history

13th amendment

Made abolitionists happy, caused south economy to change

Radical republicans

Impeached president Johnson , want to punish south for civil war

Freedmen’s Bureau

Created to help former slaves . Provided legal advice ,food, clothing ,and education

Scalawags

White southerners, supporters of radical reconstruction

Sharecropping

When ex slaves could have land but had to rent paying with crops

Black codes

Laws made against blacks

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

Sumpreme court case that legalized segregation.

Jim Crow laws

Laws meant to enforce segregation

Dred Scott

Couldn’t sue because spaces aren’t citizens

Three S’s

Slavery , sectionalism, states rights

Lincoln elected in ?

1860

How long was the Civil war

4 years long

Compromise of 1850

California became a free state

Battle of Antietam

We’re one of the battles of civil war , bloodiest battle ,1862

Aliens

People who aren’t from America

Sedition act

No newspapers could report anything about the government .

Sedition

Conduct or speech inciting people to rebel against the authority of the state .

xyz affair

Kidnapping sailors from their ships and making them fight for British .

Battle of Saratoga

Turning point of the war , biggest victory

Declaration of Independence

1776 Thomas Jefferson

Tea act

East India could sell in Colonies without paying taxes

Townshed act

Tax on goods imported from Britain ( glass, lead , paper ,tea)

Navigation act

Laws that restricted trade

Quartering act

Prohibited British soldiers from being quartered in private homes

William Penn

Founder of Pennsylvania leader of quakers