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Civil War
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 14th Amendment | citizenship and promised equal legal protection to former slaves. |
| Reconstruction | the period of dealing with the Southern states and the legal status of former slaves after the Civil War ended |
| Reconstruction Act of 1867 | divided the South into Military district to protect to enforce policies and actively register voters |
| Enforcement Acts | were put into place after the violence erupted from the KKK |
| sharecropping system | was set up to provide a labor force for the plantation owners |
| Jim Crow laws | reduced the effectiveness of the 14 and 15th amendment |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | supreme court ruling that created "separate but equal" |
| Dred Scott v. Sanford | supreme court ruling that set up the need for the citizenship amendments |
| Scalawag | A white southerner who supported Reconstruction |
| Civil War | began to preserve the Union |
| Kansas Nebraska Act | created conflict in Nebraska because people wanted to set up anti-slavery majority |
| whether the United States should annex Canada (owned by Britain) | divided Republicans during Reconstruction, since Britain sold warships to the Confederacy |
| Freedmen's Bureau | extended opportunities for formerly enslaved African Americans during Reconstruction. |
| Radical Republicans | offered protections for formerly enslaved African Americans during Reconstruction. |
| Black Codes | prohibited freedmen from traveling freely, serving on juries or exercising civil rights |
| Jim Crow laws | created and required racial segregation. |
| "A house divided against can not stand" | Conflict over slavery's expansion |
| Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction policies | allowing Southern states to reorganize governments relatively quickly |
| John Brown's Raid (1859) | tried to create a slave revolt on Harpers Ferry |
| Election of Abraham Lincoln (1860) | create major tension in the South and caused some states to begin succession |