Vocabulary
Formal changes to a document
There are 27 of them
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?
1860, 1861, 1862
What is 1861?
How many colors are there in a rainbow?
What is seven?
June 19th, the date celebrated as the anniversary of the Emancipation Day for slaves in Texas
June T __ __ __ th
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.
1865
1866
1867
What was 1865?
What are the primary colors?
Red, Yellow, Blue
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?
1865
1867
1866
What is 1865?
How many arms does a starfish have?
What is 5?
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
1875
1877
1876
What is 1877?
In which year did World War II end?
1943
1944
1945
What is 1945?
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
Starts with a S
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
What is the hardest substance in our body?
What is tooth enamel?
This landmark court case decision stated that racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S. Constitution as long as the facilities for each race were equal in quality, a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal".
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?
What country was Caesar Salad invented in?
What is Mexico?
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.
Look at the title of the Jeopardy Game
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
Free Parking
Free Points
Which country consumes the most chocolate per capita?
What is Switzerland?