People/Groups
President of the United States who saved the Union during the Civil War, delivered the Emancipation Proclamation, and was later assassinated.
President Abraham Lincoln
Abolished slavery and involuntary servitude In the U.S.
The 13th Amendment.
What was the 10% plan?
If 10% of Southern voters pledge an oath to the Union their state would be allowed to reenter the Union
The period after the Civil War in the United States when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union.
Reconstruction
What is sectionalism?
Northern immigrants who came South hoping to make money after the war.
Carpetbaggers
Gave right to vote to all African American males, and they cannot be denied the right to vote due to race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
The 15th Amendment.
Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves; passed by Southern states following the Civil War.
Black codes.
White Southern Republicans who cooperated with Reconstruction.
Define secession.
The action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body, especially a political state.
The first president to be impeached during Reconstruction.
President Andrew Johnson
Outlines citizenship and guarantees equal rights and protection under the law.
The 14th Amendment.
State laws in the South that limited rights of former slaves such as literacy tests, grandfather clauses, and poll taxes.
Jim Crow Laws.
Separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences.
Segregation
What was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War?
Antietam
Federal agency that provided economic, educational, legal, and social assistance for newly freed African Americans and poor white people in the South.
Freedmen's Bureau.
List 4 examples of rights that were weakened/taken away by Black codes.
Prohibited from owning property, owning guns, taking certain jobs, voting because of loopholes, being unemployed
A system used on southern farms after the Civil War, in which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops.
Sharecropping
The term used for the "right to vote."
Suffrage
What was Lincoln's main argument of his 2nd inaugural address?
Malice towards none, charity for all... forgiveness and peace...
After the Civil War, a group that believed the South should be harshly punished and believed Lincoln and Johnson were too compassionate (lenient) towards the South.
Radical Republicans
What supreme court case solidified racial segregation? Bonus 100 points if you can name the supreme court case that overturned it.
Plessy v Ferguson
Brown v Board of Education
What did Plessy v Ferguson rule? (specific phrasing)
Separate but Equal.
These are basic rights of the people that may not be taken away.
Unalienable rights.
Name the Union's military strategy to get the South to surrender.
The Anaconda Plan.