Civil War
Civil War and Reconstruction
Reconstruction Laws
Segregation
Reconstruction Misc.
100
This was the central cause of the American Civil War
Slavery
100
True or False: The South won the war and slavery was abolished.
False: The North won the war and slavery was abolished.
100
These three Amendments are known as the Reconstruction Amendments
13th, 14th, 15th
100
This was a hate group that formed during Reconstruction that inflicted terror on African Americans
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
100
True or False: African Americans did not gain important roles in government during the Reconstruction era.
False
200
These were the names of the North and the South during the war
Union and Confederacy
200
Name 5 states that were part of the south during the war
Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, Virginia
200
What did the 15 Amendment state?
It gave African Americans the right to vote
200
These laws enforced segregation
Jim Crow Laws
200
This group helped African Americans get on their feet once they were no longer enslaved
Freedmen's Bureau
300
This was the most important agricultural product during the civil war
Cotton
300
This was Lincoln's plan to re-unify the nation after the Civil War.
10 Percent Plan - where 10% of a southern state's voters needed to pledge their allegiance to the United States, and then the state could re-enter the Union.
300
Provide 2 examples of a Black Code
Obey curfew, couldn't rent or own land, arrested for no job, couldn't serve on juries, could only work as servants or farmers for white families, couldn't testify in court
300
Name 2 ways the KKK terrorized African Americans
Robbing, Whipping, Killing without reason, forcing to bathe in freezing rivers, kidnapping, lynching, intimidating
300
This man became President after Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
400
Name three advantages the North had during the war
More railroads, more troops, better technology, more factories, the telegraph
400
These were laws passed during Reconstruction to limit the freedoms of African Americans.
Black Codes
400
What did the 13th Amendment State?
That slavery was abolished
400
Plessy vs. Ferguson said this was legal
"Separate but equal" accommodations
400
This was an unfair system where landowners allowed formally enslaved people to use land to grow crops. But they had to sell 2/3 of the crops back at the end of the harvest. Most ended in debt.
Sharecropping
500
Who was leader of the Confederate Army?
General Robert E. Lee
500
Who assassinated President Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
500
What did the 14th Amendment state?
That every man born in the U.S. was a citizen (except Native Americans)
500
African Americans having to use different water fountains than white people. Is this an example of a Jim Crow Law or a Black Code?
Jim Crow Law - This was segregation
500
These people in Congress wanted a very different plan from Lincoln's plan, because they wanted to punish the south.
Radical Republicans