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An ultimatum was given by President Lincoln on September 22, 1862, declaring if the rebels did not end the fighting and rejoin the Union before January 1, 1863, all slaves in the rebellious states would be free.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
The anti war people who wanted the Union to seek immediate peace with the Confederacy.
Who were copperheads?
a derogatory term used by Southern Democrats to describe white Southerners who supported the Republican Party during Reconstruction
What is a scalawag?
A crop grown in large quantities for sale and profit
What is a cash crop?
This amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude in the United States
What is the 13th Amendment?
The name given to the four slave states (Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri) that did not leave the Union.
What were Border States?
This was the number one cause of death in the civil war
What is sickness?
A dangerous secret society made by white Southerners
What is The Ku Klux Klan?
The inventor if the cotton gin?
This act, passed in 1872, pardoned secessionists and allowed former Confederates to hold office
What is the Amnesty Act?
To liberate; set free
What does it mean to emancipate?
passed in 1863, this law required all able-bodied males between the age of 20 and 45 to serve in the military if called.
What is the Enrollment Act or the Civil War Military Draft Act?
A tenant farmer who gives a part of each crop as rent.
What is a sharecropper?
A successful industrialist who revolutionized the modern-day cigarette
Who is James Duke?
An 1896 landmark Supreme Court case which ruled that “separate” facilities for blacks was constitutional as long as they were “equal.”
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
To leave; break away.
What does it mean to secede?
He assassinated Abraham Lincoln.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
a period of political and social reform in the United States after the Civil War that aimed to: Reintegrate the Southern states into the Union, Ensure civil rights for freed slaves, Create a multi-racial society, and Outlaw slavery
What is Radical Reconstruction?
Laws passed by Southern states that separated people according to race in schools, restaurants, theaters, trains, streetcars, playgrounds, hospitals, and even cemeteries
What are the Jim Crow laws?
Lincoln's primary goal for the Civil War
What is to save the union?
The tax that farmers had to give to the confederate government, where they gave up one tenth of their crops.
What is Tax-In-Kind?
the Constitutional right given to all United States citizens which requires charges to be filed or a hearing before they are jailed.
What is Habeas Corpus?
He assumed the presidency after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
He became President due to the compromise of 1877, in which southerns agreed to support his candidacy if he promised to end federal support for Reconstruction and end the military occupation of the former Confederate States.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
A novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that showcased the horrors of slavery with a main character who was known for his Christian faith and kindness. In the first two days of print it sold over 5,000 copies and is considered one of the most influential books in American history.
What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?