what is black codes
laws passed in 1865 and 1866 in the former Confederate states to limit the rights and freedoms of African Americans
what states where slave states
the southern states
what was the deadliest war faught o American soil
the civil war
who was the 16th president
Abraham Lincoln
what is Jim crow laws
laws enforcing segregation of blacks and whites in the South after the Civil War
what states where the free states
the northern states
bloodiest battle during civil war
gettysburg.
what is Reconstruction
Reconstruction
the period of time after the Civil War in which Southern states were rebuilt and brought back into the Union
what was the bloodiesyt bottle on American soil
battle of antidom
what is Freedmen’s Bureau
an agency established by Congress at the end of the Civil War to help and protect newly freed black Americans
what was the plan that the union used during the civil war
the anaconda plan
what is the thirteenth amendment
Thirteenth Amendment
a change to the Constitution, ratified in 1865, abolishing slavery in the United State