Intro to Civil War

A common name for the southern states that left the U.S. to form their own country.

• Commonwealth

• Union

• Confederacy

• Federation

When part of a country leaves and forms their own country.

• amend

• ratify

• segregate

• secede

Freeing an enslaved person.

• constitution

• emancipation

• amendment

• due process

The amendment that ended enslavement in the United States.

• 12th amendment

• 13th amendment

• 14th amendment

• 15th amendment

This amendment guaranteed African Americans freedom from slavery.

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• 16th

Which is the best description of Reconstruction?

• rebuilding the US after a big earthquake

• a period of rebuilding in the US after the Revolutionary War

• a period of rebuilding in the Southern US after the Civil War

• unfair treatment of African Americans after the Civil War

The 13th Amendment ...

• Freed the Slaves

• grants voting rights

• grants citizenship and equal protection

• restores Confederate rights

Southern states created the Black Codes to do what?

• limit African Americans rights

• expand Confederate rights

• give women voting rights

• jail Carpetbaggers

Scalawags were...

• Northerners who took advantage of southern economic hardships 

• Southern Republicans

• former Confederate Leaders

• African Americans

To break away for your own independence.

• Immigrants

• Secede

• Proclamation

• Frontier