Unit 2 - Civil War & Reconstruction

Missouri Compromise 1820

All territories above latitude line 36° 30´ is no slavery, all territories below latitude line 36° 30´ is slavery

Compromise of 1850

California enters the US as a free state, but now Northerners are required by law to return fugitive slaves back to the South, Washington DC abolishes slave-trade, and Utah & New Mexico use popular sovereignty (citizen voting) to determine slavery legality

Kansas Nebraska Act 1854

Kansas & Nebraska turn into seperate states and they have the ability to popular sovereignty and vote for the legality of slavery. This also repeals the Missouri Compromise 1820.

Slavery & states rights

Divided North & South

13th Amendment

Outlawed slavery

14th Amendment

Citizenship

15th Amendment

Voting rights

Black Codes / Jim Crow Laws

Passed to limit the Amendments 13, 14, & 15

Ku Klux Klan

Social club for former Confederates that terrorized African-Americans

Dred Scott v. Sanford

Repealed / negated the Missouri Compromise and said slaves were property, not citizens

Plessy v. Ferguson

Separate but equal; segregation is declared legal

Freedmen’s Bureau

Provided support to Blacks and poor Whites during Reconstruction

Reconstruction

An effect of the civil war, the process of rebuilding the South

Requirements to rejoin Union

Loyalty, abolition, new constitution, Congress had to approve new states government, Confederate leaders were temporarily banned from office