Civil War
This was the central cause of the American Civil War
Slavery
This group of Republicans pushed for strong protections for African Americans.
Who are the Radical Republicans?
These three Amendments are known as the Reconstruction Amendments
13th, 14th, 15th
The separation of black people and white people was called this
Segregation
As the U.S. added new land, this question caused major conflict between the North and South.
What is whether slavery would be allowed in new territories?
These were the names of the North and the South during the war
Union and Confederacy
He became president after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This Amendment granted citizenship to both men and women regardless of race.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This was a hate group that formed during Reconstruction that inflicted terror on African Americans
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
This 1820 compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
He was the Confederate General
Who is Robert E. Lee
Abolitionist and runaway slave who was an advisor to Abraham Lincoln during the war.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
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
This 1857 Supreme Court decision ruled that enslaved people were not citizens.
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
Abraham Lincoln was president during the Civil War and led this side.
What is the Union?
Federal troops were sent to the South during Reconstruction mainly to protect these.
What are African American civil rights (or voting rights)?
This Amendment gave Black men the right to vote
What is the 15th Amendment?
The Freedmens Bureau was successful in (2 things)
Establishing schools, and providing food and resources for newly freed blacks.
This event in 1860 led several Southern states to leave the Union.
What is the election of Abraham Lincoln?
This 1863 document declared enslaved people free in Confederate states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Who assassinated President Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
What year did Reconstruction end?
1877
established military rule in the former Confederate states, divided them into five military districts, and mandated new state constitutions that guaranteed voting rights for all men, regardless of race, and required ratification of the 14th Amendment
The Military Reconstruction Acts of 1867
Congress impeached Andrew Johnson mainly because he opposed these policies.
What is Reconstruction?