Gettysburg & the Civil War
He delivered the Gettysburg Address at the dedication of this national cemetery.
What is the Gettysburg National Cemetery?
This amendment officially ended slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This type of protest involves refusing to use a service until change happens — like the Montgomery Bus protest.
What is a boycott?
The NAACP published The Crisis for this purpose
What is educating the public about racism, discrimination, and racial violence?
Property taken from the enemy during wartime.
What is contraband?
This was the date the Civil War officially ended at Appomattox Court House.
What is April 9, 1865?
This amendment protected citizenship for African Americans.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This type of protest involves sitting in a segregated space and refusing to leave.
What is a sit‑in?
This organization was founded in 1909 to fight for civil rights through legal action and public awareness.
What is the NAACP?
A farmer who raises crops for a landowner in exchange for a share of the harvest.
What is a sharecropper?
This Confederate general surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
This amendment protected African American men’s right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This 54‑mile march from Selma to Montgomery advocated for Black voting rights.
What is the Selma to Montgomery March?
This strategy, used by many civil rights groups, involved peaceful protest without physical force.
What is nonviolence?
A system where farmers give landowners part of their crop as payment for using the land.
What is sharecropping?
This type of unfair treatment for gain or profit is what many sharecroppers experienced.
What is exploitation?
the rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality
civil rights
Participants in the Children’s March of 1963 were protesting this governor’s refusal to desegregate schools.
Who is Governor George Wallace?
civil rights organization formed in 1909 by Black and White activists to take action against ongoing violence and discrimination against Black Americans
NAACP
to refuse to buy or use the services of an organization or business
boycott (v.)
This period from 1865–1876 focused on rebuilding the nation and expanding civil rights.
What is Reconstruction?
to treat unfairly for gain or profit
exploit
the period between the end of Reconstruction and the beginning of the 20th-century Civil Rights Movement when African Americans were denied their civil rights by “separate but equal” laws and White supremacy
Jim Crow
a person who uses violence to achieve political or social goals
terrorist
to separate people of different races
segregate (v.)