Constitution
The first phrase of the preamble.
What is "We the People?"
Gave women the right to vote.
What is 19th?
The nickname for first 10 Amendments in the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Another name for the North.
What is the Union?
Laws passed in the South just after the Civil War aimed at limiting freedom for African Americans.
What are Black Codes?
The three parts of the Constitution.
What are the Preamble, Articles, and Amendments?
Limits the presidency to 2 4-year terms.
What is the 22nd?
Free speech, religion, press, assembly, and complaining about the government.
What is the 1st?
Another name for the South.
What is the Confederacy?
A system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of produce.
What is sharecropping?
The highest ranking member of the executive branch.
Who is the President?
What is the 13th?
Right to bear arms.
What is the 2nd?
The leader of the United States at the time.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
Lincoln's Democratic Vice President who was against Reconstruction.
Who was Andrew Johnson?
The highest ranking members of the judicial branch.
What is the Supreme Court?
This number made voting legal for freed people.
What is the 15th?
No cruel or unusual punishment.
The leader of the Confederacy at the time.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
Name for Northerners who moved South to help rebuild (for money).
What are carpetbaggers?
The two houses or chambers of the legislative branch.
What are the House of Representatives and the Senate?
This number gave citizenship to freed people and people born in the US.
What is the 14th?
Warrants required or reasonable cause to search and seize.
What is the 4th?
The process of a state leaving the Union.
What is seccession?
White Southerners who worked with northern Republicans during Reconstruction, often for personal profit.
Who were scalawags?