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- 5. Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner were both ______Republicans They wanted to go hard on the South after the Civil War
- 8. Fort _______ was the 1st battle of the Civil War
- 10. The ______ of 1877 marks the end of Reconstruction when the Union troops come home. It has also been called, "The Second Corrupt Bargain."
- 12. ______Klux Klan An organization of Confederate Veterans focused on ending Reconstruction & subjugating the Freedmen
- 13. ______like Edmund Ruffin were extremists in the South who encouraged Secession (2 words)
- 14. A system where a landowner allows freedmen and landless whites to use the land in return for a share of the harvest profits:
- 16. __________Kansas was a violent guerrilla war in the 1850's between pro & anti-slave settlers. This directly led to the birth of the Republican Party.
- 19. Proposed Kansas constitution, whose ratification was unfairly rigged so as to guarantee slavery in the territory. Initially ratified by proslavery forces, it was later voted down when Congress required that the entire constitution be put up for a vote.
- 20. The end of Reconstruction is partially due to the _________ of 1873
- 23. Southern Democratic politicians who sought to wrest control from Republican regimes in the South after Reconstruction.
- 24. The decision of a state to separate from the government of the United States is called this
- 25. In the Sanford V. ____Supreme Court decision, it was decided that Congress didn't have the power to prohibit slavery & slaves couldn't sue for freedom
- 26. the executive order that abolished slavery in the confederate territories as a wartime expedient was called the ______ proclamation.
- 30. He became president after Lincoln was assassinated; from Tennessee; first president to be impeached
- 32. __________ Rights Bill of 1866: Passed over Andrew Johnson's veto, the bill aimed to counteract the Black Codes by conferring citizenship on African Americans and making it a crime to deprive blacks of their rights to sue, testify in court, or hold property.
- 33. The _________ Act Proposed that the issue of slavery be decided by popular sovereignty in the Kansas and Nebraska territories, thus revoking the 1820 Missouri Compromise; introduced by Stephen Douglass in an effort to bring Nebraska into the Union and pave the way for a northern transcontinental railroad. (2 words)
- 34. __________Revels: First person of color to ever serve in the Senate, and represented Mississippi during Reconstruction.
- 36. ________ Ferry Prelude to the Civil war- attack led by John Brown in 1859
- 38. Five slave states—Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware, and West Virginia—that did not secede during the Civil War. To keep the states in the Union, Abraham Lincoln insisted that the war was not about abolishing slavery but rather protecting the Union. (2 words)
- 39. The ______Amendment clarifies that Being born in the US makes you a citizen with full civil rights & thus reverses the Dred Scott Decision
- 40. The Turning point battle of the Civil war in 1863 was
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- 1. Southerners who assisted to implement Reconstruction. were called______.
- 2. Northern Democrats who obstructed the war effort by attacking Abraham Lincoln, the draft and, after 1863, emancipation.
- 3. Rewritten slave codes presented as laws in the South. These were intended to roll back the rights of the freedmen and were called: ______. (2 words)
- 4. The _____Bureau was created in 1865 to aid newly free slaves by providing food, clothing, medical care, education, and legal support.
- 6. a term used by Southern whites to describe Northern businessmen and politicians who came to the South after the Civil War to work on Reconstruction projects or invest in Southern infrastructure.
- 7. Laws passed during the Grant administration to end the KKK & White League were called the __________acts
- 9. The _____Amendment granted the vote to Freedmen, (but not women)
- 11. The ______Slave Law was a part of the compromise of 1850 allowing escaped slaves to be arrested anywhere in the country & returned to slavery
- 15. Johnson's plan to go soft on the South after the war was called ______ Reconstruction
- 17. Reconstruction was strict and Passed by the newly elected Republican Congress. It divided the South into five military districts, disenfranchised former confederates, and required that Southern states both ratify the Fourteenth Amendment and write states constitutions guaranteeing freedmen the franchise before gaining readmission to the Union.
- 18. Thaddeus ______was a Pennsylvania Senator and Radical Republican who said, "When I die, bury me in a Black cemetery." He pushed hard for the rights of freedmen after the war.
- 21. Compromise of 1850 Admitted ________-as a free state, opened New Mexico and Utah to popular sovereignty, ended the slave trade (but not slavery itself) in Washington D.C., and introduced a more stringent fugitive slave law. Widely opposed in both the North and South, it did little to settle the escalating dispute over slavery.
- 22. Amendment (ratified 1870): Prohibited states from denying citizens the franchise on account of race. It disappointed feminists who wanted the Amendment to include guarantees for women's suffrage.
- 23. Political party that was formed in opposition to Slavery’s Westward expansion after the violence in Bleeding Kansas
- 27. The _____Compromise was proposed by a Kentucky senator, it was the last attempted compromise before the civil war.
- 28. ____________ Sovereignty: A popular belief in the 1850's that the question of slavery in the territories should be determined by vote of people living there:
- 29. Boss______was the head of the corrupt New York Tammany Hall Machine
- 31. ___________ of Office Act (1867): Required the President to seek approval from the Senate before removing appointees. When Andrew Johnson removed his secretary of war in violation of the act, he was impeached by the house but remained in office when the Senate fell one vote short of removing him.
- 35. Defacto end of the Civil War- where the Army of Northern Virginia Surrendered
- 37. _____________ Douglas was a champion of Popular Sovereignty, senator from Illinois & an advocate of the Kansas Nebraska act