during lincoln's presidency
Who was the 16th president of the united states?
Abraham Lincoln
Who led the underground railroad?
Harriet Tubman
Who was the 17th presidency of the United States?
Andrew Johnson
what was the amendment granted citizenship to all persons "born or naturalized in the United States," including formerly enslaved people, and provided all citizens with “equal protection under the laws"?
14th Amendment
The process where the southern states left to protect their states rights?
secession
What was the route slaves would take to safe houses?
Underground Railroad
what was the effort to reintegrate Southern states from the Confederacy?
presidential reconstruction
What Amendment granted African American men the right to vote?
15th Amendment
What was the amendment that states no one can be owned or treated like a slave in the united states?
13th Amendment
what was the act that required slaves be returned to the owner even if the slave is in a free state if they are captured?
Fugitive slave act
What was the process to re-empower the Freedman's Bureau and sets reform efforts in motion that will lead to the 14th and 15th Amendments?
radical Reconstruction act
What restricted black people's right to own property, conduct business, buy and lease land, and move freely through public spaces?
Black codes
What was the speech given to declare all persons held as slaves shall be free.
Emancipation Proclamation
What was the novel written about the attitudes towards African Americans and slavery?
Uncle Tom's cabin
when did the nation begin to correct civil and human rights abuses that had lingered in American society for a century.?
Second Reconstruction Act
what was the system where the landlord or planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop usually with African Americans?
sharecropping
what was the speech given to tell the union armies defeated confederate forces in the Battle of Gettysburg? Also known as the Civil War's deadliest battle.
Gettysburg Address
What was the act that declared California a free state?
compromise of 1850
what was a federal law that was intended to restrict the power of the president to remove certain office-holders without the approval of the U.S. Senate?
Tenure of Office Act
what were state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States?
Jim Crow