Civil War Causes
What President was elected in 1860 that upset many Southern voters, eventually leading to secession?
List one of the three Reconstruction Plans
Lincoln's 10 Percent Plan, The Radical Republicans' Plan, or Johnson's Plan
List one of the three Reconstruction Amendments
13, 14 or 15
What supreme court case legalized segregation in the U.S?
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Give the term: formal withdrawal from an organization
Secession
Describe the Missouri Compromise
Missouri could enter the Union as a slave state, Maine would enter as a free state, and the 36 30 line was established (states above would be free, states below would be slave states)
How would seceded states be able to rejoin the Union under Abraham Lincoln's 10 Percent Plan?
10% of voters in each seceded state would have to take an oath of loyalty to the Union in order to rejoin
Define the 13th Amendment
Abolished slavery
Define literacy test
Give the term: The time period following the Civil War in which the United States government worked to reunite the nation and rebuild the South.
Reconstruction
What was the name of the event that occurred directly as a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Could former confederate soldiers hold political offices in the Radical Republicans' Plan?
No, they could not.
Define the 15th Amendment
All men, regardless of race, can vote
Define poll taxes
A fee one must pay in order to vote
Give the term: established by Congress in 1865 to help millions on former Black slaves after the Civil War
Freedmen's Bureau
Who was President of the Confederacy?
Jefferson Davis
What bill under the Radical Republicans' plan required 50% of all voters in each seceded state to pledge loyalty to the Union?
The Wade Davis Bill
Define both parts to the 14th Amendment
Anyone born on U.S soil is considered a citizen of the U.S, all citizens have equal protection under the law
What was the name of the series of laws passed to limit the rights of African Americans in the South?
Jim Crow Laws
Give the person: 17th President of the United States who took office after the assassinaton of President Abraham Lincoln.
Andrew Johnson
What was the first state to secede the Union?
South Carolina
Which African Americans could vote under Lincoln's 10% Plan?
Union soldiers and educated African Americans
What was the goal of the Reconstruction Amendments
To provide rights to African Americans
Answers will vary (Freedmen would work on plantations for a landowner in exchange for seeds and a plot of land. They would promise half of the crops to the landowner and also take on debt for items like food and clothing. Once harvested, freedmen would remain in debt, keeping them on the plantation. It was a cycle of debt and similar to slavery)
Give the term: A white supremacy organization created to oppress blacks in the south. It was a secret organization whose members were anonymous to the public.
Ku Klux Klan