Amendments
This amendment grants the Freedom of Speech, Religion, Press, Assembly, and Petition
1st Amendment
What was the BIG Problem in the 1800s?
Slavery
The first major battle of the Civil War
Battle of Bull Run
The general for the North in the Civil War
General Ulysses S. Grant
Nickname for a northerner who went to the South after the Civil War, but had no interest in government.
Carpetbagger
Bill of Rights
What was the compromise for the need of balanced free states and slave states
Missouri Compromise
This document by Lincoln establishes that all slaves are free.
Emancipation Proclamation
The general for the South in the Civil War
General Robert E. Lee
Nickname for white southerners who supported the Republicans during the Reconstruction.
Scalawags
This amendment freed enslaved people. *The confederate states had to ratify this amendment in order to be reinstated into the Union
13th Amendment
States that were anti-slavery were called the _____.
The book that told the world about the treatment enslaved people were getting in the South. It told the detailed truth!
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Our 16th President
Abraham Lincoln
This group grew to terrorize African-Americans because of their support for Republican Governments, by lynchings, burning down houses, churches, and schools.
Ku Klux Klan a.k.a KKK
This amendment means that all men are able to vote
15th Amendment
States that were proslavery were called _________ states.
Confederate states.
This speech by Abraham Lincoln was made to honor the soldiers who lost their lives fighting for the Civil War in the name of Liberation and Human Equality
Gettysburg Address
The African American man who was enslaved sued for his freedom. The court case deemed it void as African Americans were not "citizens".
Dred Scott
This compromise ended the Reconstruction period, allowing Southern states to discriminate against freedman.
Compromise of 1877
This amendment gives all people who are born or naturalized in the United States or US Territories are US citizens
14th Amendment
Tactic that the Union used to try and win the Civil War
Anaconda Plan (Blockade Runners)
Clara Barton founded this organization.
Red Cross
A runaway slave who protested against states having slavery.
Fredrick Douglas
What term was phrased for southern states beginning to pass laws to limit the rights of the newly freed African-Americans. They had to get work permits and go under apprenticeships with White Landowners.
Black Codes