Amendments
A change to the constitution is called an...
Amendment
The President of the US during the Civil War
Abraham Lincoln
What were restrictive laws designed to limit freedoms for formerly enslaved people?
Black Codes
This organization helped formerly enslaved people gain skills and education.
Freedmen's Bureau
The two sides that were fighting in the Civil War were what?
North vs South
This Amendment freed enslaved people in the US
13th Amendment
President of the US after Abraham Lincoln. He had sympathy for the South and was the first president to be impeached.
Andrew Johnson
What were state and local laws that legalized racial segregation?
Jim Crow Laws
This was a system where families farmed a small portion of land for a landowner, on return for a "share" of the crops.
Share cropping
What is the name of the speach that Abraham Lincoln made, that freed enslaved people in the Southern states?
Emancipation Proclamation
This Amendment gave formerly enslaved men what type of rights?
Citizenship rights
Former General for the North and later president. Accepted the South's surrender at Appomattox.
Ulysses S Grant
What was the Law that Andrew Johnson vetoed, leading to his impeachment?
The Civil Rights Act of 1875
What was the name of the white supremacist organization that terrorized formerly enslaved people?
Ku Klux Klan (or KKK)
What was the (unkept) promise to formerly enslaved people, that would provide them with a livelihood?
40 acres and a mule
This Amendment gave formerly enslaved men the right to do what?
Vote
Southern General who surrendered at Appomattox
Robert E Lee
In 1883, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the Civil Rights Act of 1875 was what?
Unconstitutional
Name 1 College that was established for formerly enslaved people during Reconstruction
Howard Univeristy/Fisk University/Hampton University
What was then name of the speach that Abraham Lincoln made at a battlefield after a terrible battle?
Gettysburg Address
What group of people were left out of these Amendments?
Women
Who was the first black Senator?
Hiram Revels
This court case set up the precendent of "seperate but equal"in the United States
Plessy vs. Ferguson
What were white Southern Republicans called?
Scalawags
Name 1 state that allowed slavery, but did not secede from the Union (fought with the North against the South).
Missouri, Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky