Key Terms Week 5 Anthony Burns Slave that escaped to Boston and was tried several people paid for his freedom Kansas Nebraska Act 1854 The transcontinental railroad would go north Nebraska and Kansas would be created and repealed the Missouri Compromise line created the Republican party out of those against it Bleeding Kansas Mini war between pro slave and anti slave parties in the new territory Kansas as to whether or not to become slave or free state Sen Charles Sumner Rep Preston Brooks Brooks caned Sumner after he insulted his uncle when talking about Bleeding Kansas Dred Scott 1857 Said slaves weren t citizens and had no right to sue in court Lincoln Douglas debates 1858 Argued over slavery with Lincoln against and Douglas not siding Harper s Ferry 1859 John Brown and a group of men raided arsenal in Harper s Ferry to promote slave insurrection it didn t work but it convinced south it needed to secede Lincoln elected 1860 caused by a split for sovereignty and pro slavery south decided to secede The Civil War 1861 1865 War over slavery Fort Sumter 1861 Bombardment by the confederates initiated the Civil War Anaconda Plan Plan to attack the south by surrounding and suffocating the south southern unionists Treated poorly by Confederate soldiers ex Hanging of Gainesville Antietam 1862 Important battle where the Union won and led to the Emancipation Proclamation Emancipation Proclamation All states in confederacy slaves would be freed declared that war was about ending slavery Gettysburg 1863 After this battle the South was never able to threaten the north again Appomattox 1865 Lee surrendered to Grant which ended the war Abraham Lincoln President that led Union in Civil War Ulysses Grant Strong general that lead the war effort for the North William Sherman March to the Sea that destroyed a 60 mile wide path through Georgia Jefferson Davis Provisional president of the confederacy Massachusetts 54th regiment Black regiment that fought for Union first income tax to pay for war South had little money and created an income tax to pay war debt assassination John Wilkes Booth killed Lincoln at theatre Os Confederados Confederates that moved to Brazil to avoid giving up slaves Reconstruction 1865 1877 Lincoln wanted moderate requirements to rejoin union and Radical Republicans wanted more period after Civil War how to deal with traitors South were considered traitors and rebels not a different nation Presidential Reconstruction Considered lenient only required abolition oath and revoke secession Congressional or Radical Reconstruction Much more strict reconstruction 13 14 15th Amendments 13 made slavery illegal 14 everyone born in US is citizen 15 Couldn t deny suffrage based on previous enslavement or race Juneteenth Time when Texan blacks learned of their freedom Freedmen s Bureau created to aid newly freed slaves highly ineffective sharecropping and tenant farming New method of slavery where land would be rented and debt would grow forcing whomever worked there to stay carpetbaggers and scalawags Southerner name for northerners moving south and southerners that didn t support Democratic cause Compromise of 1877 Withdrawing federal troops from south along with other promises for Hayes R Redeemers Whites who were against blacks voting wanted to redeem white supremacy Lost Cause Cause of War Said it wasn t slavery but states rights
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