Civil War
The Union or The North
Who won the Civil War? or Winners of the Civil War
the period after the American Civil War from 1865 to 1877.
What was Reconstruction ?
Abolished Slavery except as punishment for a crime
What is the 13th Amendment
Another term meaning "citizenship granted to all people born in the United States"
What is Birth Right Citizenship ?
The Franchise means
What is the Right to vote
Southerners who were Northern sympathizers
Scalawags
Northerners who went South after the civil war to gain economic benefits. Named after their luggage
What/Who were Carpet baggers
Share Cropping, Convict Lease System
What are new forms of Slavery
No one shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without this legal right.
What is Due Process or Day in Court ?
Yeah but not Women until 1919
Who was excluded from the 15th Amendment.
How many states needed to ratify the thirteenth Amendment in order for it to take effect?
What is 2/3rds
laws passed in the South just after the Civil War aimed at controlling freedmen and enabling plantation owners to exploit African American workers
What were Black Codes
These rights under the 14th amendment is one of the arguments used to help give Women the right to vote
What are the ' rights and privileges of citizenship" or "Equal protection under the law"
Race, color, and previous condition of servitude
What are things the right to vote cannot be denied because of?
True/False and Why: A private school that does not receive any public funding can decide that it does not want to admit any students of a certain race and/or gender and they would NOT be violating the 14th Amendment.
True because the 14th does not protect against discrimination in private dealings.