a non southern who came to the south during reconstruction to take advantage of its economic and political situation.
What is the definition of carpetbagger?
100
A system of tenant works someone eles's land for a share of the crop.
What is the definition of sharecropper?
200
slave holding states that boarded the free states and did not secede during the civil war.
What is the definition of border states?
200
laws praised by southern legislative after the civil war to limit the political and civil rights of former slaves.
What is the definition of Black codes?
200
A brief speech made by President Lincoln at the dedication of the national cemetery at the Gettysburg battle field. In it , he arged the north to win the civil war in order to preserve the union and democratic ideals on which it was founded.
What was the Gettysburg address?
200
A poor farmer who did not own land and had to live on and work the land of others, either for wages for a share of the crop they produced.
What is a Tenant farmer?
300
the great compromise was some states that became slave states and many southerns moved there with their slaves.
What is the definition of compromise?
300
Name given to the southern states during the civil war. The official name of the government was "confederate states of america".
What is the definition of confederacy?
300
To file charges to remove a politician from office.
What is the definition of impeach?
400
To set free, especially with respect to slaves.
What is the definition of Emancipation?
400
the action of southern states, in 1860 and 1861, of withdrawing from the union.
What is the definition of Secession?
400
The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, known collectively as the Civil War Amendments, were designed to ensure equality for recently emancipated slaves.
What is the 13th-15th amendment?
500
The document issued by Pres. Abraham Lincoln that stated as of January 1, 1863, that all slaves in the confederacy were considered "forever free".
What is the definition of Emancipation proclamation?
500
A network of people and places that sheltered slaves as they escaped the south seeking freedom in the north.
What is the definition of underground railroad?
500
Belief that American states have certain rights under the tenth amendment to the U.S constitution that the national government cannot violate.