Vocab 1
Vocab 2
Reconstruction
Causes
Misc.
100
This law required people to serve in the war.
What is a draft?
100
This means to break away.
What is secede?
100
This was the first step to reconstruction.
What was ending slavery?
100
This is why did people in the South thought that slavery was acceptable.
What is because they needed help on their farms to make profits?
100
This was the government formed by the 7 seceding states.
What was the Confederacy?
200
This statement freed all African Americans in the South.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
200
These were states that remained loyal to the U.S. government.
What is the Union?
200
This was established to help the freedmen by building hospitals and schools for blacks in the South.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
200
How did slaves resist slavery? (list 3)
What is they learned to read, worked less, and escaped?
200
This person was the President during the Civil War.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
300
These were laws denying rights to African Americans during Reconstruction.
What were black codes?
300
This law said that an escaped slave had to be returned to his owner if caught.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
300
This person became the new president following Abe Lincoln's assassination.
Who is Vice President Andrew Johnson?
300
This compromise was made in order to have a balance between slave and free states.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
300
The 13th amendment stated this.
What is that slavery was outlawed?
400
This was a time after the war when the country was healing and rebuilding.
What is reconstruction?
400
This was an organized secret system set up to help enslaved people escape to the North.
What is the Underground Railroad?
400
Republicans didn't trust Andrew Johnson for these reasons.
What is because he was a Southerner and had been a Democrat before becoming Lincoln's Vice President. (must have at least one)
400
This was Abe Lincoln's reason for going to war.
What is preserving the Union or keeping the country together?
400
The 14th amendment stated this.
What is that all people would be granted citizenship even if they were formally slaves?
500
This speech inspired the Union to keep fighting and made it clear that a UNITED nation WITHOUT slavery was worth fighting for.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
500
This means separating blacks and whites.
What is segregation?
500
Even though there were successes brought by reconstruction, African Americans continued to be treated unfairly in these ways (name at least 2).
What is Jim Crow laws that enforced segregation, setting up voting polls far from African American communities, taxed African Americans at the polls, and burned down homes and schools.
500
This was the reason the South or Confederacy was fighting in the war.
What were states' rights?
500
The 15th amendment stated this.
What is that all men could vote regardless of their race?
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