Vocabulary
The south during the Civil War
What is Confederacy?
What is Our American Cousin?
bloodiest battle of the war
What is Gettysburg?
the president who tried to bury the Jim Crow Laws by signing the Civil Rights Act of 1965
Who is Lyndon Johnson?
Freedom of speech, free press, and freedom of religion
What is the 1st Amendment?
The process of being set free legally
What is emancipation?
What is the ten percent plan, or Lincoln's Plan
All that was lost was a horse in this battle
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
What is the 14th amendment?
The laws held by states and not by the federal
What are State's Rights?
Number of human casualties in Fort Sumter?
What is 0?
The place that Lee surrendered to Grant
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
The term during Reconstruction that referred to a white man imitating a black man
What is Blackface?
protects you from being held for committing a crime unless you have been indicted correctly by the police.
What is the 5th amendment?
An estate run by slave labor
What is a plantation?
What was the fraction of a salve in determining state's population?
What is 3/5ths
Battle fought on the Charleston harbor
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
The shorthand way of describing African Americans in the country at the time.
What is Jim Crow?
that basically says that any power that is not given to the federal government is given to the people or the states.
What is the 10th Amendment?
Laws designed to keep black people enslaved, even after the 13th amendment passed
What are the Jim Crow Laws?
Missouri entered as a slave state and Maine was a free state. What compromise is this?
The battle that took place near Manassas, Virginia
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
What is the 2nd amendment?