Causes of the Civil War
This economic system in the South relied on enslaved labor.
What is slavery?
This 1863 document freed enslaved people in Confederate states only.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This period lasted from 1865 to 1877.
What is Reconstruction?
This amendment defined citizenship in 1868.
What is the 14th Amendment?
These Southern laws restricted Black movement, labor, and voting.
What are Black Codes?
The North’s main goal at the beginning of the war was to preserve this.
What is the Union?
The Emancipation Proclamation was issued as a type of war strategy.
What is a military measure?
This federal agency provided food, medical care, and schools to freed people.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
This clause guarantees that states cannot treat people unfairly under the law.
What is the Equal Protection Clause?
These laws later evolved into this era of racial segregation.
What is the Jim Crow era?
The South justified secession using this phrase about state authority.
What are states’ rights?
More than this number of Black soldiers joined the Union Army.
What is 180,000?
This policy promised land redistribution known as “40 acres and a mule.”
What is Special Field Order No. 15?
This clause requires states to follow fair legal procedures.
What is the Due Process Clause?
This amendment protected voting rights regardless of race.
What is the 15th Amendment?
These two industrial advantages helped the North win the war.
What are factories and railroads?
This amendment permanently abolished slavery in 1865.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This president reversed the land redistribution policy.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This Supreme Court case was overturned by the 14th Amendment’s citizenship clause.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
These two tactics were used to suppress Black voting after Reconstruction.
What are literacy tests and poll taxes?
This European decision was influenced by Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, preventing support for the Confederacy.
What is Britain (or European nations) not supporting the Confederacy?
The 13th Amendment contains this loophole allowing forced labor.
What is punishment for a crime?
This economic system trapped many freed people in cycles of debt after land redistribution failed.
What is sharecropping?
This concept means anyone born in the U.S. is automatically a citizen.
What is birthright citizenship?
This violent resistance group formed during Reconstruction to oppose Black political power.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?