Amendments
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States
What is the 13th Amendment?
Assassinated in 1865; offered a relatively mild reunification plan.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Southern state laws right after the Civil War that restricted African American freedom.
What are Black Codes?
Farming system where families worked land for a share of the crop.
What is sharecropping?
A source created during the time you are studying.
What is a primary source?
This amendment defined citizenship and promised equal protection of the laws.
What is the 14th Amendment?
President who followed Lincoln and clashed with Radical Republicans.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
Later system of legal segregation and discrimination after Reconstruction.
What is Jim Crow?
Being trapped working to pay a debt that never clears.
What is debt peonage?
Asking who wrote it, for whom, and why.
What is sourcing?
This amendment said voting rights could not be denied because of race.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Federal agency that ran schools and aided formerly enslaved people.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
A similarity: both Black Codes and Jim Crow tried to maintain this social order.
What is white supremacy / racial hierarchy? (accept equivalent)
1887 law that broke tribal land into individual allotments.
What is the Dawes Act?
Placing an event in its wider historical setting.
What is contextualization?
Together, the 13th, 14th, and 15th are often called these.
What are the Reconstruction Amendments?
Congressional faction that pushed harder for Black rights and Southern change.
Who are the Radical Republicans?
A difference in timing: Black Codes appear immediately postwar; Jim Crow expands mainly after this era ends.
What is Reconstruction? (after 1877)
Native religious movement of hope that alarmed U.S. officials in the late 1800s.
What is the Ghost Dance?
Checking whether multiple sources agree about an event.
What is corroboration?
Which amendment would you cite first if a state passed a law treating Black citizens unequally after the war?
What is the 14th Amendment? (equal protection / citizenship)
Lakota leader associated with Plains resistance in the late 1800s.
Who is Sitting Bull?
True or False: Jim Crow laws were identical to the 13th Amendment.
What is False? (13th abolished slavery; Jim Crow segregated/discriminated)
1890 massacre marking a tragic end phase of Plains conflict.
What is Wounded Knee?
A later textbook chapter analyzing Reconstruction is this type of source.
What is a secondary source?