1. Made in January 1854 by Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois

2. The Act called for the creation of 2 new territories, Kansas and Nebraska

3. It also stated that the people in these territories would be permitted to decide whether slavery would be allowed there.

4. This act angered the northern Democrats.

1. Propsed by Henry Clay of Kentucky

2. LAWS

a) Congress would admit California into the Union as a free state

b) The people of the New Mexico and Utah territories would decide for themselves whether to allow slavery.

c) Congress would abolish the sale of enslaved people, but not slavery, in Wash. DC

d) Texas would give up claims to New Mexico for $10 million.

e) A Fugitive Slace Act would order all citizens of the US to assist in the return of escaped slaves and would deny a jury trial to escaped slaves. 

1. former Kansas raider

2. On Oct. 16, 1859 John Brown and a small group of men attacked the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia

3. Brown and his followers hoped to seize weapons and give them to enslaved people to start a slave uprising.

4. Sentenced to be hanged.

5. This raid only deepened the divisions between North and South

1. an enslaved man living in Missouri

2. filed suit against his owner

3. He argued that because he and his wife has once lived in states and territores where slavery was illegal, the couple was in fact free

1. proposed the Compromise of 1850

2. Proposed 5 seperate laws, 2 of which favored the North and 2 of which favored the South

1. In this type of war, one side inflicts continuous losses on the enemy in order to wear down its strength

2. this was the confederate war strategy

contraband

1. became law on December 18, 1865

2. ended slavery in the United States

1. was hired by Lincoln after the battle of Bull Run to buil and command a new army.

2. retreated after the Seven Day's Battles

3. after his failure Lincoln Hired General John Pope.

4. Was fired by Lincoln twice.

1. led the most successful Union forces in the West

2. Lincoln promoted him from colonel to general after his success at organizing and training a group of Illinois volunteers.

3. Lead in the Battle of Shiloh.

1. Believed in good training and planning.

2. He divided his 55000 man army

3. He lost about 1/3 of his army during the Battle of Antietam

1. Was nominated to run for Vice President.

2. He was a Democrate and a pro-Union Southerener.

1. a name used to refer to Northern Republicans who moved to the postwar South

2. the name implys that these northerners had stuffed some clothes into a carpetbag and rushed in to profit from Southern misery.

1. name used fro White southern Republicans

2. some were former whigs, and planters

3. not all of them were poor

1. next step up from sharecroppers.

2. system of farming in which a person rents land to farm from a planter

Helen Hunt Jackson

1. published book " A Century of Dishonor" in 1881

2. she wrote " It makes little difference... where one opens the record of the history of the Indians; every page and every year has its dark stain.

1. a formere silverite congressman from Nebraska and a powerful speaker

2. Gave the Cross of Gold speech

William F. Cody

1. also known as "Buffalo Bill"

2. created popular wild west shows that contributed to frontier myths.

1. used by Grant during the Vicksburg battles.

2. enemy is surrounded and starverd in order to make it surrender

1. an African American who migrated to the West after the Civil War

2. 50,000 or more Exodusters migrated west

William T. Sherman

1. General who directed army attacks against Native Americans in the 1870's; commanded army forces killed in 1876 at Little Bighorn in Montana.

1. practiced sharcropping; system of farming

2. worked under close supervision and under the threat of harsh punishment

Radical Republican

1. opposed Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction

2. believed that the Civil War had been fought over the moral issue of slavery.

3. Insisted that the main goal of Reconstruction should be a total restructuring of society to guarantee black people true equality.

1. those who farmed claims under the Homestead Act.

2. had a very rugged life; had to build home, lots of bugs, and falling farm prices.

1. Ratified in 1868

2. Stated that everyone in the United States was equal; demanded equality.

1. Ratified in March 1870

2. it stated that no citizen may be denied the right to vote because of race, color, or perveious conditions of servitude

1. to be charged with wrongdoing

2. Johson was almost the first president to be impeached but he escaped by one vote

1. the public property and services that a society uses

2. includes, roads, bridges, canals, railroads, and telegraph lines.

1. a new block of democratic voters.

2. blocked many federal Reconstruction polices and reversed many reforms of the Reconstruction legislatures.

1. made in March 1865

2. it was the first major federal relief agency in United States history.

3. lacked support in Congress

4. gave out clothes, medical supplies, and millions of meals to both black and white war refugees.

What is the purpose of the Fugitive Slave Act?

to not let slaves runaway from their owners

Why didnt the Radical Repubicans like Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan?