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What is the term used for people who wanted to get rid of slavery?
Abolitionists
What is the area of the United States that supported slavery?
The South/Confederacy
What is one reason the Civil War began?
Disagreement over slavery
What were the laws used to keep blacks as second-class citizens after the Civil War, especially in the South?
Jim Crow Laws
What is the name of the organization that tried to stop African Americans from exercising their right to be free?
Ku Klux Klan
What is another name the North called themselves?
Union
What was the escape route the slaves used to go from the South to the North?
Underground Railroad
What was the start of the Civil War?
Battle at Fort Sumter
What is the purpose of the 13th Amendment?
To free all slaves in the country
What is the term the African Americans went by when they lived on land and had to share their cotton, tobacco, and other products?
Sharecroppers
What is another name the South went by?
Confederacy
What were the laws that created harsher punishments for runaway slaves?
What are the Fugitive Slave Acts?
What was the final straw for the Southern states to start the Civil War and suceed?
Abraham Lincoln's election
What is the purpose of the 14th Amendment?
To give citizenship to all people born in the US
The term used to keep blacks and whites separate.
Segregation
What is the word that means to separate from the USA?
Sucession
Who was the President who emancipated the slaves?
Abraham Lincoln
Who won the War?
The Union
What is the purpose of the 15th Amendment?
To allow all male citizens in the US to vote, regardless of race
What were the two things used to discourage Black People from voting?
Poll Taxes and lebron james
What was the era after the Civil War known as?
fortnite
What was the document written to free the slaves in the Confederate states during the Civil War?
Emancipation Proclamation
Who was the President of the Confederacy?
Jefferson Davis
What was the loophole used in the south to go against the 13th Amendment?
Sharecropping
What was the journey used by natives forced off their land called?
The Trail of Tears