Better military leaders, knowledege of the area where most battles were fought
Effects of Emancipation Proclamation
-encouraged african slaves to fight -made union army stronger politically -focused on freedom for all
Fort Sumter
First battle of the Civil War, in which the federal fort in Charleston (South Carolina) Harbor was captured by the Confederates on April 14, 1861, aft...
Two groups denied citizenship due to Dred Scott v. Sandford
Enslaved African Americans, Free Blacks
William Carney
Member of 54 Mass. Regiment. 1st black to received medal of honor for attack on Fort Wagner
Goals of Reconstruction Act of 1867
Protect African Americans, New State Constitutions for Confederate states
Black Codes
Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves; passed by southern states following the Civil War, passed to limit effects of Reconstruction Ame...
Compromise of 1850
California free state, Territories can decide for themselves, Fugitive Slave Law
Gettysburg, PA
Turning point of the Civil War. Confederacy invades the North
Battle of Vicskburg Missisippi
Union gained control of the Mississippi River splitting the confederacy in 2.
Memphis Massacre
occured because of a lack of protection for African Americans rights during the Reconstruction period.
Abraham Lincoln
President of US issued emancipation proclamation
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe that convinced Americans to become abolitionists and try to ban slavery
Compromises about slavery
Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, Kansas-Nebraska Act
Reason for Missouri Compromise
Maintain equal balance of free and slave states
Abolitionist Movement evets
Quakers found Manumission society, William Lloyd Garisson publishes the LIberator, Frederick Douglass founds the North Star, Harriet Beecher Stowe pub...
Lincoln hated the-
spread of slavery
Philip Bazaar
naval seaman from Chili who received the Congressional Medal of Honor during the Civil War
14th Amendment
granted citizenship to African Americans, all people are to receive equal treatment, passed during Reconstruction era.
Battle of Antietam
Bloodiest day in the Civil War, Happened in PA, Convinced Lincoln to pass emancipation Proclamation
Radical Reconstruction Plans
Confederates cannot obtain political positions, passed 14th Amendment
The North Star
antislavery newspaper published by Fredrick Douglass
Ways the South sought to limit the 15th amendment
Poll taxes, Literacy Tests, Grandfather Clauses
Ulysses S. Grant
Union General, commanded army of potomac
Hiram Rhodes Revels
was the 1st African American to serve in congress, took over Jefferson Davis' Senate seat.
Effect of Fugitive Slave Act
people in the North became abolitionists, people could capture escaped slaves in the North
13th Amendment
Ends slavery
Battles fought in the North
Antietam, Gettysburg
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