Vocabulary
Laws & Amendments
Miscellaneous
Years/Dates
100

Formal changes to a document

What is an amendment?

100

Amendment that made slavery illegal

What is the 13th amendment?

100

During Reconstruction, the Southern states had to free all of their ________.

What are slaves?

100

The year the Civil War began.

What is 1861?

200

June 19th, the date celebrated as the anniversary of the Emancipation Day for slaves in Texas

What is Juneteenth? 

200

Amendment that allowed all MALE U.S. citizens the right to vote

What is the 15th amendment?


200

In the context of 1860 and southern states, what was secession?

 The voluntary withdrawal from the United States?

200

The year the Civil War ended.

What was 1865?

300

The federal government's plan to restore the South to the Union after the Civil War

What is Reconstruction?

300

Amendment that allowed all people born in the U.S. to be citizens

What is the 14th amendment?

300

What court did Homer Plessy appeal his case to? 

What is the Supreme Court? 

300

The starting year of the Reconstruction Era?

What is 1865?

400

Laws passed by the Southern governments that limited the rights of African Americans

What are Black Codes?

400

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?

400

Organization set up by the federal government to help newly freed slaves gain the rights of U.S. citizens (education, voting, food, shelter, etc.)

What is the Freedmen's Bureau?

400

The ending year of the Reconstruction Era

What is 1877?

500

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?

500

Laws that forcefully separated people of different races

Segregation/Jim Crow Laws

500

During Reconstruction, the Southern states had to take an oath of ______ to the U.S.

What is loyalty?

500

What year was Abraham Lincoln assassinated?

1865

600

This landmark court case reaffirmed the State of Louisiana's Separate Car Act of 1890. 

What is Plessy v. Ferguson?

600

What were the 2 types of laws that Southern States created to push back against the harsh conditions of Reconstruction?

What are Black Codes and Segregation/Jim Crow Laws?

600

During Reconstruction, the Southern states had to write new state ______. Hint: (related to laws and statutes). 

What are constitutions/ or new constitutions?

600

Who was impeached in 1868?

Who was Andrew Johnson? 

700

To formally charge the President with misconduct in office. 

What is to impeach

700

This Act, passed by the Radical Republicans in 1867, divided the former Confederacy into 5 military districts.

What was the Reconstruction Act of 1867? 

(Note this is the first of Congress's Reconstruction Acts).

700

What was the approximate total of the casualties on both sides during the Civil War? 

What was 600,000 

700

Free Parking 

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