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What is another name the South went by?
Confederacy
What is the area of the United States that supported slavery?
The South/Confederacy
What is one reason the Civil War began?
Disagreement over slavery
What were the laws used to keep Blacks as second-class citizens after the Civil War, especially in the South?
Jim Crow Laws
What is the name of the violet/terrorist organization that tried to stop African Americans from exercising their right to be free/to vote/to participate in politics/to be treated with equality?
Ku Klux Klan
What is another name the North called themselves?
Union
What was the escape route the slaves used to go from the South to the North?
Underground Railroad
What was the start of the Civil War (the battle name)?
Battle at Fort Sumter
What is the purpose of the 13th Amendment?
To end forced labor without pay (except for punishment of a crime)
What term was used for African Americans who lived on plantation land, worked the fields for a share of the crops to try to pay off their debt?
Sharecroppers
What was the era after the Civil War known as?
Reconstruction
What were the laws that created harsher punishments for runaway slaves?
What are the Fugitive Slave Acts?
What was the final straw for the Southern states to start the Civil War and suceed?
Abraham Lincoln's election
What is the purpose of the 14th Amendment?
To give citizenship to all people born in the US
The term for keeping Blacks and Whites separate.
Segregation
What is the term used for people who wanted to get rid of slavery?
Abolitionists
Who was the President who emancipated (freed) slaves?
Abraham Lincoln
Who won the War?
The Union
What is the purpose of the 15th Amendment?
To allow all male citizens in the US to vote, regardless of race
What were the two or three things used to discourage Black People from voting?
Extra 200 points if you get the third answer for a total of 600 points
Poll Taxes and Literacy Tests
Also, criminal disenfranchisement laws which restrict voting rights for individuals with past criminal convictions
Name the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad (double points if you get two people!)
Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass
What was the document written to free the slaves in the Confederate states during the Civil War?
Emancipation Proclamation
Who was the President of the Confederacy?
Jefferson Davis
What was the loophole used in the South to go against the 13th Amendment and continue labor without pay?
Sharecropping
Give 3 examples of Jim Crow laws
Segregation (separate schools, bathrooms, restaurants, places of transportations, waiting rooms, movie theater areas, etc), voting restrictions (poll taxes/literacy tests), prohibition of interracial marriage, Grandfather clauses, and restrictions on housing