Vocab
A period in U.S. history following the Civil War, characterized by efforts to address the legal, social, and political challenges of emancipation and the reintegration of the former Confederate states into the Union.
What is Reconstruction?
This U.S. president led the nation during the Civil War and issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This agency was created to help formerly enslaved people adjust to freedom by providing food, education, and medical care
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
Women played an important role in the war by doing this kind of essential work for soldiers
What is nursing?
This 1865 amendment officially abolished slavery throughout the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
established in 1866, a secret, White supremacist terrorist group that resisted Reconstruction by harassing, threatening, and using violence against Black people
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This president took office after Lincoln’s assassination and clashed with Congress over Reconstruction policies, leading to his impeachment.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
These laws were passed in Southern states after the Civil War to restrict the rights of African Americans.
What are Black Codes?
This 1854 law allowed settlers to decide on slavery for themselves, leading to violence in Kansas
What is the Kansa Nebraska Act
After gaining freedom, many African Americans prioritized this as the key to independence and progress.
What is education?
an edict issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, to free people enslaved in the Confederate states
What is the Emancipation Proclamation
This Union general later became president and worked to enforce Reconstruction laws in the South.
Who is Ulysees S. Grant?
This system kept many freedmen and poor whites in a cycle of debt by forcing them to farm land owned by others in exchange for a share of the crops
What is Sharecropping?
Southern states began to do this after Lincoln’s election in 1860
What is Secede?
The withdrawal of federal troops in 1877 allowed white supremacist Redeemers to undo much of the progress African Americans and signaled what?
What is the end of Reconstruction?
in the Civil War, the first entirely African American regiment of the Union Army
What is the 54th Regiment?
This former enslaved man became a leading abolitionist, writer, and advisor to President Lincoln
Who is Fredrick Douglass?
This president’s lenient Reconstruction plan allowed many former Confederate leaders to return to power
Who is Andrew Johnson?
At the start of the Civil War, this side had more factories, railroads, and people giving it a major advantage
What is the Union (or the North)?
What 4 roles did African American Women play in the Civil War?
What are spies,nurses,laborers, and teachers?
a political practice, common in the United States before the Civil War, in which the people living in a newly organized territory had the right to vote on whether to allow slavery in the territory
What is Popular Sovereignty?
This actor and Confederate sympathizer assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre in 1865
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
After Reconstruction, this group of white Southern Democrats claimed they were “saving” the South from Republican rule.
Who were the Redeemers?
The Missouri Compromise allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state and this state as a free state.
What is Maine?
This amendment was later added to the Constitution to protect the rights guaranteed by the Civil Rights Act of 1866.
What is the 14th Amendment?