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
Admitted Missouri to the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state, while banning slavery from the lands north of the 36º 30' parallel.
What is the Missouri Compromise?False
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)
African Americans having to use different water fountains than white people. Is this an example of a Jim Crow Law or a Black Code?
Jim Crow Law - This was segregation
This was the most important agricultural product during the civil war
This Civil War Battle that convinced the remaining Southern States to secede.
What is the Battle of Fort Sumtner?
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
What did the 13th Amendment State?
That slavery was abolished
Person deliberately working to free slaves.
Who is an Abolishionist?
Name three advantages the North had during the war
These were laws passed during Reconstruction to limit the freedoms of African Americans.
Black Codes
What did the 15 Amendment state?
It gave African Americans the right to vote
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?
What did the 14th Amendment state?
That every man born in the U.S. was a citizen (except Native Americans)
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.
What is the Dred Scott Case?
These were the main goals of Reconstruction
Protect the rights of freedmen and unify the country