Presidents
He was the President during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln
The first shots of the Civil War were fired at this fort in Charleston S.C.
Where is Fort Sumter
These are laws passed in Southern states that restricted travel and other activities of freed slaves
What are Black Codes
This Amendment made Slavery Illegal
What is the 13th Amendment?
This freed the slaves in the "states in rebellion"
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
His election lead to the Secession of the Southern States
Who is Lincoln?
This plan was devised by Abraham Lincoln which he granted a full pardon to every southern citizen who would take an oath of allegiance to the Constitution in order to join the Union
What is the 10% Plan
This Amendment made discrimination based on race, color or previous condition of servitude in voting unconstitutional and illegal.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This was the first state to secceed from the Union
What is South Carolina?
At the end of Reconstruction, these governments made up of former Confederates began to take power in the Southern States.
What are Redeemer Governments?
States could not reenter the Union until they passed this Amendment?
What is the 14th Amendment?
Northerners who moved South during Reconstruction were called this term
What are Carpetbaggers?
He was a former General during the Civil War before becoming President
Who is Ulysses S. Grant
This was the MAJOR cause of the Civil War with numerous states mentioning it in their "Causes for Secession"
What is Slavery?
This group was motivated by revenge, concern for the freedmen and the want to stay in power.
Who are the Radical Republicans?
These were ways the South got around the 15th Amendment?
What is poll tax or literacy tests?
This president was against Radical Republicans
Who is Andrew Johnson
Lincoln called this "the book that started this great war."
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This is the Radical Republican's response to the 10% Plan which required a majority of the citizens to take an oath of allegiance to join the Union. Lincoln would go on to use a "pocket veto" and it never passed.
What is the Wade-Davis Bill
No State shall deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This created a cycle of "economic slavery" for freedmen and poor whites after the Civil War.
What is sharecropping?