Key terms + defenitions

Question 1

Unionist defenition

Answer 1

A person/ soldier in the North who wanted to keep the USA together and abolish slavery

Question 2

Confederate defenition

Answer 2

A person/Soldier in the south who wanted to leave the USA

Question 3

Civil war defenition

Answer 3

A war between citizens of the same country

Question 4

Amendment defenition

Answer 4

Change

Question 5

Reconstruction defenition

Answer 5

Period after the American Civil War where the government focused on protecting the legal rights of black Americans and the reintegration of confederate states 

Question 6

Black codes defenition

Answer 6

Laws to limit the freedom of black Americans and ensure they worked for little money after slavery was abolished during the Civil War

Question 7

W.A.S.P defenition

Answer 7

• White
• Anglo
  -Saxon
  -Protestant

Question 8

Retribution defenition

Answer 8

A punishment as a form of revenge

Question 9

C.O.R.E defenition

Answer 9

Congress for racial equality - A civil rights organisation

Question 10

Lynching defenition

Answer 10

To put to death, usually by hanging. Without legal authority.

Question 11

Jim Crow laws defenition

Answer 11

Laws that made it legal for facilities used by blacks and whites to be kept seperate.