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readmission to the Union for former Rebel states when at least 10 percent of those who voted in 1860 took an oath of allegiance to the Union
The Fugitive Slave Act was the most ____________ proposal in the Compromise of 1850.Not only did it __________ the authority of slave catchers, it made attractive the _________ of free blacks in northern "free states" under the pretense that they were __________ slaves. The law forbade fugitives from receiving a _________ and compelled __________ to help locate and capture runaways.
Identify the outcomes of Congressional Reconstruction that gave birth to a second reconstruction as the civil rights movement in the twentieth century.
What is the following passage an excerpt from?"All freedmen, free negroes and mulattoes in this State, over the age of eighteen years, found on the second Monday in January, 1866, or thereafter, with no lawful employment or business, or found unlawfully assembling themselves together, either in the day or night time ... shall be deemed vagrants, and on conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not exceeding ... fifty dollars ... and imprisoned at the discretion of the court ... not exceeding ten days."
readmission to the Union following ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment by the southern states
Identify the five military districts governed by generals put in place by Congress after the defeat of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
What were the 4 major battles of the American revolution that were an American victory
According to the ____________, if the ____________ states had actually seceded and were conquered __________, then the __________ branch would be in charge of reconstructing the South.
racial , ethnic , and religious minorities from mainstream society both in public and private in the United States consists of the legal or socially enforced separation of However , in practice this continues , shaped by such spheres . From the late 1940s to the 1960s , a series of court cases and laws ended legal this . factors as the unequal provision of public services and employment .
so much so that some people say the Civil War really started As a result , there was quite a lot of violence in the state of . there in 1857. Many considered it bleeding
which upheld the separate - but - equal doctrine , was one of the 19th century's most important decisions about the meaning of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments . The ruling allowed southern states to legally segregate citizens by race and deny African Americans their rights
people of color . In 1910 , he helped found the NAACP , serving as director of publications and African nations , devoted his life to the struggle for equality for African Americans and all called the father of pan - Africanism for his work on behalf of the emerging research for the organization
Lincoln wins Election of 1860. The South ( led by SC ) was outraged that a president could be elected with zero Southern votes
Formally known as the Bureau of Refugees , Freedmen , and Abandoned Lands , the was a federal agency within the War Department that was charged with supervising the transition from slavery to freedom in the erstwhile Confederacy following the Civil War
Sharecropping was a system in which a farmer tended a portion of a planters land in return for a share of the crop .
The first continental congress: a meeting of leaders who were greatly troubled by the relationship between Great Britain and its colonies in AmericaThe second continental congress: they set of the continental army and wanted George Washington to lead the army
The first of three Reconstruction Amendments enacted in the years immediately following the Civil War , the Amendment officially prohibited slavery in the United States and its territories
is the mandatory induction of citizens into the armed forces of a nation . Also known as the draft , this was enacted to bolster long - term professional volunteers ' ranks with short - term forces during times of tension or war .
The took place during the American Civil War near the village of Sharpsburg , Maryland , on September 17 , 1862. With some brigades on each side suffering . losses of more than 50 % , It was the bloodiest battle of the entire war and resulted in a defeat for the Confederates .
The North's success in the Civil War was helped by the South's inability to