front 1 Reconstruction | back 1 the time after the Civil War in the United States when the country was rebuilding |
front 2 Civil War | back 2 The War fought between the American North and South (the Union vs the Confederacy). The North (the Union) won. 750,000 people died. 1861 - 1865. |
front 3 Abraham Lincoln | back 3 16th president of the United States. Led the North (the Union) through the Civil War. |
front 4 Secession | back 4 The act of breaking away from your country. |
front 5 Emancipation Proclamation | back 5 Speech given by Abraham Lincoln. Freed all the slaves in the South. |
front 6 13th Amendment | back 6 Totally abolishes (gets rid of) slavery in the United States. |
front 7 14th Amendment | back 7 Gave black Americans citizenship in the United States. |
front 8 15th Amendment | back 8 Gave black American males the right to vote in the United States. |
front 9 Sharecropper | back 9 Former slaves and poor whites in the South worked on land owned by someone else. They got to keep some of the crops and had to give the rest to the landowner. |
front 10 Plessy v Ferguson | back 10 "Separate but equal". Allowed states to segregate (divide) services to black and white Americans as long as the services were "equal". |