Civil War and Reconstruction Flashcards

Flashcards covering the causes, course, and consequences of the Civil War and Reconstruction, designed for review.

Frederick Douglass criticized the hypocrisy of celebrating __ while enslaving people.

freedom

__ was deeply rooted in Southern society and economy.

Enslavement

Differences in the North and South caused Americans to feel more __ to their region than to the nation.

loyal

The __ (1820) balanced slave and free states but avoided deeper issues.

Missouri Compromise

The __ (1854) allowed new territories to vote on slavery and led to violence.

Kansas-Nebraska Act

The __ ruled African Americans couldn’t be citizens and deemed the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional.

Dred Scott Decision

__'s failed slave uprising increased Southern fear and Northern support for abolition.

John Brown

Abraham Lincoln won the __ with no Southern support.

Election of 1860

Two Union advantages were a larger and a strong military strategy like the .

population, Anaconda Plan

The __ (1863) freed enslaved people in Confederate states.

Emancipation Proclamation

The Emancipation Proclamation shifted war goals toward __.

ending slavery

__ honored fallen soldiers and reaffirmed national ideals of equality and democracy in the Gettysburg Address.

Lincoln

Republicans supported abolition and a strong federal government; __ favored state rights and sympathized with the South.

Democrats

The __ amendment abolished slavery (except as punishment for a crime).

13th

The __ Amendment granted citizenship and equal protection under the law.

14th

The __ Amendment gave voting rights to Black men.

15th

The __ was created to assist formerly enslaved people with food, jobs, and education.

Freedmen’s Bureau

__ was the first Black U.S. Senator.

Hiram Revels

Northerners who moved South after the war—some to help, others to profit, were called __.

Carpetbaggers

Southerners who supported Reconstruction and worked with Republicans were called __.

Scalawags

A system where freedmen and poor whites work land owned by others in return for a share of crops is called __.

Sharecropping

The __ were early laws passed in Southern states restricting the rights and freedoms of African Americans.

Black Codes

__ enforced racial segregation in public spaces and services, starting after federal troops left the South.

Jim Crow Laws

__ legalized segregation under the doctrine of “separate but equal.”

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

Tactics like literacy tests, poll taxes, and violence were used to __ Black men from voting.

disenfranchise

The Ku Klux Klan and White League used violence and terror to suppress __ political power and maintain white dominance.

Black

The period between Reconstruction and the Civil Rights Movement marked by extreme racial violence and legal segregation is called __.

The Nadir (Low Point)

__ was a journalist and anti-lynching activist who exposed the brutal reality of racially motivated killings.

Ida B. Wells