Civil War & Reconst ~ EOC Practice ~ Connection Review Cards

War between the North & South; sectional differences, slavery & western expansion all led to the outbreak of the war

Northern victory led to long painful period of Reconstruction

• WW1

• Civil War

• WWII

• Revolutionary War

1865-1877- 1877 – period after Civil War, primarily related to rebuilding the South

Disagreement over how to deal with southerners

Freedman’s Bureau, Black Codes, & passage of Thirteenth, Fourteenth & Fifteenth Amendments

• Civil War

• Reconstruction

• 13th Amendment

• Dred Scott decision

Which amendment abolished slavery?

• 13th

• 14th

• 19th

• 18th

Which amendment:

Defined U.S. citizenship as including all persons born in the United States including African Americans.

Guaranteed that no citizen could be deprived of his or her rights without due process.

• 13th

• 14th

• 18th

• 19th

What amendment:

Removed restrictions on voting based on race, color, or ever having been a slave

Granted voting rights to all male U.S. citizens over the age of 21

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• 19th

Laws passed by Southern states to establish and enforce racial segregation in everyday life

Passed in the South following the Civil War

Repealed with the passage of Civil Rights legislation and Supreme Court rulings

• Dawes Act

• sharecropping

• Radical Republicans

• Jim Crow Laws

Northern senators who favored harsh treatment and punishment for the South

Disgusted at the South’s treatment of freedmen and discriminatory Black Codes

Passed 14th Amendment giving African-American citizens full civil rights

• Jim Crow Laws

• Compromise of 1850

• Radical Republicans

• Anaconda Plan

Laws designed to deny newly freed, former slaves of their rights

Denied African-Americans the right to vote, testify against whites in court, or serve on juries

• Compromise of 1850

• Black Codes

• Dawes Act

• Homestead Act

The low point in race relations beginning in the late nineteenth-century United States

Period between Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v. Board of Education

• sharecropping

• Nadir of Race Relations

• debt peonage

• African-American migration

After end of slavery, many plantation owner arranged for their slaves to continue to work their land

Landowners provided a plot of land, tools and a mule in exchange for a large share of the crop

Many sharecroppers were trapped by debt peonage

• sharecropping

• Nadir of Race Relations

• debt peonage

• African-American migration