Vocab
The period after the Civil War focused on rebuilding the South and integrating formerly enslaved people into society
Reconstruction
This side of the country wanted to keep and expand slavery.
South
True or False: Those in the South followed Reconstruction fully.
False
This amendment outlawed slavery in the US.
13th Amendment
What does the word "Antebellum" mean?
Before the war
The act of withdrawing from an organization or alliance; Southern states seceded from the Union.
Secession
What was the first battle of the Civil War?
Fort Sumter
True or False: Reconstruction started midway through the Civil War.
False
This amendment protected everyone born and naturalized in the US and gave them due process of law
14th Amendment
Americans started to believe in the idea of Manifest Destiny, which they believed meant what?
That they had the god-given right to expand westward
Laws passed in Southern states to restrict the rights of freed African Americans
Black Codes
Union/Confederacy
When newly freed men were given a plot of land and had to give over half their crop as pay.
Sharecropping
15th Amendment
When would people leave on the Oregon Trail? (What month)
April
A declaration issued by President Lincoln in 1863 that freed slaves in Confederate states.
Emancipation Proclamation
What was the document that Lincoln made that set those who were enslaved in the Confederate states?
Emancipation Proclamation
How did newly freed people get into an unending cycle of debt with sharecropping?
They would need to start by borrowing for necessary materials and then had to pay it back.
People got around this amendment by the creation of black codes which would make more newly freed individual get arrested.
13th Amendment
Which party split in two during the Election of 1860?
Democrat
Slave states that did not secede
Border States
Bloodiest Battle of the Civil War.
Antitem
What was the Grandfather Clause?
You could only vote if your grandfather could vote
People got around this amendment by creating literacy tests and poll tax.
15th Amendment
What was the Missouri Compromise? Why was it necessary?
Missouri would become a slave state and Maine would be a free state. It was necessary because there needed to be an equal number of slave and free states.