Amendments
This amendment ended slavery
What is the 13th Amendment?
This man was president at the end of the Civil War.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
The reason Lincoln's plan for a quick and peaceful reunion of the North and South did not happen.
What is because Lincoln was killed?
Changes to the U.S Constitution
What are amendments?
This Virginia city was burned in 1865 and needed to be rebuilt.
What is Richmond?
This amendment made all people born in the United States citizens.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This man became president when Abraham Lincoln was killed.
Who was Andrew Johnson?
This was established prior to the end of the Civil War to provide work, school and shelter to freed African Americans.
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
The period following the Civil War in which Congress passed laws designed to rebuild the country and bring the Southern states back into the Union
What was Reconstruction?
This no longer had any \value because the south lost the war.
What is Confederate money?
This amendment said that the right to vote could not be denied based on race or religion.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This man was one of America's first great Black thinkers, writers, speakers and fighters for equal treatment of African Americans.
Who is Frederick Douglass
These are laws passed by southern states that tried to limit African American rights after Reconstruction ended by using poll taxes and voter tests.
What were Jim Crow laws?
Treating people unfairly due to race or religion.
What is discrimination?
Number of slaves freed after the war, many of whom were jobless and homeless.
What is 4 million?
The month and year that the 13th amendment was ratified.
When was December, 1865?
These are laws passed in Southern states that restricted travel and other activities of freed slaves during Reconstruction.
What were Black Codes?
This is a financial arrangement in which a tenant farmer pays for use of land with a portion of the crop raised on that land.
What is sharecropping?
Ruined farms led to this problem for many people.
What is food shortage and hunger?
True or False? The three constitutional amendments put in place after the Civil War eliminated all racism and discrimination against African Americans and Native Americans?
What is false?
Traveling show character who was a white man, dressed as a black man, that danced and told jokes.
Who was Jim Crow?
The year Virginia passed the 14th Amendment and was admitted back into the Union (United States).
When was 1870?
A separation for services and facilities by race or religion.
What is segregation?
One of the most valuable resources the U.S. and Virginia lost in the war.
Who are the young men who were killed and injured?