Reconstruction

Abraham Lincoln's decree (law) that abolished slavery in the Confederate states.

• Freedmen's Bureau

• States Rights

• Tariff

• Emancipation Proclamation

Tax on imported goods from other countries.

• Tariff

• Abolitionist

• Union

• States Rights

Government organization created to provide freed slaves food, shelter, medicine, and schools.

• Blockade

• Tariff

• Freemen's Bureau

• Sectionalism

Amendment that gave citizenship to all people born in the United States, including former slaves.

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• 16th

Rebuilding time for the United States after the Civil War

• Rebuild

• Reconstruction

• Redo

• Restart

The president of the United States during the Civil War

• Sam Houston

• Jefferson Davis

• Abraham Lincoln

• Robert E. Lee

Withdraw or leave another country or territory.

• Democracy

• States Rights

• Sectionalism

• Secede

Amendment that gave African American men the right to vote.

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• 16th

Power reserved for the states rather than the national government.

• Democracy

• States Rights

• Sectionalism

• Secede

Laws passed in southern states that encouraged segregation (separation) of races. The laws limited the rights of African Americans.

• Secede

• Blockade

• Slave Laws

• Jim Crow Laws