Vocabulary
Civil Rights
Rights for everyone, no matter their skin color.
Who was the president during the Civil War?
Abraham Lincoln
When did Reconstruction end?
1877
Who won the Battle of Gettysburg?
The Union
What were the two groups that couldn't vote, even at the end of Reconstruction?
Native Americans, and women.
14th Amendment
Established in 1868, it started Birthright Citizenship in the USA.
Who won the election of 1868
Ulysses S. Grant
Who used legal methods to remove African American's voting rights?
Southern Democrats
Who was the general at the end of the Civil War?
Ulysses S. Grant
What ended in 1877
Reconstruction
Black Codes
were a law that passed in Southern States to limit rights of African Americans without breaking the constitutions rules.
Who made this game
Jocelyn and Avery
What Amendment added to the Constitution abolished slavery?
13th Amendment
Where were most of the Battles in the Civil War?
Virginia
What was the group that threatened and harmed African Americans into voting Democrat?
Klu Klux Klan
Jim Crow Laws
Racist laws that segregated people of color from white people, mostly in the Southern States.
Who was the President at the end of Reconstruction?
Rutherford B. Hayes
What was step 1 of the Anaconda Plan?
To block the Southern Ports
What was the opening Battle of the Civil War?
Fort Sumter
What started in 1865
a new year
Freedmen's Bureau
a U.S. government assosciation designed to aid formerly enslaved people and white refugees in the South during Reconstruction, but it was abolished in 1872
What year was Abraham Lincoln killed?
1865
What was step 3 of the Anaconda plan?
the capture of the Confederate capital, Richmond, Virginia, to destroy the rebel government and effectively end the war
What was considered "the bloodiest day" of the civil war?
the Battle of antietam.
What year was the Freedman's Bureau established?
1865