranteed all citizens “equal protection of the laws.”
Freeport Doctrine stated that slavery could be excluded from territories of the United States by local legislation
Gettysburg (Battle) significant Union victory (in Pennsylvania) considered by many to be the turning point of the Civil War
Gettysburg Address a speech given by President Lincoln where ideals are worth dying for and that it is up to the living to carry on the work of those who died to protect ideals.
Jim Crow Law statutes that legalized racial segregation (separation)
Kansas Nebraska Act the controversial bill raised the possibility that slavery could be extended into territories where it had once been banned. Its passage intensified the bitter debate over slavery in the United States, which would later explode into the Civil War.
Ku Klux Klan a violent post-Civil War secret society founded in Tennessee in 1866 to upend the Black political and social power that was being established during Reconstruction
Ostend Manifesto document written in 1854 that described the rationale for the United States to purchase Cuba from Spain while implying that the U.S. should declare war if Spain refused
Radical Republicans this group was distinguished by their fierce advocacy for the abolition of slavery, enfranchisement of black citizens, and holding the Southern states financially and morally culpable for the war
Sharecropping a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on the land
States Rights are political powers held for the state governments rather than the federal government. This was the main causes of the Civil War
Thirteenth Amendment Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Vicksburg (Battle of) was a decisive Union victory during the American Civil War that divided the Confederacy and cemented the reputation of Union General Ulysses S. Grant.
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