The Civil War & Reconstruction

The Civil War was between:

• England and America

• The American North and The American South

• Africa and America

Reasons Civil War started (Pick 2)

• Ending slavery

• The South wanted to secede (leave) the union

• England wanted the colonies

Description of Civil War (Pick 2)

• No one died

• Thousands of Black and White people died

• Land in the South was destroyed

What does Abolition mean?

• Keep slavery

• End slavery

• Make more slaves

The end of the Civil War and the abolition of slavery

• Did not help the African American slaves very much

• Gave African Americans complete freedom from slavery

• Made WHite people slaves

During the Reconstruction (pick 3)

• Slavery was supposed to end

• The South was destroyed

• Black people did not have homes or jobs

• Black people were treated great in the South.

The Black Codes

• Were good for Black people in the South

• Made it easy to arrest Black people in the South

• Gave black people rights in the South

If A Black person was arrested in the South, according to the Black Codes

• He/she went to jail

• He/she was on house arrest

• He/she would be forced to be a slave

President Lincoln's idea to unite the North and the South

• Force the South to come back into the Union

• Bring the South back into the country as slowly and gently as possible.

• The South did not have to unite with the North

When did racism begin in the U.S.?

• After the Civil War

• During the Reconstruction

• When white people came from England