Post on 18-Dec-2015
Test ReviewPre-Civil War, Civil War, Reconstruction
Sectionalism
A devotion to the interests of one geographic region over the interests of the country as a wholeThe north was more industrious, the South had plantations, and the West was mostly small farms.
Economics in the North, South, and West
North made money by manufacturing goodsSouth depended on large plantations and the exportation of cottonThe West was farming
Missouri Compromise
"Compromise of 1820" over the issue of slavery in Missouri. It was decided Missouri entered as a slave state and Maine entered as a free state and all states North of the 36th parallel (Southern border of Missouri)were free states and all South were slave states.-tried to solve the issue of slave states vs. free states
Kansas-Nebraska Act
1. slavery in new Kansas and Nebraska territories was to be decided by popular sovereignty
2. undid the Missouri Compromise
3. reopened the issue of slavery in the territories
4. north outraged
Popular Sovereignty
1. A government in which the people rule by their own consent (directly vote)
2. People directly voted to whether or not there was going to be slavery in the states they resided
Dred Scott v. Sanford
The case that ruled that slaves were property and couldnot sue because they were not citizens. This outraged
abolitionists.
Reasons for secession and cause of immediatesecession
Sectionalism, fight over slave/free states, nullification crisis in South Carolina, fight over tariffs,
Immediate cause- election of Abraham Lincoln
North and South Advantages during War
North- more railroads, factories to make goods, more people
South- knew the area better where they were fighting, excellent generals (Robert E. Lee)
North and South Plans during War
North- Anaconda Plan-take over the southern ports, keep them from being able to receive supplies and goods
South- fight a defensive war and wait for the North to get tired
Lincoln’s primary goal during the Civil War
Preserve the Union!
Political and Economic changes as result of war
Political-federal government’s power was strengthened over the states, secession no longer allowed by states
Economic- south was economically devastated, northern economy stimulated
Lincoln’s Plan
10% of voters from the last election had to pledge to support the union. Pardon all Confederates except high-ranking officials and those who were cruel to POW's
Johnson’s Plan
Reconstruction plan that was the 10% plan plus pardons for Confederate officers. It punished plantation owners and forced states to abolish slavery.
Johnson’s Plan
Reconstruction plan that was the 10% plan plus pardons for Confederate officers. It punished plantation owners and forced states to abolish slavery.
Radical Republican’s Plan
1) Southern States had to approve the 13 Amendment 2) Southern states had to apologize for seceding from the union. 3) The South could not repay loans from countries that helped them. 4) States had to ratify the 13th & 14th amendment5) enacted Military Control of Reconstruction with the Military Reconstruction Act-South divided into 5 sections
Andrew Johnson
impeached for violating Tenure of Office Act (fired Andrew Stanton)
Was not convicted by one vote
Who did North and South vote for? Which
party is in control during Reconstruction?South votes for DemocratsNorth votes for Republicans.
Radical Republicans are in control during Reconstruction.
KKK
Stands for Ku Klux Klan and started right after the Civil War in 1866. The Southern establishment took charge by passing discriminatory laws known as the black codes. Gives whites almost unlimited power. They masked themselves and burned black churches, schools, and terrorized black people.
13th , 14th ,15th
amendments
13th- abolishes slavery
14th- all blacks are citizens and have equal protection under the law
15th- all black have the right to vote
Conditions for slavery in north compared to south
North- more house servants
South-more farm hands and many more of them, conditions were much harder and slave owners often used violence to control them
Jim Crowe Laws
passed in the south after reconstruction enforcing the segregation of blacks and whites
Black Codes
Laws that restricted freedmen’s rights.The black codes established virtual slavery with
provisions such as these: Curfews, Labor Contracts, Limits on women's rights, and land restrictions.
Sharecropping and tenant farming
people who rent a plot of land from another person, and farm it in exchange for a share of the crop
Booker T. Washington
Believed racism would end if blacks could prove themselves worthy in the workforce
Wanted to open vocational schools to teach newly freed slaves a trade
W.E.B. DuBois
1st African American to graduate from Harvard College
Believed blacks should go to college to become an educated leader
Freemen’s Bureau
created at end of Civil War that aided southerners (mainly former slaves) with education, finding food, shelter and employment
Rutherford B. Hayes and the end of Reconstruction
Compromise of 1877- president Hayes promised to:1. withdraw federal troops from the South2. name a southerner to his Cabinet 3. support Federal spending on improving the South
Plessy v. Ferguson
Supreme Court case that ruled “separate but equal” facilities were legal and constitutional
Poll taxes, Literacy tests, Grandfather clause
All used to keep African Americans from voting
Poll taxes- charged a tax at the polls to voteLiteracy tests-had to read a test in order to voteGrandfather Clause- if their father or grandfather
previously voted, then they could vote