Civil War Era
The main cause of the Civil War
What was slavery?
13th Amendment:
Define Reconstruction:
What is the time period following the Civil War during which the US rebuilt itself socially, politically, and economically?
Describe sharecropping:
What is a near-slavery condition in which freedmen worked the land of their former enslavers for a share of the crop they grew.
Abraham Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction:
What is the 10% plan?
The name of people who wanted to end the institution of slavery.
What is "abolitionists"?
14th Amendment:
What is: granted citizenship to all people born in the US?
The political party responsible for the policies of Radical Reconstruction:
Who are the Radical Republicans?
2 examples of what might appear on a sharecropping contract:
What is:
- working 10 hours a day
- paying a share of crops for damage & medical expenses
- tending to the needs of the landowner in their home
The state laws that restricted the rights of freedmen in the South:
What were black codes?
The main reason the North and South had different views on slavery.
What were different economies?
(Industrial North vs. Southern Plantations)
15th Amendment:
What is: Gave all citizens the right to vote / Made restricting voting rights for citizens illegal?
The name of the Radical Reconstruction plan:
What was the 50% plan?
Way that freedmen were prevented from having voting power:
What are voting restrictions?
2 things that prevented African Americans from being truly free after the Civil War?
What are: voting restrictions, black codes, the KKK, sharecropping, & lynchings
The tactic Abraham Lincoln used to change the purpose of the Civil War.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
At the congressional debates about the 13th amendment...
The Republicans felt this way about the 13th Amendment:
And the Democrats felt this way about the amendment:
What is: the Republicans supported the amendment, the Democrats did NOT support the amendment
The definition of carpetbaggers:
What are northern whites who went south during Reconstruction to start businesses or pursue political office?
Group of people who intimidated freedmen to maintain white supremacy:
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
Abraham Lincoln's Vice President responsible for implementing Reconstruction policies:
Who was Andrew Johnson?
Name 2 (of 4 that we learned about) trends of the Civil War Era:
What are: Sectional Divisions, New Technology, Changing Role of Women, and Economic Strains
The fact that there were debates about the 13th Amendment after the Civil War says this about the impact of the War on socity:
What is the fact that the Civil War did not change societies feelings and ideas from before the war.
What are southern whites who opposed secession
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
Site of Abraham Lincoln's assassination:
Where is Ford's Theater?