Civil War
The states that seceded from the Union formed this new nation.
What was the Confederate States of America?
This document freed enslaved people in Confederate states, shifting the war’s focus to ending slavery.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
This term refers to the rebuilding of the South and the reintegrating of Southern states after the Civil War.
What was Reconstruction?
These laws were designed to restrict the rights of newly freed African Americans in the South.
What were the Black Codes?
This was a fee required to vote, often used to prevent African Americans from voting.
What was a poll tax?
This term means the act of withdrawing from a nation or political union.
What is secession?
This speech by Lincoln expressed the war as a test of democracy and equality.
What was the Gettysburg Address?
This amendment abolished slavery.
What was the 13th Amendment?
The separation of groups based on law or government policy, which was enforced through legislation and regulations such as the Jim Crow laws in the American South
What is De Jure segregation?
This test required voters to read and interpret difficult passages to register to vote.
What was a literacy test?
This 1863 battle was a major turning point of the Civil War and ended Lee’s invasion of the North.
What was the Battle of Gettysburg?
Lincoln’s main goal throughout the war was to achieve this.
What was preserving the Union?
This amendment granted citizenship and equal protection under the law.
What was the 14th Amendment?
This 1896 Supreme Court decision established the doctrine of “separate but equal.”
What was Plessy v. Ferguson?
This secret organization used terror and violence to prevent African Americans from exercising their rights.
What was the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
This final battle site in 1865 marked the Confederate surrender to the Union.
What was Appomattox Court House?
Lincoln and Stephen Douglas differed in that Douglas supported popular sovereignty while Lincoln opposed the spread of this institution.
What was slavery?
This amendment gave African American men the right to vote.
What was the 15th Amendment?
These laws enforced racial segregation in all public facilities in the South.
What were Jim Crow laws?
This clause allowed people to vote only if their ancestors had voted before the Civil War.
What was the grandfather clause?
The capture of this city allowed General Sherman to begin his “March to the Sea.”
What was Atlanta?
This political party opposed the expansion of slavery and supported free labor in the territories.
What was the Republican Party?
This government agency helped freed slaves by providing education, food, and legal assistance.
What was the Freedmen’s Bureau?
This activist and journalist led an anti-lynching campaign to expose racial violence in the U.S.
Who was Ida B. Wells?
These laws and practices collectively reversed many Reconstruction gains and upheld white supremacy in the South.
What were Jim Crow laws and voting restrictions?