The Wilmot Proviso
Proposal to prohibit slavery in any land acquired in the Mexican War, but southern senators, led by John C. Calhoun of South Carolina, defeated the measure in 1846 and 1847. It Failed
The Compromise of 1850
Slavery becomes outlawed in Washington D.C., California is admitted as a free state, and Utah and New Mexico will determine whether slavery is allowed through popular sovereignty. Also, the Fugitive Slave Law is passed.
The Kansas Nebraska Act
It would create 2 new territories to allow the government to build a railroad. It split Nebraska into the territories of Nebraska and Kansas and allowed for popular sovereignty there
Bleeding Kansas
Was a sequence of violent events involving Free-States and pro-slavery "Border Ruffians" elementsmthat took place in Kansas Territory and the western frontier towns of the U.S. state of Missouri between roughly 1854 and 1858 attempting to influence whethe
The Dred Scott Decision
Dred Scott was a slave who had moved to Illinois and Wisconsin (free states) which his owner. When his owner died, lawyers argued before the Supreme Court that since Scott had lived in a free state, he was a free man. The Supreme Court argued that since S
John Brown
abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1858)
Black Codes
Southern laws designed to restrict the rights of the newly freed black slaves
Ku Klux Klan
a secret society of white Southerners in the United States, Organization formed by ex-Confederates in opposition to Reconstruction that terrorize African-Americans and their supporters. Resulted in the Force Acts, and it displayed the Southern feeling of
Johnson's impeachment
Andrew Johnson fired someone who was on tenure, only republican, democrats looking for reason to get rid of him. violation of the tenure of office act caused this
Freedmen's Bureau
Aided southerns who were homeless, educated blacks and established schools, helped settle arguments between whties and black
Reconstruction
the period after the Civil War in the United States when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union
13th amendment
1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this
14th amendment
1) Citizenship for African Americans, 2) Repeal of 3/5 Compromise, 3) Denial of former confederate officials from holding national or state office, 4) Repudiate (reject) confederate debts
15th amendment
citizens cannot be denied the right to vote because of race, color , or precious condition of servitude