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1. What is the 13th Amendment? |
Formally abolishing slavery in the United States. Declared that neither slavery nor involuntary servitude except as a punishment for crime. |
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2. What is the 14th Amendment? |
Grants citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States included former slaves who had just been freed after the Civil War. |
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3. What is the 15th Amendment? |
Granted African American men the right to vote. |
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4. What is the Secession? |
To break apart leave the union. |
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5. Who is Jim Crow? |
The name of the racial caste system which in southern states. |
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6. What was Jim Crow's Laws? |
Legalized segregation between blacks and whites. |
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7. what is sharecropping? |
System in which landowners give farm workers land, seed, and tools in return for a part of the crops they raise. |
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8. What is a stereotype? |
Unfair and untrue belief that people have about all people with a particular characteristic. |
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9. What are the Black Codes? |
Were laws passed by Southern States in 1865 and 1866, after the Civil War that restricted African American's freedom, It forced them to work for low wages. |
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10. What is Reconstruction? |
The period of rebuilding that followed the Civil War, during which the defeated Confederate States were readmitted to the Union. |
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11. Who is Robert Edward lee? |
He was Confederated general during the American Civil War. |
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Who was Andrew Johnson? |
He was the 17th president of the United States, serving from 1865 to 1869 |
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13. Who is Abraham Lincoln? |
The 16th president of the United States and he made the Emancipation Proclamation. |
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Who was Ulysses S. Grant? |
The 18th president of the United States. He worked closely with Abraham Lincoln and was commanding Union general in the Civil War. |
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Who was Jefferson Davis? |
The president of the confederate States of America during the Civil War. |
