Laws and Amendments
Reinforced Segregation
What are Jim Crow laws?
An organized, secret system to help enslaved African Americans escape, mostly to the North and Canada.
What is the Underground railroad?
Who is Jefferson Davis
First battle of Civil War.
Where is Fort Sumter, South Carolina?
It abolished slavery
What is the 13th Amendment?
What are factories?
Most famous underground railroad conductor
Who is Harriet Tubman
Famous Speech by President Lincoln
What is the Gettysburg Address?
Fired the first shots of the Civil War.
Who are the confederates?
It guaranteed equality under the law for all citizens and it gave Congress the power to enforce this guarantee
What is the 14th Amendment?
The economy in the South was based on
What is agriculture?
The Southern states thought this person would end slavery if elected President.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Assassinated President Lincoln.
What is the Battle at Gettysburg?
It gave all male citizens the right to vote regardless of race.
What is the 15th amendment?
Missouri joined the Union as a slave state and Maine joined the Union as a free state
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Charging a poll tax, requiring a reading test, and using the "Grandfather Clause" kept these people from voting.
Who are African Americans?
Vice President who became President after Lincoln was assassinated.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
Line that divided free and slave states.
What is the Mason-Dixon Line?
To satisfy the North, California was admitted as a free state. To satisfy the South, the North agreed to ...
What is the Fugitive Slave Law
The Fugitive Slave law said that escaped enslaved African Americans must be returned to owners, even if they had reached
What is a free state?
First state to secede from the Union.
What is South Carolina?
Who is Clara Barton?
National Holiday created to honor our fallen soldiers.
What is Memorial Day?