Post Civil War
Northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War for political or economic reasons were often called this by Southerners.
Who are carpetbaggers?
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Many African Americans were stuck in this economic system that replaced slavery and kept them in poverty.
What is sharecropping?
This term describes a source that favors one side or opinion over another, sometimes unfairly.
What is bias?
This document, written in 1776, declared the 13 colonies independent from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This government agency was created to help formerly enslaved people with education, food, and jobs after the Civil War.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
This amendment granted citizenship and equal protection under the law to formerly enslaved people.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Unlike sharecroppers, these farmers paid rent in cash and had more control over their crops.
What is tenant farming?
This type of source interprets or analyzes primary sources, such as textbooks or biographies.
What is a secondary source?
This 1787 law created a system for admitting new states to the U.S. from the Northwest Territory.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
These laws were passed in Southern states after the Civil War to limit the rights of freed African Americans.
What are Black Codes?
This amendment gave African American men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
After the Civil War, the South lacked this type of development, which limited job opportunities outside of farming.
What is industrialization?
This type of source is created by someone who experienced an event firsthand, like a diary or photograph.
What is a primary source?
This 1786 rebellion by Massachusetts farmers showed the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation and led to calls for a stronger federal government.
What is Shays' Rebellion?
These laws enforced racial segregation in the South for decades following Reconstruction.
What are Jim Crow laws?
This amendment made the production, sale, and transportation of alcohol illegal in 1920.
What is the 18th Amendment?
This group used violence and terror to prevent African Americans from voting or exercising their rights during and after Reconstruction.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
When evaluating a source's credibility, you should check for this — who wrote it and their qualifications.
What is/are the author's credentials (or authority)?
The Northwest Ordinance banned ____ in the Northwest Territory.
What is slavery?
White Southerners who supported Reconstruction and Republican policies were called this by other Southerners.
Who are scalawags?
This amendment repealed Prohibition in 1933.
What is the 21st Amendment?
This fee was required to vote and was used to keep many African Americans and poor whites from voting.
What is a poll tax?
The biography of President Barack Obama is considered to be.
Under the Articles of Confederation, Congress’s biggest success was organizing and governing this area of land.
What is the Northwest Territory?