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| Constitutional guarantee that no one can be held in prison without charges being filed |
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- Lincoln's proposal to admitting states back into the Union
- Once 10% of a states' voters took loyalty to Union, the state can set up a new government
- They may have representation in Congress if the Constitution
- Abolished slavery
- Provided education for African Americans |
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| 1854 law that divided Nebraska Territory, each area used popular sovereignty to decide if it would be slave or free |
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Located in Manassas, Virginia
Confederates led by General "Stonewall" Jackson
Early battle that showed what modern warfare can do as far as damage and casualties
Confederate Victory |
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Book by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Describes horrors of slavery
Lincoln described her as the little woman who started the big war |
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Union: Ulysses S. Grant
Confederate: Robert E. Lee |
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| If you found an escaped slave, you have to return him/her to their rightful owner |
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| Emancipation Proclamation |
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| Military decree freeing slaves in rebelling territory |
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Single most bloody day of the Civil War
More than 23,000 dead or wounded
Union victory
Lincoln waited for this win to move forward with the Emancipation Proclamation |
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Officially ends Reconstruction
Provisions
- Hayes becomes president
- Union military must leave the South
- Southerner will receive cabinet position
- South receives funding for railroad construction |
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California enters as a free state
Popular sovereignty will decide if slavery will exist in territories won from Mexico
North will enact strict Fugitive Slave Laws |
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Declares slaves to be property and have no rights to Constitution
Declares Missouri Compromise unconstitutional |
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| Site where General Lee officially surrenders to Grant |
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Those in Congress who wanted full citizenship rights to African Americans
Believed Confederates committed crimes and should be punished |
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Located above waters of Mississippi River
Intricate Union victory to maintain control of trade and supply lines |
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Turning point of Civil War
Three day battle leading to Union victory
Declared national cemetery
Gettysburg Address delivered by Lincoln; declares the fight to uphold the natural rights found in the Declaration of Independence |
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| People from the North who moved South to help African Americans after the Civil War |
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Most common form of work for African Americans after the Civil War
Where landowner chose the crop and provided workers a place to live, seeds, and tools
Landowner receives portion of crop
Leads to continuous cycle of debt |
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State laws that limited the rights of African Americans to keep them from owning land
Limited their occupations as well |
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Charles Sumner makes a speech called "Crime Against Kansas" insulting the South
Preston Brooks beats Sumner with cane
Shows tension and short term solutions for slavery not working |
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Democrats split votes between Breckenridge and Douglas
Lincoln only Republican
John Bell nominated by Know-Nothings
Lincoln wins with no support from Sout |
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