Vocabulary
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?
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?
In the context of 1860 and southern states, what was secession?
The voluntary withdrawal from the United States?
The year the Civil War ended.
What was 1865?
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?
What court did Homer Plessy appeal his case to?
What is the Supreme Court?
The starting year of the Reconstruction Era?
What is 1865?
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?
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?
What year was Abraham Lincoln assassinated?
1865
This landmark court case reaffirmed the State of Louisiana's Separate Car Act of 1890.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
What were the 2 types of laws that Southern States 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 ______. Hint: (related to laws and statutes).
What are constitutions/ or new constitutions?
Who was impeached in 1868?
Who was Andrew Johnson?
To formally charge the President with misconduct in office.
What is to impeach
This Act, passed by the Radical Republicans in 1867, divided the former Confederacy into 5 military districts.
What was the Reconstruction Act of 1867?
(Note this is the first of Congress's Reconstruction Acts).
What was the approximate total of the casualties on both sides during the Civil War?
What was 600,000
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