AMENDMENTS
PEOPLE
Vocabulary
100
ENDED SLAVERY
What is 13 AMENDMENT
100
HE WAS ASSASSINATED IN 1865
WhO WAS ABRAHAM LINCOLN?
100
Newly freed slaves
What is freedmen
200
RIGHT TO VOTE FOR ALL CITIZENS. CANNOT BE DISCRIMINATED BASED ON RACE
What is 15 AMENDMENT
200
THIS PERSON SHOT AND KILLED ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Who was John Wilkes Booth?
200
A moment of important change
What is Turning Point?
300
RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS
What is 2ND AMENDMENT
300
This person became president after Abraham Lincoln was killed
Who was Andrew Johnson?
300
The period from 1865-1877, the goal was to rebuild the south and readmit southern states back into the union
What is Reconstruction?
400
ALL CITIZENS ARE EQUAL BEFORE THE LAW
What is 14TH AMENDMENT
400
This group who dressed in hooded robes, armed with guns worked mainly at night and threatened African Americans by beating and even murdering many.
Who was the KKK
400
State laws to control former slaves. They denied freedmen the right to vote and limited the work they could do.
What is Black Codes
500
THE 13, 14, AND 15 AMENDMENT ARE CALLED THE_______AMENDMENTS BECAUSE THEY HELP TO PROTECT ALL PEOPLE
What is CIVIL RIGHTS AMENDMENTS
500
This African American man was arrested for sitting in a white only railroad car.
Who was Homer Plessy?
500
These laws created segregation between whites and blacks in public places such as schools, tranportation, restaurants and drinking fountains
What is Jim Crow Laws?
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