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
While Black Codes were local regulations passed right after the Civil War to restrict African American freedoms, these late-1800s laws enforced total racial segregation across public places like schools and hotels
What are Jim Crow Laws
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
This was a hate group that formed during Reconstruction that inflicted terror on African Americans
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
Southern states targeted freedmen and tried to limit this key right granted to them by the 15th Amendment.
The right to vote
This was the most important agricultural product during the civil war
Protect the rights of freedmen and unify the country
Name 2 ways the KKK terrorized African Americans
Robbing, Whipping, Killing without reason, forcing to bathe in freezing rivers, kidnapping, lynching, intimidating
What did the 13th Amendment State?
That slavery was abolished
Name 2 things African Americans were provided by a particular group to help them get back on their feet
Food, clothing, medical care
Name three advantages the North had during the war
These were laws passed during Reconstruction to limit the freedoms of African Americans.
Black Codes
Provide 2 examples of a Black Code
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
To trap formerly enslaved people in a cycle of debt and force them to remain on white-owned land, Southern planters developed this agricultural system to replace slave labor.
What is sharecropping
These two voting barriers in the South forced people to pay a fee or pass a reading exam just to vote, keeping many Black citizens from casting a ballot.
Poll Taxes and Literacy Tests
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
To make sure poor or uneducated white voters didn't lose their voting rights from literacy tests, Southern states added this rule based on whether a person's family could vote before the Civil War.
What is the Grandfather Clause
The passage of the 15th Amendment led directly to what historic breakthrough in Washington D.C.?
Who were the first African American members of Congress?