Unit V Vocabulary

the ability for the people to vote on a local or state law

• Popular Sovereignty
• The 15th Amendment
• Jim Crow Laws
• Freedmen’s Bureau

"The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied by the US or any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of slavery"

• Popular Sovereignty
• The 15th Amendment
• Jim Crow Laws
• Freedmen’s Bureau

Helped African Americans adjust to freedom by providing food, clothing, medical services, acquire land, or find work for fair wages

• Popular Sovereignty
• The 15th Amendment
• Jim Crow Laws
• Freedmen’s Bureau

Used fear, violence, and intimidation to deny rights to freed men and women

• Civil War
• Abraham Lincoln
• Total War
• Ku Klux Klan

A war between the North (Union) and South (Confederate)

• Civil War
• Abraham Lincoln
• Total War
• Ku Klux Klan

When the military destroys anything and everything that could help the opposing side

• Civil War
• Abraham Lincoln
• Total War
• Ku Klux Klan

reunited the North and South during the American Civil War and made decisions to free enslaved people

• Civil War

• Abraham Lincoln

• Total War

• Ku Klux Klan

the period following the Civil War, 10 years attempting to rebuild the United States, and help former slaves adjust after slavery

• Secession (secede)
• Border states
• Confederate States of America
• Reconstruction

To separate from or leave the United States

• Secession (secede)
• Border states
• Confederate States of America
• Reconstruction

places that allowed slavery, but sided with the North (Union) during the Civil War

• Secession (secede)

• Border states

• Confederate States of America

• Reconstruction