Unit Test Civil War
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- Spoils System
- Jackson rewarded supporters with government jobs
- Grandfather Clause
- 'you can vote, if your grandfather did'
- Kansas Nebraska Act
- expansion of slavery; beginning of sectionalism
- Solid South
- South historically voted along the Democratic Party lines
- Plessy v. Ferguson
- racial segregation is constitutional
- KKK
- Ku Klux Klan; organized to scare blacks and restrict their rights
- Booker T. Washington
- vocational education is the way to get equality
- Poll taxes
- blacks had to pay to vote
- Results of Civil War
- 13, 14, 15th amendments; Reconstruction; black codes, Jim Crow
- Monroe Doctrine
- prevent European Powers from colonizing in Western Hemisphere
- Popular Sovereignty
- let new state decide by popular vote about slavery
- Succession
- south leaves the union over states' rights
- Jim Crow Laws
- passed AFTER the ratification of 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments; restricted the rights of former slaves (Blacks)
- Missouri Compromise
- slavery
- Compromise of 1850
- over slavery; CA entered Union as free state; fugitive slave act amended
- Bleeding Kansas
- over slavery and popular sovereignty
- 13th Amendment
- Freed the slaves; slavery now illegal
- Slavery
- tension increased as westward expansion increased
- Black Codes
- enacted to restrict civil rights of blacks
- Age of Jackson
- Spoils System, Indian Removal Act, Trail of Tears, 'era of the common man'
- Literacy Test
- blacks had to read something (really hard) in order to be able to vote
- Manifest Destiny
- westward expansion; caused trouble with Native Americans
- Abolitionist Movement
- Anti-Slavery movement
- Preserving the Union
- reason for Civil War; Lincoln's goal
- 15th Amendment
- gave former slaves (freedmen) the right to vote
- Dred Scott v. Sanford
- Congress can't pass a law that deprives a territory resident of his property
- North and South differences
- economy; slavery; states' rights
- Louisiana Purchase
- Doubled size of US; Jefferson; control Mississippi River and port of New Orleans
- Reconstruction
- rebuilding the South after Civil War
- Abraham Lincoln
- election increased sectionalism; 'preserve and defend the union'; 'a union of people, not states'; lenient plan for Reconstruction
- Radical Republicans
- wanted to punish the south for seceding; at odds with President Johnson
- W.E.B. DuBois
- immediate equality!!!!!
- Sharecropping
- slaves stayed on the plantations and rented land; had to share crops with owner; kept former slaves in poverty
- 14th Amendment
- made the former slaves citizens
- Andrew Johnson
- President after Lincole; followed Lincoln's plan for reconstruction; was impeached