Vocab
What is a slave state?
A state WITH slavery.
Who was the President of the Union?
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address after what battle?
The Battle of Gettysburg
What are the 3 reconstruction amendments? (must name all 3 for points)
13,14,15
True or False: Black Codes DID NOT violate peoples' Constitutional rights
False
What is a free state?
A state WITHOUT slavery
Who was the president of the Confederacy?
Jefferson Davis
What was the FIRST battle of the Civil War?
The Battle of Fort Sumter
What organization was created to help freed slaves?
The Freedman's Bureau
Why did southern states create literacy tests and poll taxes?
So black people could not vote
What is an abolitionist?
Who won the Civil War?
The Union (North)
What was the LAST battle of the Civil War?
The Battle of Appomattox Court House
What did the 15th Amendment do?
Gave black MEN the right to vote
What were Jim Crow Laws?
Laws of racial segregation
What is the Confederate States of America (Confederacy)?
Southern states that seceded
What was the main cause of the Civil War?
Slavery
What important river did the UNION have control of?
The Mississippi River
What did the 13th amendment do?
Abolished (got rid of) slavery
What vigilante justice group was created during Reconstruction?
The Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
What does it mean to secede? (Be specific)
To leave the Union
What were boarder states?
States in the Union that had Slavery
Name ONE of the Military generals we talked about. (Confederacy or Union)
Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, William Tecumseh Sherman
How many African Americans served in congress during Reconstruction?
17
What system was created that was called "slavery by another name"
Sharecropping