TPAH Unit 5 - Civil War & Reconstruction

Loyalty to one's own region of the country, rather than to the nation as a whole

• Regionalism

• Sectionalism

• Nationalism

• Patriotism

Abolishes and prohibits slavery in all circumstances except in the case of criminal offense

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

Agency set up by Congress to provide newly freed Black Americans with shelter, food, and medicinal aid and to help them set up schools and find work. The Bureau was dissolved in 1872.

• The Bureau of African-American Affairs

• The Black Caucus

• The Freedmen's Bureau

• The Black Panther Party

Declares that all persons born in the U.S. are citizens and are guaranteed equal protection of the laws. Established birthright citizenship, meaning if a person is born on American soil, they are automatically an American citizen.

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

Dominant agricultural system for freed Black Southerners.

• Tenant Farming

• Trick Question - they actually moved into manufacturing jobs

• Agribusiness owners

• Sharecropping

A secret organization that used terrorist tactics in an attempt to restore white supremacy in Southern states after the Civil War. They used both covert and obvious methods of intimidation and violence against Black Southerners to maintain political, economic, and social white supremacy.

• Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

• Sons of the Confederacy

• Daughters of the Confederacy

• the Freemasons

Private businesses could partner with prison systems throughout the South to use prisoners as a source of cheap labor.

• School-to-prison pipeline

• Convict-Leasing System

• Tenant Farming

• The Southern Prison Partnership

A formal, written letter that said a state was leaving the group of all states of the United States. Within these letters, Southern states claimed it was their individual state's right to decide that they would maintain slavery.

• Declarations of Sentiment

• Declarations of Southern Independence

• Declarations of Secession

Invention that made it possible for American citizens to see war up close and personal. Magnified public outrage at the Civil War's carnage.

• Television & film

• Radio

• Photography

• the Printing Press

Era in the South after Civil War (1865) until 1950s. African Americans were freed from slavery and could legally vote (Amendments 13, 14, 15) but were still subjected to discriminatory state laws enforcing segregation and kept from voting by laws (ex. poll taxes, literacy tests) and by violence (KKK)

• Segregation Era

• Jim Crow Era

• Reconstruction Era

• Convict Leasing Era