Reconstruction Amendments/Causes of Civil War

People began to use Jim Crow to describe black people.

The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Dred Scott.

Abraham Lincoln was president of the US during the Civil War.

A poll tax was a fee you paid to vote.

People who wanted to end slavery.

Uncle Tom's Cabin was an essay written that helped reveal the horrors of slavery.

A rebel was a southern soldier.

These were laws passed in the south to deny African Americans rights

The Voting Rights Act of 1965

The goverment must treat people equally is under the 14th amendment. This is called what?

This amendment defined anyone "born or naturalized in the US" as an American citizen.

Suffrage is the right to vote

The 14th Amendment outlined this process - fair procedures by law.

Segregated schools is an example of ...

With the help of northern abolitionists this man sued for his freedom

Jefferson Davis was elected President of the Confederacy.

This law penalized citizens for helping runaway slaves

The idea that the power of a state and its government are created and sustained by the permission of its people.

Separating or breaking away

President Lincoln in 1863 declared all slaves in the South weree free.

He led a rebellion against his slave owner and murdered the owner and owner's family.

This amendment abolished slavery.

A person who is held as property of another person.

This amendment stated no stay may deny a person the right to vote because of race.

The period of rebuilding after the Civil War is called what?

A government pardon

This party formed because they did not want to see the expansion of slavery in the west.

The Northern states were known as the Confederacy during the Civil War.

The southern states leaving the Union began which war from 1861-1865?

As part of the bargain, slave trading would become illegal in Washington D.C. and California would be a free state.

Missouri would be admitted as a slave state, Maine free and no slavery north of the 36'30' line.