Laws & Amendments
Amendment that made slavery illegal
What is the 13th amendment?
During Reconstruction, the Southern states had to free all of their ________.
What are slaves?
Lincoln's goal as president
What is to preserve the union?
June 19, 1865
What is the day slaves were freed in Texas (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 institution that replaced slavery
What is sharecropping?
What is 1865?
Amendment that allowed all people born in the U.S. to be citizens
What is the 14th amendment?
During Reconstruction, the Southern states had to take an oath of ______ to the U.S.
What is loyalty?
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 year that Texas created the new constitution that we still use today
What is 1876?
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?
During Reconstruction, the Southern states had to write new state ______.
What are constitutions?
One of the most important effects of Lincoln's assassination on the South
What are harsh Reconstruction conditions?
The ending year of the Reconstruction Era
What is 1876?
Laws that forcefully separated people of different races
Segregation/Jim Crow Laws
One of the most important effects of the Civil War
What is the U.S. had to be rebuilt?
Total number of casualties from the Civil War
What is 600,000+
April 14, 1865
What is the day Abraham Lincoln was assassinated?