Vocab
The era of rebuilding that took place after the Civil War
What is Reconstruction?
16th President of the United States who freed the slaves.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Policy passed by Lincoln that freed the slaves during the Civil War.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
The first shots were fired here to begin the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
Something that the North had more of than the South that assissted in transportation.
What are railroads?
A shared agreement that has a landowner renting a portion of land to a person for a share of the crops produced.
What is sharecropping?
President who was also the most famous Union general during the Civil War.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
The amendment responsible for abolishing slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
The first major land battle of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Bullrun?
Something that the Confederacy lacked in comparison to the Union that influenced major laws and decisions.
What is a national government?
A way in which Southern laws made it harder to vote besides literacy tests.
What are poll taxes?
Famous Confederate general.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
The amendment that granted African Americans citizenship and said that states had to provide equal protection for all.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Most of the battles of the Civil War took place in this region.
What is the South?
The hate group that was formed to oppress blacks and return whites to power in the South.
What is the KKK?
The word meaning "to break away or seperate"
What is secession?
Man infamous for the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
The amendment that granted all men the right to vote, regardless of race, economic status or land owned.
What is the 15th Amendment?
The single bloodiest day in American history.
One of the successes of Reconstruction that granted new opportunities to learn.
What are public schools?
Group that Lincoln created to help freedmen be integrated into society.
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
President who was sworn in after Lincoln was murdered and infamously was against blacks being equal.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
Name of the racist laws that replaced the black codes in the South.
What are Jim Crow laws?
Lincoln's most famous speech given after a major battle.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
Percentage of citizens in Confederate states that Lincoln wanted to swear their loyalty to the United States.
What is 10%?