Vocabulary
The act of separating people based on race in daily life
What is Segregation?
Who was the President of the United States during the Civil War?
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This amendment officially abolished slavery in the entire United States
What is the Thirteenth (13th) Amendment?
The major that cause that kid to the Southern states to succeeding and the reason the civil war was fought
What is Slavery?
What was the main goal of the Freedmen's Bureau?
What is to assist freed slaves in the South?
What term refers to the system that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States?
What are Jim Crow laws?
The Black man who was seven-eighths white and purposefully challenged the Louisiana Separate Car Act by sitting in a whites-only train car.
Who is Homer Plessy?
This amendment's guarantee of "equal protection under the laws" was argued by Plessy's lawyers to have been violated by the Separate Car Act.
What is the Fourteenth (14th) Amendment?
The name of the south
The Confederacy
This demographic of people had the most value
African Americans ( former slaves )
This adjective describes a policy or belief that is intense, fundamental, or favors extreme change.
What is Radical?
The Southern Democrat who became president after Lincoln's assassination and tried to implement his own lenient Reconstruction plan
Who is Andrew Johnson
The Formal document that abolished slavery in the United States?
What is Emancipation Proclamation
What is the name of the agreement that was intended to help fix the tension prior to the civil war, it involved balance slave and free states?
What is the Missouri Compromise?
The violent, secret white supremacist organization that used terror to destroy Black political power
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
A system of agriculture that replaced slavery, where a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on their portion of land.
What is Sharecropping
A former slave who sued sued for his freedom in Missouri, arguing that he should be a free man because he had lived for years in areas where slavery was illegal
Who is Dred Scott?
The Supreme Court case in 1896 whose decision established the "separate but equal" doctrine, allowing Jim Crow segregation to flourish
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
The Supreme Court ruling that stated African Americans were not citizens and that Congress could not ban slavery in the territories. This case contributed to tension leading to the Civil war
What is Scott V. Sanford?
Why did the compromise of 1877 happen?
African American voters were being intimidated and threatened which caused the votes to be messed up.
What a past court ruling serves as for judges deciding future similar cases.
What is Precedent?
The President elected through the compromise of 1877
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes
The legal agreement in 1877 that resolved the disputed presidential election and resulted in the withdrawal of federal troops from the South.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
The year slavery ended nationwide
When is 1865?
The total number of states in the Union and the Confederate States combined was this number during the Reconstruction era
What is 37