Unit 1 (Civil War, Reconstruction, Go West, Farmers)

Civil War

• Fought in the US from 1861-1865 over slavery and states' rights after Lincoln's election.

• Segregated African Americans.

• Admitted Missouri (slave) and Maine (free), barred slavery north of 36.30'N in Louisiana Purchase.

Suffrage

• Agency that Aided freed slaves.

• Railroad regulation.

• The right to vote.

Anaconda Plan

• Northern strategy in the Civil War to starve the South by blockading ports

• Abolished slavery.

• 16th US President during Civil War.

• Failed slave revolt attempt, pre-Civil War tension.

Emancipation Proclamation (1863)

• Lincoln's decree freeing enslaved people in Confederate states. Gave the war a MORAL cause

• Territorial residents decide on slavery.

• Party Formed in 1854 against slavery.

• Populist Democrat supporting bimetallism.

Secession

• Lincoln's speech dedicating a cemetery and reaffirming Union ideals.

• The rebuilding of the US after the Civil War

• Formal withdrawal of states from the Union; South left after Lincoln's election.

• Farmer advocacy group.

Abolitionist

• Voting rights regardless of race.

• Someone who opposes slavery (e.g., Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe).

• Settler-Native conflicts.

• Failed slave revolt attempt, pre-Civil War tension.

Free-Soil Party

• Failed slave revolt attempt, pre-Civil War tension.

• Party formed in 1848 to prevent slavery's spread west.

• Party for Farmers

• Restricted Black voting.

Popular Sovereignty

• Segregated laws post-Reconstruction.

• Popular vote. Local residents vote on slavery in the West.

• Gold and silver currency system.

• Populist Democrat supporting bimetallism.

Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)

• Northern strategy in the Civil War to starve the South by blockading ports and controlling the Mississippi River.

• Compromise that allowed the Kansas and Nebraska territories to vote on slavery - popular sovereignty

• Legalized segregation.

• Post-Civil War US South rebuilding.

Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)

• Settler-Native conflicts.

• Supreme Court legalized segregation in all public facilities - busses, schools, libraries, etc

• Northerners moving South post-Civil War.

• Supreme Court overrode all prior compromises. Slaves considered "property". Fueled start of Civil War