People
The first U.S. president to be assassinated
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Formal changes to a document
What is an amendment?
Amendment that made slavery illegal
What is the 13th amendment?
During the Civil War, the Southern states tried to create their own country and called themselves the _______________ States of America.
Confederate
The year the Civil War began.
What is 1861?
A system in which both African Americans and poor whites would rent land for cash from the former plantation owner and keep all of the crop.
What is sharecropping
The man who assassinated Abraham Lincoln
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
June 19th, the date celebrated as the anniversary of the Emancipation Day for slaves in Texas
What is Juneteenth?
Amendment that allowed all MALE U.S. citizens the right to vote
What is the 15th amendment?
Southern States wanted to _______ which caused the Civil War.
What is secede?
The year the Civil War ended.
What was 1865?
A tax paid before someone can vote.
Poll tax
Who was the Secretary of State that survived an assassination attempt?
Who was William Seward?
The federal government's plan to restore the South to the Union after the Civil War
What is Reconstruction?
Amendment that allowed all people born in the U.S. to be citizens
What is the 14th amendment?
This president tried to stop the 14th amendment. He was overruled (out voted) by Congress.
Andrew Johnson
How many more votes were need to impeach Andrew Johnson?
1
This allowed any male to vote as long as his ancestors had voted before 1866, excluding African Americans from voting.
Grandfather clause
The 17th President of the U.S. who agreed with Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction (no punishment for the South)
Who is President Andrew Johnson?
Laws passed by the Southern governments that limited the rights of African Americans
What are Black Codes?
Freedmen COULD NOT vote, be on a jury, have certain jobs and COULD be arrested if they did not have a job
What are Black Code Laws?
What is the day that celebrates the end of slavery, when slaves were freed in Texas weeks after the Civil War ended?
Juneteenth
How many people were killed in the Civil War?
Over 600,000
Sharecropping was a system designed to keep farmers in _____ for generations.
debt
Which president signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
Andrew Johnson
Abraham Lincoln
Lyndon B Johnson
Ulysses S Grant
Lyndon B Johnson
A person who works on a farm (usually in the south) but does not own it and has to pay rent in the form of crops. Economic slavery.
Who is a sharecropper?
To formally charge the President with misconduct in office.
What is to impeach
During Reconstruction, the Southern states had to take an oath of ______ to the U.S.
What is loyalty?
How many African Americans were now free after the Civil War?
Over 4 million
This law removed poll taxes, literacy tests, and other measures that prevented African Americans from voting.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965