Civil war and Reconstruction

Civil War and Reconstruction

Election of Lincoln

Fort Sumter

Border States

Advantages of North/South

Goals of North/South

Suspension of Habeas Corpus/Lincoln’s Actions

“Ninety Day War”

Battle of Bull Run

Battle of Antietam 

Emancipation Proclamation

“Rich Man’s War”/NYC Draft Riots

Decision to Use African-American Troops

Military Turning Points

Election of 1864/Copperheads

“Total War”

Homestead Act/Railroad Act/Morrill Land Grant/Banking - Significance

Reasons for Northern Victory

13th Amendment/14th Amendment/15th Amendment

Ten Percent Plan

Wade-Davis Bill

Lincoln’s Assassination

Andrew Johnson

Black Codes

Freedmen’s Bureau

Civil Rights Act of 1866

Radical Reconstruction - Examples

Tenure of Office Act/Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

Carpetbaggers/Scalawags

Sharecroppers

Ku Klux Klan
Grant’s policies to support Civil Rights

Election of 1876/Compromise of 1877

Jim Crow

Plessy v Ferguson/”Separate but Equal”

Methods of Limiting Voting Rights

Lynching