Civil War and Reconstruction Vocabulary

The ___th Amendment gave all people, including slaves, who were born in the US full rights as US citizens.

• 11th

• 12th

• 13th

• 14th

The leader of the country was anxious because he believed that the people were trying to start a _________.

• rebellion

• school

• business

• sports team

A ________ is an effort to cut off supplies, war material or communications from a particular area by force, either in part or totally.

• compromise

• blockade

• union

• plantation

A change to the Constitution (1865) that abolished slavery in US (made it illegal):

• 11th amendment

• 12th amendment

• 13th amendment

• 15th amendment

The treatment of people as property and to deny them their freedom is known as the system of _________.

• succession

• Emancipation

• detention

• slavery

a tax or duty to be paid on a particular class of imports or exports.

• compromise

• tariff

• problem

• solution

The rich owned large _________ where slaves worked the fields of cotton.

• land mines

• oil fields

• plantations

• football stadiums

American War know as the war between the northern and southern states, fought 1861~1865

• The American Revolution

• WWI

• Civil War

• WWII

What is the definition of social?

• Relating to society {people living together in a more or less ordered community} or its organization.

• The rights and powers held by individual U.S. states rather than the federal government.

• An estate on which crops such as coffee, sugar, and tobacco are cultivated by resident labor.

• Freedom of Speect

Things that relate to political effects, would be laws that were created, or anything to do with the government.

• True

• False