Civil War
Reconstruction Plans
Reconstruction
People & Laws
Civil War Vocab
100
This is the year the Civil War officially ended.
What is 1865?
100
This change to our nation's Constitution permanently outlawed slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment
100
education, food & medical, help finding work
What types of services did the Freedmen's Bureau provide to African Americans in the South?
100
Robert E. Lee
Who is the Confederate General?
100
The Supreme Court ruling that stated that African Americans were not citizens and couldnt sue in federal court.
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
200
The period of rebuilding the US (primarily the South) after the Civil War was called this.
What is Reconstruction
200
A plan for reconstructing those Confederate states already under Union control. This plan offered to pardon Confederates who took an oath to support the Union. When ten percent of a state's citizens, who were eligible to vote in 1860, gave an oath of allegiance and a state has abolished slavery, they could be readmitted to the Union.
What is Lincoln's 10% Plan?
200
This change to the Constitution protected African American's voting rights.
What is the 15th Amendment?
200
John Wilkes Booth
Who shot and killed Lincoln?
200
To formally withdraw.
What is the term "secede"?
300
The Union (North)
Which side won the war?
300
The Emancipation Proclamation
What is the name of document issued by Lincoln that freed the slaves in those areas rebelling against the Union?
300
This change to the Constitution freed the slaves in the ENTIRE United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
300
The name of the Civil War Campaign led by General Sherman, in which Union forces marched from Georgia through South Carolina destroying all available resources.
What is the March to Sea?
400
DE, MD, KY, MO
Which states were known as the "border states?"
400
Andrew Jackson
What President took over after Lincoln's assassination & was impeached by the Radical Republican Congress?
400
This amendment made African American's US citizens and revoked the Dred Scott Decision.
What is the 14th Amendment?
400
This law was declared unconstitutional because it violated the 15th Amendment to the Constitution, which protected African American's voting rights.
What is the Grandfather Clause?
400
The argument that state power was greater than federal power.
What is the term "states' rights"?
500
Union General
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
500
Under this plan for Reconstruction, no pardons would be available to high Confederate officials.
What is Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction Plan?
500
Laws that were enacted in the South after the Civil War that were intended to assure the continuance of white supremacy in the former Confederacy.
What are Black Codes?
500
These laws were enacted in the South after the Civil War and were intended to assure the Continuance of white supremacy in the former Confederacy.
What are Black Codes?
500
The term for Southerners who wished to remain in the Union.
What is a Unionist?
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