Big Ideas
The government of the 23 Northern States of the United States during the Civil War
What is the Union?
An amendment to the US Constitution, ratified in 1865, that ended slavery throughout the country
What is the 13th Amendment>
A system of farming in which a farmers works land for an owner and receives a share of the crop
What is Sharecropping?
The government of the 11 Southern States that seceded during the Civil War
What is the Confederacy?
An amendment to the US Constitution, ratified in 1868, that defined citizenship and extended US citizenship to formerly enslaved persons. It also prevented states from restricting the basic rights of citizens or other persons.
What is the 14th Amendment?
A tax a person must pay in order to vote
What is a Poll Tax?
to bring to an end; to do away with
What is to Abolish?
An amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1870, that prohibited the restriction of voting rights “on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”
What is the 15th Amendment?
A method used to prevent people from voting by requiring them to read and write at a certain level
What are Literacy Tests?
to take away a legal right, especially the right to vote
What is to Disenfranchise?
Laws passed in the South after the Civil War aimed at controlling freed men and women, allowing plantation owners to take advantage of African American workers
A provision allowing people to vote if their fathers or grandfathers had voted before Reconstruction began
What are Grandfather Clauses?
The time period after the Civil War of rebuilding the South and readmitting the Confederate States into the Union
What is Reconstruction?
A collection of State and Local laws that legalized segregation
What are Jim Crow laws?
The separation or isolation of a race, class, or groups; separation of one group from another
What is Segregation?