US History - Lesson 1 Vocabulary - Civil War & Reconstruction

Created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska with the initial purpose being to open up many thousands of new farms

A period in US history lasting from 1865-1877 after the Civil War in which African-Americans were granted new freedoms

states that everyone born or naturalized in the USA is a citizen & is entitled to equal protection under the law

An executive order made by President Lincoln freeing all slaves in states engaged in rebellion against the Union (USA)

When a tenant farmer gives a part of their harvest (2/3's) as rent to the landowner leaving no $ leftover to pay bills

A person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from Reconstruction

A package of five bills passed by the US Congress making California a free state & strengthening the Fugitive Slave Act

An agreement between pro-slavery & anti-slavery groups in Congress. It helped keep a balance of free & slave states

A US Supreme Court decision that stated the US Constitution was not meant to include citizenship for African Americans

a group formed in 1866 who wanted to stop Reconstruction & drive blacks from the voting booths & back to the fields

The right of US citizens to vote shall not be denied or abridged by anyone on account of race, color, or religion.

The action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body, especially a political state.

A white Southerner who collaborated with northern Republicans during Reconstruction, often for personal profit.

Landmark federal legislation that prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex & national origin

Part of the War Dept set up in 1865 to assist freed slaves in obtaining relief, land, jobs, fair treatment, & education

The practice of holding persons in servitude or partial slavery, so as to work off a debt or to serve a penal sentence.

Forbids involuntary servitude and Slavery, except where it is imposed on an individual as punishment for a crime