Amendments
Famous Figures
Vocab to Know
Reconstruction
Abraham Lincoln
100
This amendment freed all of the slaves in America, except in the case of convicted criminals
What is the 13th amendment?
100
He was the leader of the Union troops during the Civil War.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
100
Being more concerned with your area than with the good of the country as a whole.
What is sectionalism?
100
The group of American's that had trouble joining society after the Civil War
What are recently Freedmen?
100
The speech given by Lincoln to honor the fallen soldiers at Gettysburg and to inspire the North to continue fighting.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
200
This amendment gave citizenship to anyone born in the United States and gave all of those citizens rights.
What is the 14th amendment?
200
He was the leader of the Confederate troops during the Civil War.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
200
This compromise allowed slavery to exist South of a certain line but prevented it from existing to the North of that same line.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
200
The State the Southern States formed during the Civil War
What is to prevent the Confederacy?
200
This executive order freed all slaves in the south.
The emancipation proclamation
300
This amendment gave any American man the right to vote, regardless of their race.
What is the 15th amendment?
300
He was the President of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
300
This compromise allowed states to vote on whether or not they wanted to allow slavery.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
300
This party was the liberal party of the time, advocating for the rights of African American's.
What is the Republican party?
300
The year that Abraham Lincoln was elected, sparking South Carolina to secede.
What is 1860?
400
This amendment is often criticized for not giving women the right to vote in America
What is the 15th amendment?
400
This person had the nickname "Stonewall" for his defense during a northern attack.
Who is Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson?
400
This word means to leave the Union.
What is Secede?
400
This party was the conservative party of the time that opposed integrating recently freed African American's into the American public.
What is the Democratic party?
400
Lincoln remains one of only four presidents ever to be this.
What is assassinated?
500
The 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments are all often referred to as this.
What are the reconstruction amendments?
500
This person's famous supreme court cased ruled that African American's were not real American citizens and had little to no rights under the constitution. It also upheld slavery as a legal institution.
Who is Dredd Scott?
500
The forced removal of Native Americans from their homeland.
What was the Trail of Tears?
500
This man assassinated President Lincoln, marking the beginning of the reconstruction period.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
500
The reason that Lincoln had a beard.
What is a little girl told him that he would look better with a beard?