a group of men who are anti-black, anti-Catholic and anti-Semitic.and also was a secret group in the southern U.S
What is the Klu Klux Klan?
100
The period after the Civil War in which the states formerly part of the Confederacy were brought back into the United States. the South was divided into military districts for the supervision of elections to set up new state governments.
What is Reconstruction?
100
any of the slave states that bordered the northern free states during the US Civil War.
What is Border states?
100
a Northerner in the South after the American Civil War usually seeking private gain under the reconstruction governments.
What is a Carpetbagger?
100
a naval strategy by the United States to prevent the Confederacy from trading.
What is Blockade?
200
People who believed as if slavery should be banned. A person who was opposed to slavery.
What is abolitionists?
200
Someone who would farm land that belonged to a landowner. Family would plow, plant, weed, and harvest the land. However, they would only keep a small share of the crop, while the landowner would get the rest.
What is Sharecropper?
200
States under the confederate ruling. All of the enslaved states.
What is confederacy?
200
to free from restraint, control, or the power of another
What is emancipation?
200
An agreement made within an argument.
What is Compromise?
300
an executive order issued on January 1, 1863, by President Lincoln freeing slaves in all portions of the United States not then under Union control (that is, within the Confederacy).
What is Emancipation proclamation?
300
used to restrict trade, as they increase the price of imported goods and services, making them more expensive to consumers.
What is Tariff?
300
a network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century enslaved people of African descent in the United States in efforts to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause.
What is underground railroad?
300
a legal theory that a state has the right to nullify, or invalidate, any federal law which that state has deemed unconstitutional.
What is Nullification?
300
known collectively as the Civil War Amendments, were designed to ensure equality for recently emancipated slaves
What is 13-15 amendment?
400
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 is Black Codes?
400
a person who farms the land of another and pays rent with cash or with a portion of the produce.
What is Tenant Farmer?
400
a U.S. federal government agency established in 1865 to aid freedmen (freed slaves) in the South during the Reconstruction era of the United States, which attempted to change society in the former Confederacy.
What is Freedmen bureaus?
400
The withdrawal from the United States of eleven southern states in 1860 and 1861.
What is Secession?
400
to bring an accusation against.
What is impeach?
500
to put to death, especially by hanging, by mob action and without legal authority.
What is lynching?
500
an area of land under the jurisdiction of a ruler or state.
What is Territory?
500
a legal theory that a state has the right to nullify, or invalidate, any federal law which that state has deemed unconstitutional. occurring or existing before a particular war, especially the American Civil War.
What is antebellum?
500
having supreme power or authority.
What is Sovereign?
500
Rights guaranteed to the states under the principle of federalism.