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Civil War
Amendments
Vocab
Political & Social
Crazy Crossword
100
The North was referred to as this term
What is the Union
100
This Amendment freed all slaves in the South
What is the 13th Amendment?
100
The period of time following the Civil War where the South was being rebuilt
What is Reconstruction?
100
The term used to describe the separation of facilities based on race.
What is segregation?
100
To reunite the Union and the Confederacy was the primary goal of which section of the United States? 1 word, 5 letters
What is the North?
200
The South is referred to as this term
What is the Confederacy
200
This amendment gave all citizens the right to vote, regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
What is the 15th Amendment?
200
The first year of Reconstruction where there was leniency given to the South.
What is Presidential Reconstruction plan?
200
The supreme court case which allowed segregation of facilities to continue.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
200
Protecting their way of life was the primary goal of this region of the United States in fighting the Civil War. 1 word, 5 letters
What is the South?
300
Abraham Lincoln was president of the ______________ and Jefferson Davis was president of the _______________.
What are the North (Union) and the South (Confederacy)?
300
This amendment made all people born in the United States citizens (including former slaves)
What is the 14th Amendment?
300
Northerners who moved south to aid in Reconstruction.
Who are carpetbaggers?
300
The clause adopted in the "Plessy v. Ferguson" case which allowed the segregation of facilities as long as the facilities were the same quality.
What is the clause "separate but equal?"
300
These are the freedom's protected by the first 10 amendments of the Constitution. 2 words, 11 letters
What are Civil Rights?
400
- Lincoln was elected president - Southern states seceded from the Union - Shots fired at Fort Sumter
What are the immediate causes of the Civil War?
400
This terrorist group tried to stop African Americans from exercising their new rights given by the Reconstruction amendments.
Who are the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
400
Southerners who supported Reconstruction were referred to by this name in the South
Who are scalawags?
400
The agency that was created by the government to aid newly freed slaves in the South
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
400
laws enacted by the South to limit the new freedom's of previously enslaved people 2 words, 10 letters
What are the Black Codes
500
The Civil war was fought for these 3 main reasons
What are Slavery, Sectionalism (secede), States Rights?
500
These are the three laws that the South passed to try and prevent African Americans from exercising their 15th Amendment right.
What are the grandfather clause, literacy tests, and poll taxes?
500
An economic policy adopted by the South following the Civil War, where a land owner required portions of crop from a tenant farmer
What is sharecropping?
500
The laws enacted by the South following the legalization of segregation.
What are the "Jim Crow Laws?"
500
The South was divided into 5 military districts during this phase of Reconstruction and congress had control. 2 words, 21 letters
What is Radical Reconstruction?