Civil War
What is loyalty to a certain region called?
Sectionalism
When did the Civil War take place?
1861-1865
This is a financial arrangement in which a tenant farmer pays for use of land with a portion of the crop raised on that land?
Sharecropping
Who is the vice president and successor of Abraham Lincoln?
Andrew Johnson
This gave full citizenship to all people born in the United States, giving equal protection of the laws?
Fourteenth Amendment
What was a person called who wanted to end slavery?
An abolitionist
What was the court ruling that declared that ________________ should not be given his freedom?
Dred Scott
President Lincoln issues a Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction apart of his _____________?
10 Percent Plan
This amendment gave all citizens the right to vote regardless of race, religion, etc?
15th amendment
This amendment prohibited slavery, and involuntary servitude?
13th amendment
When was Lincoln assasinated?
April 14, 1865
The place where General Robert E. Lee surrendered, thus ending the Civil War?
Appomattox Court House
Which group opposed Johnson's Reconstruction plan?
Congress
Laws passed in the South just after the Civil War, aimed at controlling freedmen and enabling plantation owners to exploit African American workers
Black Codes.
Who Opposed Johnson's Reconstruction plan?
Radical Republicans.
This person was the most successful Southern general in the Civil War.
Robert E. Lee
What was the speech called that Lincoln gave after the Civil War?
Lincoln gave a speech called the Gettysburg Address and he gave it to dedicate a cemetery for the Union soldiers who died in the Battle of Gettysburg.
Who were the 4 presidents during Reconstruction?
Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, and Rutherford B. Hayes
A White southerner who supported the republican party was known as a ___________?
Scalawag
What is the best sentence to describe the reconstruction era?
The act of reconstructing, rebuilding, or reassembling, the southern states.
Which abolitionist led an attack at Harpers Ferry, Virginia?
John Brown
What were the states called that were unsure which side to support during the Civil War?
Border states
What was the main failure of the reconstruction era?
African Americans were not protected.
_____________ were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation and discrimination against African Americans
Jim Crow laws
Rutherford B. Hayes becomes president in return federal troops are pulled out of the south this is apart of the?
Compromise of 1877