Gettysburg & the Civil War
Amendments 13–15
Civil Rights Actions
Key Organizations
Vocabulary Time
100

He delivered the Gettysburg Address at the dedication of this national cemetery.

What is the Gettysburg National Cemetery?

100

This amendment officially ended slavery in the United States.

 What is the 13th Amendment?

100

This type of protest involves refusing to use a service until change happens — like the Montgomery Bus protest.

What is a boycott?

100

The NAACP published The Crisis for this purpose

What is educating the public about racism, discrimination, and racial violence?

100

Property taken from the enemy during wartime.

What is contraband?

200

This was the date the Civil War officially ended at Appomattox Court House.

What is April 9, 1865?  

200

This amendment protected citizenship for African Americans.

What is the 14th Amendment?

200

This type of protest involves sitting in a segregated space and refusing to leave.

What is a sit‑in?

200

This organization was founded in 1909 to fight for civil rights through legal action and public awareness.

What is the NAACP?

200

A farmer who raises crops for a landowner in exchange for a share of the harvest.

What is a sharecropper?

300

This Confederate general surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House.

Who is Robert E. Lee?

300

This amendment protected African American men’s right to vote.

 What is the 15th Amendment?

300

This 54‑mile march from Selma to Montgomery advocated for Black voting rights.

What is the Selma to Montgomery March?

300

This strategy, used by many civil rights groups, involved peaceful protest without physical force.

What is nonviolence?

300

A system where farmers give landowners part of their crop as payment for using the land.

What is sharecropping?

400

This type of unfair treatment for gain or profit is what many sharecroppers experienced.

What is exploitation?

400

the rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality

civil rights

400

Participants in the Children’s March of 1963 were protesting this governor’s refusal to desegregate schools.

Who is Governor George Wallace?

400

civil rights organization formed in 1909 by Black and White activists to take action against ongoing violence and discrimination against Black Americans

NAACP

400

to refuse to buy or use the services of an organization or business

boycott (v.)

500

This period from 1865–1876 focused on rebuilding the nation and expanding civil rights.

What is Reconstruction?

500

to treat unfairly for gain or profit

exploit

500

the period between the end of Reconstruction and the beginning of the 20th-century Civil Rights Movement when African Americans were denied their civil rights by “separate but equal” laws and White supremacy

Jim Crow

500

a person who uses violence to achieve political or social goals

terrorist

500

to separate people of different races

segregate (v.)