All Things Vocab
This word means to separate from a nation and become independent.
Secede
The amendment abolished slavery everywhere in the United States.
13th Amendment
This was the time after the Civil War when the U.S. worked to rebuild and bring Southern states back into the Union.
Reconstruction
This term describes a time when laws enforced racial separation and inequality after Reconstruction.
Jim Crow era
This was the name of the 11 states that left the United States after Abraham Lincoln was elected.
Confederate States
Which amendment granted this right?
It gave African American men the right to vote and said that a citizen's right to vote could not be limited because of race, color, or previous enslavement. But did not give women the right to vote.
15th Amendment
The presence of the military was the federal government’s way of ensuring that Black rights were protected during the Reconstruction. What this initiative called?
Military Reconstruction
This was a terrorist group that used violence against African Americans for political and social goals.
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
This word means treating people unfairly because of things like race, religion, or gender.
discriminate
Which amendment granted African Americans these rights?:
all African Americans the right to citizenship in the United States. This meant that formerly enslaved people were protected by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
all citizens of the United States have the right to due process under the law. This means that a citizen's life, freedom, and property cannot be taken away without a legal reason.
all citizens were governed by the same set of laws. There cannot be special laws for one race or group.
14th Amendment
This Reconstruction program tried to help formerly enslaved people become landowners.
Freedman's Bureau
This Supreme Court case decided that "seperate, but equal" was legal.
Plessy v. Ferguson
This word means to separate people based on race.
segregate