Civil War Flashcards
(22 cards)
🔹 Causes 🔹
🔹 Causes 🔹
Economic Differences Between North and South
The Civil War was about slavery and the failed Reconstruction was due to the South’s racism. The economy of the south focused upon slavery. Cotton was king, and it was the inhumane treatment of slaves that led to the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln was antislavery and his election angered the South. As a result the South left the Union which also led to the civil War. The South passed laws that restricted the Reconstruction efforts. The Black Codes denied blacks the right to vote, work in certain jobs and sit on juries. The South stated they had the right to leave the Union. Abraham Lincoln stated the Union of States was permanent. The Civil War was about the South’s racism and the treatment to the slaves and in the end, Reconstruction failed.
Missouri Compromise
1820, The issue was that Missouri wanted to join the Union as a slave state, therefore unbalancing the Union so there would be more slave states then free states. The compromise set it up so that Maine joined as a free state and Missouri joined as a slave state. Congress also made a line across the southern border of Missouri saying except for the state of Missouri, all states north of that line must be free states or states without slavery.
Compromise of 1850
Forestalled the Civil War by instating the Fugitive Slave Act , banning slave trade in DC, admitting California as a free state, splitting up the Texas territory, and instating popular sovereignty in the Mexican Cession
Kansas-Nebraska Act/popular sovereignty
The doctrine that stated that the people of a territory had the right to decide their own laws by voting. In the Kansas-Nebraska Act, this would decide whether a territory allowed slavery.
Dred Scott decision
What decision involved a Missouri slave sued for his freedom, claiming that his four year stay in the northern portion of the Louisiana Territory made free land by the Missouri Compromise had made him a free man. The U.S, Supreme Court decided he couldn’t sue in federal court because he was property, not a citizen.
Election of Lincoln
First ever election. South did not want Lincoln. Start of democratic parties.
🔹 Battles and Events 🔹
🔹 Battles and Events 🔹
Antietam
Maryland, September 16-18, 1862, bloodiest single day in American military history, 23,000 died
Emancipation Proclamation
Special order by President Lincoln on January 1st, 1863 declaring slaves in Confederate sates to be free
Advantages and Disadvantages of Union and Confederacy
Union had good manufacturing/South had cotton
Role of African-Americans in the war
The first African American Leaders came together to make this organization. They were supported by blacks from the north and anti-slavery army veterans. African Americans were able to be a part of legislatures, especially in South Carolina. During reconstruction 20 blacks in total were a part of the state administrations.
Gettysburg, Gettysburg Address
July 1st-3rd (1863) Union leaders defeated General Lee. A turning point battle during the Civil War
Appomattox
Lee forced to totally surrender at this court house in 1865; Union treated enemy with respect and allowed Lee’s men to return home to their families with their horseshoe
🔹 Reconstruction 🔹
🔹 Reconstruction 🔹
Presidential vs. Congressional Reconstruction
The Civil War was about slavery and the failed Reconstruction was due to the South’s racism. The economy of the south focused upon slavery. Cotton was king, and it was the inhumane treatment of slaves that led to the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln was antislavery and his election angered the South. As a result the South left the Union which also led to the civil War. The South passed laws that restricted the Reconstruction efforts. The Black Codes denied blacks the right to vote, work in certain jobs and sit on juries. The South stated they had the right to leave the Union. Abraham Lincoln stated the Union of States was permanent. The Civil War was about the South’s racism and the treatment to the slaves and in the end, Reconstruction failed.
Sharecropping
A system of work for freedmen who were employed in the cotton industry. This system traded a freedmen’s labor for the use of a house, land, and sometimes further accommodations.They would usually give half or more of their grown crop to their landlords.
Black Codes
The Black Codes were laws passed by southern states after the Civil War denying ex-slaves the complete civil rights enjoyed by whites and intended to force blacks back to plantations and impoverished lifestyles.
Radical Republicans
The Radical Republicans were a wing of the Republican Party organized around an uncompromising opposition to slavery before and during the Civil War and a vigorous campaign to secure rights for freed slaves during Reconstruction.
13th, 14th and 15th Amendments
13th Amendment (1865) Abolition of slavery: Slavery is not allowed in any state or territory under the govenment of the U.S.A.
14th Amendment (1868) Civil Rights in the States; All persons born or naturalized in the United States are subject to its laws and cannot be denied any of the rights and priviledges contained in the Constitution.
15th Amendment (1870) Black suffrage: Citizens cannot be denied their right to vote because of their race or color or because they were once slaves.
Andrew Johnson
A political leader of the nineteenth century. He was elected vice president in 1864 and became president when Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in 1865. Heis one of two presidents to have been impeached; the House of Representatives charged him with illegally dismissing a government official. The Senate tried him, and he was acquitted by only one vote.
“Redemption”/KKK
A secret organization in the southern U.S., active for several years after the Civil War, which aimed to suppress the newly acquired powers of blacks and to oppose carpetbaggers from the North, and which was responsible for many lawless and violent proceedings.
