Civil War and Reconstruction Era Review

Flashcards based on Civil War and Reconstruction Era lecture notes.

10% Plan

Lincoln’s plan for quick Southern reentry - 10% of voters pledge loyalty.

13th Amendment

Abolished slavery in the US.

14th Amendment

Guaranteed citizenship and equal protection.

15th Amendment

Gave Black men the right to vote.

Anaconda Plan

Union’s strategy to blockade and split the south.

Emancipation Proclamation

Freed slaves in Confederate-held territory.

Compromise of 1850

California admitted free; stricter Fugitive Slave Act.

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Allowed popular sovereignty to decide slavery in territories.

Dred Scott Decision

Ruled that slaves were property, not citizens.

Bleeding Kansas

Violent clashes over slavery in Kansas territory.

Black Codes

Laws restricting freedoms of Blacks after the Civil War.

Jim Crow Laws

Enforced racial segregation in the South post-Reconstruction.

Sharecropping

Farming system keeping freedmen in cycles of debt.

Congressional Reconstruction

Radical Republicans' harsh plan for rebuilding the South.

Presidential Reconstruction

Johnson’s lenient plan toward Southern states.

Abraham Lincoln

16th President; led U.S. through Civil War.

Andrew Johnson

17th President; oversaw lenient Reconstruction.

Ulysses S. Grant

Union General; 18th President.

Jefferson Davis

President of the Confederacy.

Robert E. Lee

Confederate General; surrendered at Appomattox.

William T. Sherman

Union General; led “March to the Sea.”

Stonewall Jackson

Key Confederate General.

Stephen Douglas

Debated Lincoln; supported popular sovereignty.

John Brown

Radical abolitionist who raided Harpers Ferry.

James K. Polk

President during the Mexican-American War.

James Buchanan

President before the Civil War; failed to prevent secession.

Henry Clay

Known as the “Great Compromiser.”

Roger B. Taney

Chief Justice; wrote Dred Scott decision.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

William Lloyd Garrison

Leading abolitionist; publisher of The Liberator.