Civil War and Reconstruction

The act of killing someone for political reasons.

To leave or break away from a country.

Amendment to the Constitution stating that a person can't be kept from voting because of race.

Statement made by President Lincoln which said that all enslaved people in the U. S. were free.

Laws created in the South during Reconstruction that discriminated against freed slaves.

Group of secret roads and safe houses that slaves used to escape slavery and gain their freedom

A person who wanted to stop the practice of slavery in the United States.

Agreement among states that any new states located north of the compromise line would be free.

Government action of 1854 that said that each state could vote whether or not to allow slavery

Period in U. S. history between 1865 and 1877 which the South was rebuilt and restored.

1863 speech given by Lincoln at the site of the Battle of Gettysburg.

Laws created and passed in the Southern states after Reconstruction that created segregation.

Amendment to the U.S. Constitution which abolished slavery.

Amendment to the Constitution that granted citizenship to all former slaves.

The business of forcing Africans to the colonies in North American and South America to work.