Civil War & Reconstruction Vocabulary Quiz

Made by President Lincoln that freed slaves in Confederate states only to not lose support of border states. Military strategy to weaken the South. Expanded Union war goal to include ending slavery.

• Popular Sovereignty

• State's Rights

• Secession

• Emancipation Proclamation 1863

the people have the power to make decisions in their government by voting ex: Kansas-Nebraska Act, California - Free State

• Popular Sovereignty

• State's Rights

• Secession

• Emancipation Proclamation 1863

Differences in opinion on who holds more power (states vs federal government) 10th Amendment, Federalism. Ex: declaring secession, Nullification Crisis, Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Popular Sovereignty

• State's Rights

• Secession

• Emancipation Proclamation 1863

to withdraw (leave) from a membership in a group or an organization Ex. Southern states seceded from the Union after the election of Lincoln.

• Popular Sovereignty

• State's Rights

• Secession

• Emancipation Proclamation 1863

An 1865 amendment to the United States Constitution that abolishes and outlaws the institution of slavery throughout the nation: FREE!!

• Thirteenth Amendment

• Fourteenth Amendment

• Fifteenth Amendment

• Freedmen's Bureau

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude: VOTE!!

• Thirteenth Amendment

• Fourteenth Amendment

• Fifteenth Amendment

• Freedmen's Bureau

A constitutional amendment giving full rights of citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States.It also allowed the federal government to restrict the actions of state governments in the south from limiting Freedmen's rights: CITIZENS!!

• Thirteenth Amendment

• Fourteenth Amendment

• Fifteenth Amendment

• Freedmen's Bureau

Set up by congress to help freed slaves and poor whites in the South after the Civil War by providing food, clothing, medical care, education, job training.

• Thirteenth Amendment

• Fourteenth Amendment

• Fifteenth Amendment

• Freedmen's Bureau

program implemented by the federal government between 1865 and 1877 to repair damage to the South caused by the Civil War and restore the southern states to the Union.

• Sharecropper

• Reconstruction

• Black Codes

• Ku Klux Klan

laws that restricted African Americans' rights and opportunities in the South to go against Reconstruction.

• Sharecropper

• Reconstruction

• Black Codes

• Ku Klux Klan