Time & Place
What is an abolitionist?
Bonus: Name one!
A group or a person who fights against slavery
What is Reconstruction?
Rebuilding the south
What are the black codes?
Southern laws meant to try and control African Americans.
What does it mean to be impeached?
to sue the president.
What is Segregation?
Separation of races
What does the Emancipation Proclamation do?
Makes slavery illegal.
What does the freedmen's Bureau do?
Provides food, medicine, education, and clothes for recently freed African Americans.
What amendment must be passed for the South to rejoin the Union?
The 14th amendment.
Who gets the right to vote under the Reconstruction Acts?
African American MEN
What is the poll tax?
Bonus: how does it stop black people from voting?
Paying to vote.
What was the economy of the South surrounded around?
Agricultural economy
Which plan believed in Amnesty?
Bonus: what does amnesty mean?
Lincoln's plan
pardoning people
Under the 14th amendment, what can't be taken away?
African American citizenship.
What is the 15th amendment?
Can't deny the MALE vote based on race, color, or previous servitude
What is the literacy test?
Bonus: how does it stop black people from voting?
Have to read and write at a certain level to be able to vote.
Compare what life was like for black people in the North to the South.
North: unequal treatment
South: enslaved
Radical republicans believed who had to take an oath of loyalty?
A majority of white men.
What is protected under the 14th amendment when it comes to laws?
Due process, equal protection under the law.
What does the 15th amendment mean when it says you can't be denied the vote because of "previous servitude" ?
If you were enslaved before, you can't be denied the right to vote.
What is the Grandfather Clause?
Bonus: how does it stop black people from voting?
What helps keep slavery around in the South?
The demand for cotton.
What does the 13th amendment do?
Why does the south want to control African Americans?
They wanted to preserve slavery, even after it's made illegal.
What is the south split into until the pass the 14th amendment?
What is decided in the Supreme Court Case Plessy V. Ferguson?
Segregation is legal (Separate but equal)