Vocab
This system allowed newly freed slaves to work land for a share of the crop.
What is sharecropping?
He was the president during the Civil War and issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This compromise tried to balance the number of slave and free states.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This famous speech Lincoln delivered at a battlefield of the Civil War.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
This group helped former slaves adjust to freedom by providing education and assistance.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
He became President after Lincoln was assassinated.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
The Supreme Court case ruled that African Americans were not citizens.
What is the Dred Scott Case?
This amendment granted citizenship and equal protection under the law to all born in the U.S.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This document declared all slaves in the Confederate states to be free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
These laws enforced racial segregation in the South after Reconstruction.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
A leader of the Radical Republicans who fought for rights of African-Americans.
Who is Thaddeus Stevens?
This book, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, exposed the harsh realities of slavery.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This amendment gave Black men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
The nickname given to Lincoln's Plan for Reconstruction.
What is the 10% plan?
These were laws that restricted the rights of Black people after the Civil War.
What are Black Codes?
This group wanted to punish the South and ensure rights for freed slaves.
Who are the Radical Republicans?
This abolitionist led a raid on a federal armory in Virginia to fight against slavery.
Who is John Brown?
This bill was vetoed by President Johnson, but Congress overrode his veto to make it a law.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
The name of the theatre that Lincoln was assassinated in.
What is Ford's Theatre?
The president's power to reject a law or proposal.
veto
He assassinated Lincoln at Ford's Theatre.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
This event, which involved a violent conflict over the issue of slavery, was the result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
This action involves formally charging a government official with high crimes or misdemeanors.
What is impeach?
The first name of Lincoln's wife.
What is Mary?