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Why was the Kansas-Nebraska Act controversial? What was popular sovereignty?
Act formalized Popular Sovereignty: allowed white residents in states to decide for themselves whether to allow slavery
BUT, Missouri compromise previously BANNED slavery above in remainder of the Louisiana Territory and axt was repealed because kansas and nebtaska were above that line
RESULT: Violence between proslavery and antislavery activists (Bleeding Kansas)
What was the Dred Scott decision and how was it a cause of the Civil War?
- Scott sued because his master had taken him to live in Illinois and Wisconsin which had been banned of slavery
- Court ruled against it, said that all Black people are considered property
- Helped convince people that the gov. was in favor of slavery and not a democracy
Why was the election of Lincoln in 1860 a cause of the Civil War?
- won 40% of overall popular vote, including majorities in populous states, therefore winning electoral college
- led to many southern states seceding from the Union as none of them voted for him
- formed Confederate states of America
Why was the bombardment of Fort Sumpter a cause of the Civil War?
- Started when fort was bombarded although war was inevitable earlier
- It was a northern base in South Carolina, not of any strategic use ti the North but a symbol of the Union
True or false: The Civil War was undocumented.
FALSE. Civil War was the first major conflict to be documented by photography
People saw the horrors of war captured in pictures
Used to promote abolition and as propaganda for both northern and southern states. promote lincolns career. families bought pictures of lost loved ones
Who was the president during Reconstruction?
Andrew Johnson. đ©
What was lincolns post war idea vs Andrew johnson?
lincoln: facilitate reunion and reconciliation
johnson: south never should have suceded in the first place and black people should not be part of reconstruction
What was the Freedmans Bureau?
Raised money and helped build homes
Schools, jobs, skills training
Divided up abandoned confederate land for former slaves
True or false. Andrew johnson agreed with Freedmans bureaus efforts to give land to former slaves.
FALSE. He ordered all land be returned to the former owners --> south remained agricultural--> share cropping
What was sharecropping?
Replacement of slavery where land owner would provide some land for the sharecropper to farm and those crops would be "shared" with the landowner aka most of it given away
Not exactly slavery but there was a similar cycle of debt to land that the sharecropper didnt own
What did the Compromise of 1877 do?
Gave Rutherford B. Hayes presidency in exchange for the end of reconstruction
- Removal of fed soldiers from south signaled end of republicans commitment to protecting rights of african americans ending reconstruction
Why did Freedmans Bureau end?
Funding limitations: Northern states no longer wanted to pay taxes for the support of the Freedmans Bureau
Racist attitudes from South: KKK targeted its workers and supporters, president challenged its legitimacy sparking opposition in the south
What were Black codes?
Limited rights of Black people and what jobs they could hold/ability to leave jobs when hired
What was the grandfather clause?
indirect measure to disenfranchise black men. could only vote if his ancestor had voted before 1867 even though most of the ancestors during that time had been enslaved and ineligible to vote
Jim Crow Laws?
Legalized racial segregation, meant to marginalize black people by denying them from voting, hold jobs, educayion, other opporyunitues