Civil War and Reconstruction Intro words

16th President of the U.S.; Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Army (Federal Army) against the Confederate Army during the Civil War

• Andrew Johnson

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Abraham Lincoln

• 13th Amendment

Fought against the Confederate Army during the Civil War

• Black Codes

• U.S. Army

• Enslaved People

• Radical Republicans

The main cause of the Civil War; states' rights to own enslaved people was the reason for leaving given in statements from seceding states

• Black Codes

• Emancipation Proclamation

• economy

• slavery

People who worked on farms and plantations for no pay; they or their ancestors were kidnapped and taken to the Americas beginning in 1619.

• Enslaved people

• Abraham Lincoln

• economy

• carpetbagger

A war between people of the same country; the American one lasted from 1860-1865

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Civil War

• Black Codes

• 13th Amendment

The time between 1865-1877 when the southern states' economy and society were supposed to be rebuilt and rejoined to America.

• Reconstruction

• Civil War

• Radical Republicans

• 14th Amendment

Deals with the money and resources of people, businesses, and governments

• Carpetbagger

• Slavery

• Radical Republicans

• Economy

Issued by Lincoln in 1862, this freed all enslaved people in areas still at war with the United States.

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Black Codes

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

This ended slavery, except for felonies, in the U.S. and all its territories

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• Black Codes

This says that all people born in the U.S. are citizens and are guaranteed equal protection under the law.

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• Black Codes