Civil War
This was the central cause of the American Civil War
Slavery
True or False: The South won the war and slavery was abolished.
False: The North won the war and slavery was abolished.
These three Amendments are known as the Reconstruction Amendments
13th, 14th, 15th
The separation of black people and white people was called this
Segregation
True or False: African Americans did not gain important roles in government during the Reconstruction era.
False
These were the names of the North and the South during the war
Union and Confederacy
Name 3 states that were part of the south during the war
Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, Virginia
This group helped African Americans get on their feet once they were no longer enslaved
Freedmen's Bureau
This was a hate group that formed during Reconstruction that inflicted terror on African Americans
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
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
This was the most important agricultural product during the civil war
Protect the rights of freedmen and unify the country
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
What did the 13th Amendment State?
That slavery was abolished
Name 2 things African Americans were provided by the Freedmen's bureau to help them get back on their feet
Food, clothing, medical care
Name two advantages the North had during the war
More railroads, more troops, better technology, more factories, the telegraph
These were laws passed during Reconstruction to limit the freedoms of African Americans.
Black Codes
What did the 15 Amendment state?
It gave African Americans the right to vote
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
What did the 14th Amendment state?
That every man born in the U.S. was a citizen (except Native Americans)
Who was leader of the Confederate Army?
General Robert E. Lee
Who assassinated President Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
This man became President after Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
These laws enforced segregation
Jim Crow Laws
What did the 14th Amendment do
Granted citizenship and equal protection