Civil War
What were the Northern states that fought to keep the U.S. together and end slavery
Union
What was the 13th Amendment?
The law that abolished slavery in the United States.
What was the period after the Civil War called?
Reconstruction
Who was the group of politicians who wanted to protect the rights of Freedman and punish the Souther States for seceding?
Radical Republicans
Who was the 16th president that led the country during the Civil War?
Abraham Lincoln
What were the Southern states called that seceded from the U.S?
Confederacy
What was the 14th Amendment?
The law that granted citizenship and equal protection under the law to all people born in the U.S., including formerly enslaved individuals.
What were former enslaved people called who were freed after the Civil War?
Freedmen
What was a poll tax?
A fee that people had to pay to vote, used to keep African Americans from voting.
Who was President after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated?
Andrew Johnson
What does secede mean?
To leave or breakaway
What was the 15th Amendment?
The law that gave African American men the right to vote.
What were laws that passed in the South called after the Civil War called that restricted the rights of African Americans?
Black Codes
What was the Grandfather Clause?
A law that allowed people to vote only if their ancestors had voted before the Civil War, preventing many African Americans from voting
Who was Robert E. Lee?
The General of the Confederate Army
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
A document issued by President Lincoln in 1863 that freed enslaved people in Confederate states.
Did the 15th Amendment give woman the right to vote?
No
What were the laws that enforced segregation in the South after Reconstruction called?
Jim Crow Laws
Who killed Abraham Lincoln and where?
John Wilkes Booth at the Fords Theater
Who was Ulysses S Grant?
The general of the Union Army, who later became president
Where did Robert E. Lee surrender?
Appomattox Court House
What was Plessy v. Ferguson
A Supreme Court case that ruled segregation was legal under the "separate but equal" doctrine.
What was the secret group called that used violence and terror to intimidate African Americans and stop them from voting.
Ku Klux Klan
What is Segregation?
The forced separation of people based on race.
Who was the president of the Confederacy?
Jefferson Davis