Lesson 1
Written documents and other information created by people who were not involved in the historical events in question.
What is a Secondary source?
The ideal in which all people are treated the same way and are valued equally
What is Equality? 🙉
The three branches of the US Government?
What is Legislative, Executive, Judicial?
Lincoln made this to make a moral connection to the war in the Union and Europe by freeing the slaves. He signed it on January 1st, 1863 but it didn’t have an immediate effect.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation? 🥷🏿
a well-known terror group that was opposed to equality for African Americans. They burned African American schools and sometimes would even murder them.
What was the Ku Klux Klan and how were African Americans affected by the Ku Klux Klan
Written documents, photographs, films, and other records created by people who took part in historical events.
What is a Primary Source?
privileges or powers granted to people either by an agreement among themselves or by law
Whats is Rights 😩
What is the Preamble, Articles, Amendments?
What are the three parts of the Constitution?
These soldiers were treated unfairly compared to others, they were paid less and risked enslavement if they were captured. They were also given the worst jobs, like digging trenches with unfit equipment.
What is African American soldiers?
Laws that intended to restrict the freedom and limit the advancement of African Americans.
What were black codes and what did they intend to do to African Americans.
Finding the meaning or significance of historical events
What is historical interpretation?
The US wanted a government where the people retain the power to select their leaders and influence the laws that govern them, So they have a ________
What is a Democracy? 🥳
The action of charging an official with a crime committed in office?
What is impeachment?
There were riots and food shortages in the confederacy. Food prices shot up to unaffordable prices, and people in the confederacy were loosing faith in their currency due to decreasing trade with others.
What is inflation?
The Laws were state and local laws in the south that enforced racial segregation. It provided food, clothing, education, medical care, and legal advice for former slaves.
What were Jim Crow Laws and what was the Freedman's Bureau
Historians gather facts and information about people and events in history. A selection of this information becomes evidence on which they base their historical accounts.
What is historical evidence?
A group of people within a society who possess similar socioeconomic status, depending on the location and time, the divisions were described in different terms, such as patricians and plebeians, lords and serfs, nobles and commoners, or enslavers and the enslaved.
What is Social Classes? 🙈💁🏾
Establishes that federal law must be followed in cases involving a conflict between federal and state law?
What is the function of the Supremacy Clause?
The Union Army used its forces to restrict the Confederate Army’s supplies, they established naval blockades to restrict access to Confederate ports and the Mississippi River, which stopped trade for new supplies. They pushed back the Confederates until they got to their capital of Richmond and destroyed their leadership.
What is the Union Army’s Anaconda
The U.S. supreme court case that upheld segregation and established the separate but equal doctrine.
What was Plessy v. Ferguson and what was the result of the court case
The Study of history can help people develop greater empathy for others, become better thinkers, and avoid repeating the mistakes of the past.
What is Study History?
What document said this, "We hold these truths to be self-evident"
What is The Declaration of Independence? 😘🥒
A system where judges cannot be removed or have a lowered salary for making unpopular decisions
What is the system of independent judiciary?
The deadliest battle of the Civil War, 50000 soldiers were killed over three days. President Lincoln delivered a speech commemorating the 23 thousand Union soldiers killed during the war
What is the Battle of Gettysburg
The amendments that abolished slavery throughout the nation, grants citizenship to all people that are born or naturalized in the United States and prohibits states from denying individuals due process or the equal protection of the laws. And says that that citizens right to vote cannot be denied or abridged by the United States due to race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
What is the 13th, 14th, and 15th, amendment and how were different groups of people were affected by these amendments.