People
The first U.S. president to be assassinated
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Formal changes to a document
What is an amendment?
Amendment that made slavery illegal
What is the 13th amendment?
During Reconstruction, the Southern states had to free all of their ________.
What are slaves?
The year the Civil War began.
What is 1861?
The man who assassinated Abraham Lincoln
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
June 19th, the date celebrated as the anniversary of the Emancipation Day for slaves in Texas
What is Juneteenth?
Amendment that allowed all MALE U.S. citizens the right to vote
What is the 15th amendment?
During Reconstruction, the Southern states had to declare ______ was illegal.
What is secession?
The year the Civil War ended.
What was 1865?
The group in the U.S. Congress who imposed more harsh conditions for the South during Reconstruction
Who are Radical Republicans?
The federal government's plan to restore the South to the Union after the Civil War
What is Reconstruction?
Amendment that allowed all people born in the U.S. to be citizens
What is the 14th amendment?
Total number of casualties from the Civil War
What is 600,000+?
The starting year of the Reconstruction Era
What is 1865?
The 17th President of the U.S. who agreed with Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction (no punishment for the South)
Who is President Andrew Johnson?
Laws passed by the Southern governments that limited the rights of African Americans
What are Black Codes?
Freedmen COULD NOT vote, be on a jury, have certain jobs and COULD be arrested if they did not have a job
What are Black Code Laws?
Organization set up by the federal government to help newly freed slaves gain the rights of U.S. citizens (education, voting, food, shelter, etc.)
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
The ending year of the Reconstruction Era
What is 1877?
The 18th president of the U.S.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
A person who works on a farm (usually in the south) but does not own it and has to pay rent in the form of crops. Economic slavery.
Who is a sharecropper?
Laws that forcefully separated people of different races
Segregation/Jim Crow Laws
During Reconstruction, the Southern states had to take an oath of ______ to the U.S.
What is loyalty?
April 14, 1865
What is the day Abraham Lincoln was assassinated?
The actor who invented the minstrel character "Jim Crow."
Who was Thomas D. Rice
People who took advantage of Reconstruction to make a profit in the South
What are carpetbaggers?
Laws that the South created to push back against the harsh conditions of Reconstruction
What are Black Codes and Segregation/Jim Crow Laws?
During Reconstruction, the Southern states had to write new state ______.
What are constitutions?
June 19, 1865
What is the day slaves were freed in Texas (Juneteenth)?