Constitutional Change
Taking effect on December 18th, 1865, this addition to the U.S. Constitution officially made slavery illegal throughout the nation.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Lasting from 1865 to 1877, this was the U.S. government's overall process of readmitting former Confederate states back into the Union.
What is Reconstruction?
This southern farming system involved working someone else's land in exchange for a small portion of crops, which often trapped farmers in a cycle of debt.
What is sharecropping?
This term describes the legal, forced separation of groups of people, such as separating white and African American individuals in public places.
What is segregation?
"The tribe has spoken."
What is Survivor?
This 1870 constitutional change granted African American men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
President Lincoln's merciful proposal to reunite the nation quickly by offering southerners amnesty if a certain percentage of voters swore a loyalty oath.
What is the Ten Percent Plan?
These Reconstruction-era laws required many formerly enslaved people to sign yearly work contracts or face arrest and fines if they were unemployed.
What are Black Codes?
After the Civil War, Southern states created laws that limited the freedom of formerly enslaved people by controlling where they could work, live, and travel. What were these laws called?
What are Black Codes?
“For Belly, Conrad is the sun.”
What is The Summer I Turned Pretty?
This word means to officially give someone the rights and privileges of a citizen by law, especially the right to vote.
What is enfranchise?
This group of politicians wanted the federal government to take a very active role in rebuilding the South because they feared southern leaders were still loyal to the Confederacy.
Who are the Radical Republicans?
Congress established this agency in 1865 to provide relief, food, housing, medical aid, and schools to poor people and former enslaved people in the South.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
These state-level laws were put in place across the American South following Reconstruction to officially enforce racial segregation.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
“JoJo! Have you learned nothing?!”
What is Dance Moms?
This amendment defined all people born or naturalized in the U.S. as citizens and guaranteed them equal protection under the law.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This 1864 strict alternative plan required 50% of a state's adult males to take a loyalty oath before forming a new government, but was stopped by Lincoln's pocket veto.
What is the Wade-Davis Bill?
Many ex-Confederates viewed these white Southerners as "traitors" because they chose to collaborate with Northern Republicans for personal profit.
What is a scalawag?
This landmark 1896 United States Supreme Court case ruled that racial segregation was perfectly legal as long as "equal" facilities were provided.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
“That’s my secret, Captain… I’m always angry.”
What is The Avengers?
While the 14th Amendment granted broad citizenship rights to people born in the U.S., it explicitly excluded this group of people from that definition.
Who are Native Americans?
Under the strict Wade-Davis Bill, anyone who had actively done this was completely banned from voting or holding office in the new state governments.
What is supported the Confederacy?
This was the negative term used to describe a Northerner who rushed to the South after the war to look for political or personal advantages.
What is a carpetbagger?
This political deal settled the contested 1876 presidential election by awarding Rutherford B. Hayes the presidency in exchange for removing federal troops from the South, effectively ending Reconstruction.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
“You nicknamed my daughter after the Loch Ness Monster?!”
What is The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1?