Civil War
This was the central cause of the American Civil War
Slavery
True or False: The South won the war and slavery was abolished.
False: The North won the war and slavery was abolished.
These three Amendments are known as the Reconstruction Amendments
13th, 14th, 15th
The separation of black people and white people was called this
Segregation
An agricultural system where a landowner allows a tenant to farm their land in exchange for a share of the crops produced. Usually the tenant ends up in a cycle of debt.
Sharecropping
These were the names of the North and the South during the war
Union and Confederacy
Name 5 states that were part of the south during the war
Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, Virginia
This group helped African Americans get on their feet once they were no longer enslaved
Freedmen's Bureau
What was the significance of Appomattox Court House?
This is where Robert E. Lee surrendered (The Confederacy).
Roughly 40%
This was the president during the Civil War. He did not finish his second term.
President Lincoln
This document ended slavery in the Confederate States or rebel states, however, it did not address slavery in the border states.
The Emancipation Proclamation
Provide 2 examples of a Black Codes
Obey curfew, couldn't rent or own land, arrested for no job, couldn't serve on juries, could only work as servants or farmers for white families, couldn't testify in court
What did the 13th Amendment State?
That slavery was abolished
This is what someone is called who opposes slavery and wants to get rid of it.
Abolitionist
Name three advantages the North had during the war
More railroads, more troops/people, better technology, more factories, the telegraph, more industrialized, diverse economy
These were laws passed during Reconstruction to limit the freedoms of African Americans.
Black Codes which were a precursor for Jim Crow Laws
What did the 15th Amendment state?
The 15th Amendment says that the government cannot stop a citizen from voting based on their race, skin color, or whether they were previously enslaved.
This law canceled the Missouri Compromise and made the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, allowed the states to vote on whether slavery was legal or not. It also produced a violent uprising known as “Bleeding Kansas,” as proslavery and antislavery activists flooded into the territories to sway the vote.
What is the Kansas Nebraska Act?
On this day, Union Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, and read General Orders No. 3, telling the last enslaved people in the state that they were free. This is now a federal holiday.
Juneteenth
Who was leader of the Confederate Army?
General Robert E. Lee
Who assassinated President Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
This man became President after Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
Supreme Court ruling that declared African Americans were not citizens of the United States.
Dred Scott v. Sandford (1858)-- The Dred Scott Decision
This general became president after Johnson and saw the end of reconstruction.
President Grant