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The main Union general in the Civil War who later on became President during Reconstruction
Who was Ulysses S. Grant
The type of farming that leads to a cycle of poverty
What is sharecropping
The people that worked to get slavery ended in this country
What are abolitionists?
First battle of the Civil War
What is Fort Sumter
These 3 words make the Reconstruction amendments easy to remember.
What are FREE, CITIZEN, and VOTE?
Winner of the 1860 election, and caused the Southern States to secede.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
A person that moved to the South from the North during Reconstruction
What is a carpetbagger
This invention made cotton production spread all over the South
What is the cotton gin
Battle that cut the Confederacy in two and captured the Mississippi River.
What is the Battle of Vicksburg
This organization set up schools and helped former slaves in the South.
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
This slave took his case to the Supreme Court.
Who was Dred Scott?
Amendment that granted citizenship to ex-slaves
What is the 14th
Belief that a state has powers reserved to it, by using the 10th Amendment
What is states rights?
Jefferson Davis had Robert E Lee as his leader and Abraham Lincoln had_____.
What is Ulysses S. Grant?
These were laws restricting African-Americans were made by Southern states during Reconstruction.
What are Black Codes?
Confederate General that surrendered at Appomattox to end the Civil War
Who was Robert E. Lee
A person from the South that worked with the Republican carpetbaggers
What is a scalawag?
Law made it possible to kidnap and return slaves that had runaway to the North.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act
Official name of the order that freed the slaves in states at war with the United States during the Civil War
What is the emancipation proclamation?
This side won the war.
Who is the Union?
First African American elected to the US Senate
Who was Hiram Revels
The types of laws designed to limit the freedom and rights of former slaves
What are the black codes?
Book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe about the evils of slavery
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin
Philip Bazaar and William Carney won this award for valor or bravery during the Civil War.
This was the issue that faced new states as they were added to the country in the mid 1800's.
What is whether or not to allow slavery?