Civil War & Reconstruction
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Trigger Words
Black codes-The Black Codes were laws in the United States after the Civil War with the effect of limiting the Civil rights and civil liberties of blacks.
Compromise of 1850-The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five bills, passed in the United States in September 1850, which defused a four-year confrontation between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War.
Dred Scott-Dred Scott was an African-American slave in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and that of his wife and their two daughters in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857.
Emancipation Proclamation- The Emancipation Proclamation is an executive order issued to the executive agencies of the United States by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the American Civil War.
Freeport Doctrine- The Freeport Doctrine was articulated by Stephen A. Douglas at the second of the Lincoln-Douglas debates on August 27, 1858, in Freeport, Illinois. Lincoln tried to force Douglas to choose between the principle of popular sovereignty proposed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the majority decision of the United States Supreme Court in the case of Dred Scott v. Sandford, which stated that slavery could not legally be excluded from U.S. territories.
Kansas Nebraska act- The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening ne-w lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing settlers in those territories to determine through Popular Sovereignty whether they would allow slavery within each territory.
Know-Nothings- The Know Nothing was a movement by the nativist American political faction of the 1850s, characterized by political xenophobia, anti-Catholic sentiment, and occasional bouts of violence against the groups the nativists targeted.
Ostend Manifesto-The Ostend Manifesto was a document written in 1854 that described the rationale for the United States to purchase Cuba from Spain while implying that the U.S. should declare war if Spain refused.
Radical Republicans- The Radical Republicans were a loose faction of American politicians within the Republican Party from about 1854 until the end of Reconstruction in 1877. They called themselves "radicals" and were opposed during the war by moderates and conservative factions led by Abraham Lincoln and after the war by self-described "conservatives" (in the South) and "Liberals" (in the North).
Reconstruction plans- the transformation of the Southern United States from 1863 to 1877, as directed by Washington, with the reconstruction of state and society.
Scalawags- scalawags were southern whites who supported Reconstruction and the Republican Party after the Civil War.
WIlmot Proviso- The Wilmot Proviso, one of the major events leading to the American Civil War, would have banned slavery in any territory to be acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War or in the future, including the area later known as the Mexican Cession, but which some proponents construed to also include the disputed lands in south Texas and New Mexico east of the Rio Grande
Compromise of 1850-The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five bills, passed in the United States in September 1850, which defused a four-year confrontation between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War.
Dred Scott-Dred Scott was an African-American slave in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and that of his wife and their two daughters in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857.
Emancipation Proclamation- The Emancipation Proclamation is an executive order issued to the executive agencies of the United States by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the American Civil War.
Freeport Doctrine- The Freeport Doctrine was articulated by Stephen A. Douglas at the second of the Lincoln-Douglas debates on August 27, 1858, in Freeport, Illinois. Lincoln tried to force Douglas to choose between the principle of popular sovereignty proposed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the majority decision of the United States Supreme Court in the case of Dred Scott v. Sandford, which stated that slavery could not legally be excluded from U.S. territories.
Kansas Nebraska act- The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening ne-w lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing settlers in those territories to determine through Popular Sovereignty whether they would allow slavery within each territory.
Know-Nothings- The Know Nothing was a movement by the nativist American political faction of the 1850s, characterized by political xenophobia, anti-Catholic sentiment, and occasional bouts of violence against the groups the nativists targeted.
Ostend Manifesto-The Ostend Manifesto was a document written in 1854 that described the rationale for the United States to purchase Cuba from Spain while implying that the U.S. should declare war if Spain refused.
Radical Republicans- The Radical Republicans were a loose faction of American politicians within the Republican Party from about 1854 until the end of Reconstruction in 1877. They called themselves "radicals" and were opposed during the war by moderates and conservative factions led by Abraham Lincoln and after the war by self-described "conservatives" (in the South) and "Liberals" (in the North).
Reconstruction plans- the transformation of the Southern United States from 1863 to 1877, as directed by Washington, with the reconstruction of state and society.
Scalawags- scalawags were southern whites who supported Reconstruction and the Republican Party after the Civil War.
WIlmot Proviso- The Wilmot Proviso, one of the major events leading to the American Civil War, would have banned slavery in any territory to be acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War or in the future, including the area later known as the Mexican Cession, but which some proponents construed to also include the disputed lands in south Texas and New Mexico east of the Rio Grande
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Primary Source
Virginia Leaves the Union, 1861http://college.cengage.com/history
Summary: Virginia accepted the Constitution and they saw that if slavery was abolished it would harm their way of living. So they chose to repeal the constitution that they had once accepted. And they decided that it would not be a part of the union. Virginia used the states' rights and became a independent state. Significance: By Virginia choosing to seceded from the Union it showed the power the states had. It also foreshadowed that other Southern states would join Virginia and also seceded. Amber A. |
Letter to Horace Greeley
http://www.constitutional.net/131.html Summary: This is a letter written by Abraham Lincoln to Horace Greeley in reply to something Greeley wrote in the New-York Tribune. Lincoln states that he doesn't want to argue about anything he wrote, but just wants to clarify what he wants to do as president, which is to reunite the Union. He also writes to Greeley that his full intentions are to return the Union as it once was, and he will do as he sees as beneficial and cannot please everyone. Significance: This letter is important because of how it expresses Lincoln's true understanding that he can't satisfy everyone at once, and has to do whats best for everyone overall, rather than focus on specific groups of people. Bianca M. |