One Step Forward (States)
This is an essential right that was denied to children and adults during enslavement and quickly began after the Civil War.
What is public education?
Keeping formerly enslaved people in a dependent cycle of debt was a staple of this system.
What is sharecropping?
The process of readmitting the states that seceded back into the Union.
What is Reconstruction?
The Union had this disadvantage of leadership during the Civil War.
What is military?
The African American regiment that fought at the Battle of Fort Wagner.
What is the 54th Massachusetts?
After the Civil War African Americans began exercising this freedom and right, that is essential for a functioning democracy.
What is voting?
Grandfather Clauses said that if your grandfather could do this so could you. If he couldn't neither could you.
What is vote?
Birthright citizenship was established with the passing of this Amendment.
What is the 14th Amendment?
The Supreme Court ruled in Scott v. Sandford that African Americans could not be this.
What is a U.S. citizen?
Factory production increasing was an effect of the Civil War on these states.
What is the North?
The majority of railroad routes were found in these states.
What are Northern?
Using violence and terror to prevent African Americans from voting was the modus operandi of this organization.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
Slavery is banned in the United States because of this Amendment.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This Supreme Court decision is the basis for segregation being legal for 100 years.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
The Emancipation Proclamation freed the enslaved population in these states.
What is the Confederacy?
Formerly enslaved people resisted having to work on plantations by doing this.
What is move to the North?
Even to this day some people in the South claim passionately that this is what the Civil War was about.
What are State's Rights?
Setting up schools and hospitals for African Americans were major undertakings of this agency.
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
The Union had to mobilize and invade the South, whereas, the Confederacy had the advantage of fighting this style of war.
What is defensive?
Due to the Civil War there were less resources and money was not worth as much a concept known as this.
What is inflation?
The North had much more supplies and these to use them.
What are people?
These state laws made is difficult for African Americans to vote and get jobs.
What are Black Codes?
This Amendment gave all men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Chief Justice Taney stated that only Congress had the power to suspend the writ of habeas corpus in the decision on this case in 1861.
What is Ex Parte Merryman?
This type of leadership was an advantage of the Union, even if the coin with his visiage might be discontinued.
What is political leadership?