History Lecture: Crisis and Reconstruction

Vocabulary practice cards based on key terms, figures, and concepts from the Civil War and Reconstruction era study guide.

Providence

The god given right to do what u want

Nat Turner Rebellion

nat turner and a group of people lead a rebellion against slave holders killing over 50 people and becoming a influencer

Manifest Destiny

The god given right to move out west

Assimilation

The proses of learning and understanding ideas

Secession

Southern states leaving the union to create there own because of new slavery laws

Displacement

People being moved from there home land or area

Missouri Compromise

That states below a certain line could have slaves

Election of 1860

The one with abberham Lincoln, John Breckenridge, Steven Douglas and John bell

Colonization

Coming to new land and claiming it as one’s own

John Brown

Influencer who advocated for African American rights

Johnny Clem

Youngest soldier to gain commander after killing a colonel at the battle of chika munga

Susie King Taylor

First African American military nurse and teacher

The Sand Creek Massacre

The mass murdering of Native Americans

3 Major Consequences of the Civil War

Abolishment of slavery, federal government, immense human loss

John Wilkes Booth's Motive

To originally kidnap Lincoln but it changed to assassinate him

John Wilkes Booth's Assassination Plan

He was to shoot the president jump to the stage and escape from a horse

Reconstruction Amendments

The 13th 14th and 15th and made equal rights for African American voting and safety

Hiram Revels & Blanche Bruce

Pioneering black rebels who became senators

Presidential vs. Congressional Reconstruction

Quick reconstruction and imposed strict law for freed slaves

Sharecropping

Farming tools and land being shared for a portion of the crops