South Carolina History: Civil War Reconstruction and Progressive Era

The president of the United States during the Civil War

• Abraham Lincoln

• Sam Houston

• Jefferson Davis

• Robert E. Lee

Power reserved for the states rather than the national government.

• Democracy

• States Rights

• Sectionalism

• Secede

Withdraw or leave another country or territory.

• Democracy

• States Rights

• Sectionalism

• Secede

Southern states that seceded from the U.S. to keep their slaves.

• Union

• Confederacy

• Republic

• Freedmen's Bureau

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

• Freedmen's Bureau

• States Rights

• Tariff

• Emancipation Proclamation

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

• Blockade

• Tariff

• Freemen's Bureau

• Sectionalism

Amendment that freed the slaves.

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• 16th

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

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• 16th

Amendment that gave African American men the right to vote.

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• 16th

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