This secret organization began as an effort by southern white Democrats to regain control from Republicans.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
100
A tax placed on imported goods.
What is a tariff?
100
A network of people and places that sheltered slaves as they escaped the South seeking freedom in the North.
What is the Underground Railroad?
100
The amendment that outlawed slavery and involuntary servitude within the United States.
What is the 13th amendment?
100
These laws had the intent and the effect of restricting African Americans' freedom, and of compelling them to work in a labor economy based on low wages or debt.
What are the Black Codes?
200
To file charges to remove a politician out of office.
What is to impeach?
200
To illegally kill in a violent manner; usually by hanging.
What is lynching?
200
To declare a law is without force and not binding.
What is nullification?
200
An agency that issued food, clothing,fuel, and other supplies to freedmen and some needy whites.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
200
A brief speech made by President Lincoln at the dedication of the national cemetery at the Gettysburg battlefield.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
300
Amendment that protected citizen's right to vote irreardless of race,color, or previous condition of servitude.
What is the 15th amendment?
300
A frontier area belonging to the U.S but not yet organized as a state.
What is a territory?
300
A poor farmer that did not own land and had to live/work on the land of others for wages or a share of the crop they produced.
What is a tenant farmer?
300
Belief that American states have certain rights under the 10th amendment to the U.S constitution that the national gov. can't violate.
What is state's rights?
300
To be independent; subject to no higher authority or gov.
What is to be sovereign?
400
A system of tenant farming in which the tenant works someone else's land for a share of the crop.
What is sharecropping?
400
The action of southern states , in 1860 and 1861 , of withdrawing from the Union.
What is secession?
400
An amendment to the U.S. Constitution defining national citizenship and forbidding the states to restrict the basic rights of citizens or other persons.
What is the 14th amendment?
400
The period after the Civil War when the federal gov. took control of the former Confederate states in an attempt to change them before readmitting them to the Union.
What is The Reconstruction?
400
The document issued by Abraham Lincoln that stated that all slaves in the Confederacy were considered "forever free".
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
500
To set free, especially with respect to slaves.
What is to emancipate?
500
Occurring or existing before a particular war usually referring to the American Civil War.
What is an antebellum?
500
A person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction.
What is a carpetbagger?
500
An act or means of sealing off a place to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving.
What is a blockade?
500
These states included Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri, and West Virginia.