Chapter 9: Toward the Civil War and Reconstruction (1844–1877)

________ tried to modernize the southern economy, but lagged behind in industrialization.

With Lincoln's assassination, ________ assumed the presidency and developed the Reconstruction Plan which required a loyalty oath but barred many former Confederate elite from taking it.

________: Congressional bill to prohibit extension of slavery in territories gained from Mexico.

________ was vague and different interpretations by Northerners and Southerners.

________ made it easier to retrieve escaped enslaved people, but required cooperation from citizens of free states and seen as immoral.

________ founded Republican Party of South Carolina and served in U.S. House of Representatives in the 1880s.

________ argued for gradual emancipation, compensation to slaveholders, and colonization of freed enslaved people.

Sharecropping existed until ________, included more whites than Blacks.

________) questioned Polk's claim of Mexican first fire.

________ and Blanche K. Bruce became first Black senators in 1870 and 1875.

________ assassinated Lincoln five days later.

Lincoln issued the ________ in September 1862 after the Union victory at Antietam.

________: saw future where slavery was confined to southeast quarter and outvoted by free- soil advocates.

________ refers to the period of 1865- 1877 and the process of readmitting southern states, rebuilding physical damage, and integrating newly freed Blacks into society.

The 1858 ________ race between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas was nationally watched, with Lincoln delivering his "House Divided "speech and Douglas damaging his political career with his ambiguous stance on popular sovereignty.

The ________ impacted not only the battlefields, but also the political, economic, and social realms.

Slavery was the ________, but not the only or explicitly stated reason for the Civil War.

Compromise of 1877 was reached to resolve the election, ________ won and ended military reconstruction, federal troops pulled out of Southern states.

The 1860 ________ split between Northern Democrats supporting Douglas and Southerners supporting Breckinridge.

________ was US president from 1857- 1861 and worked to maintain the status quo by enforcing the Fugitive Slave Act and opposing abolitionist activism.

________: war necessary to preserve Union.

________ took control of southern economy and imposed taxes.

________: successful for American forces, resulted in Mexican Cession (Southwest land) for $ 15 million.

________ supported complete emancipation and the Thirteenth Amendment before his reelection campaign.

The ________ stated that the government would liberate all slaves in states "in rebellion "on January 1, 1863.

Copperheads: accused ________ of national social revolution.

Congressional bill to prohibit extension of slavery in territories gained from Mexico

successful for American forces, resulted in Mexican Cession (Southwest land) for $15 million

southern regions of modern Arizona and New Mexico for transcontinental railroad

Salmon P. Chase

accused Lincoln of national social revolu