An article added to the constitution is called a what?
Amendment
100
To go against authority or control is called...
Rebelling
100
What word means in exchange for the right to work the land, poor whites and African Americans would be given a share of the crop they grew?
Sharecropping
200
What does emancipation mean?
The freeing of someone from slavery
200
What period of time included rebuilding after the Civil War, during which the southern states rejoined the union?
Reconstruction
200
What are carpetbaggers?
Northerners who moved South.
200
What did the South want from reconstruction?
NOTHING! They wanted everything to stay the same.
200
Who wanted to humiliate the Southern Elite and make them ask for presidential pardon?
Andrew Johnson
300
Who wanted to preserve the union and end the civil war quickly?
Abraham Lincoln
300
Who wanted to make sure the war wasn't fought in vein and that slaves stayed free?
Congress
300
Name two things that Freedmen wanted from reconstruction.
To vote and be elected, education and land rights, reunite with family, equal citizenship, network of churches, independence
300
What did the 13th amendment do?
Freed ALL slaves
300
What did the 14th amendment do?
Made African Americans citizens
400
What did the 15th amendment do?
Gave all men the right to vote and be elected.
400
What was the point of subversive groups?
To intimidate the freedmen
400
What group wanted whites to regain control of the government?
Ku Klux Klan
400
Name two things the Freedman's Bureau did for African Americans.
Helped freemen find jobs and protect their work, gave assistance to people in the south, provided clothing, medicine, education, and protection, started over 1,000 schools
400
Sharecropping became a negative way of business in the South, why?
The person doing the farming would go into debt and have to keep returning without pay.
500
Before the 13th amendment, something helped free the slaves in the North only. What was that called?
Emancipation Proclamation
500
Who started more than 1,000 schools in the South?
Freedman's Bureau
500
The Ku Klux Klan never used violence, only intimidation. True or False?