Untitled Deck Flashcards
Abolitionists
A person who works to end or get rid of something especially slavery.
Amendment
A change or improvement
Assassinate
To murder someone famous or powerful, usually for political reasons.
Black codes
A group of laws passed in the late 1800s that denied African American men the right to vote, own guns, or take certain jobs.
Blockade
A barrier of troops or ships to keep people and supplies from moving in and out of an area.
Carpetbaggers
Northerners who went to the South after the Civil War to start businesses and make money.
Confederacy
Together, the Southern states that left the United States and formed their own nation.
Emancipation
The freeing of a group from slavery.
Proclamation
An official announcement.
Enlist
To join the military.
Impeachment
The process of charging a high public official, such as the President, with a crime.
Juneteenth
The celebration of the day when enslaved African Americans were freed during the Civil War.
Plantation
A large farm, especially in the southern United States, that usually grows one kind of crop.
Reconstruction
The period when laws were passed that sought to rebuild and heal the northern and southern regions of the United States after the Civil War.
Secession
The separation of a state from a nation.
