Civil War Unit Flash Cards

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Jim Crow Laws

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Laws that allowed racial segregation, created by many governments in the south following the Civil War.

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Who gave the Gettysburg Address, a famous speech during the Civil War?

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Abraham Lincoln

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Robert E. Lee signed the Confederacy’s surrender on April 9, 1865, at the ________________.

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Appomattox Court House

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True or false? Three Reconstruction amendments that intended to expand rights and protections for former slaves were the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments is true.

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True

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True or false? Reconstruction ended with the Compromise of 1877.

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True

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True or false? Jefferson Davis was the President of the Confederate States during the Civil War.

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True

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The amendment that abolished slavery in the United States is the _____ Amendment.

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13th

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The amendment that granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States is the ______ Amendment.

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14th

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A __________ was a large, wealthy southern farm that depended on slave labor.

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plantation

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____________ was the period to rebuild the south and unify the nation following the Civil War.

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Reconstruction