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Which Amendment states all former slaves are citizens of the US and have equal protection?

1. Which Amendment states all former slaves are citizens of the US and have equal protection? The 14th. 2. Summarize the 15th Amendment. The right to vote can’t be denied because of race. 3. What did the 13th Amendment do? Outlaw slavery. 4. What was the Ku Klux Klan?

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Which Amendment states all former slaves are citizens of the US and have equal protection?

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  1. 1 • Which Amendment states all former slaves are citizens of the US and have equal protection? • The 14th

  2. 2 • Summarize the 15th Amendment. • The right to vote can’t be denied because of race

  3. 3 • What did the 13th Amendment do? • Outlaw slavery

  4. 4 • What was the Ku Klux Klan? • A terrifying secret society that often killed African-Americans in the South

  5. 5 • What were carpetbaggers? • Northerners who moved south and supported Republicans during Reconstruction

  6. 6 • What is Reconstruction? • Rebuilding of the South after the Civil War

  7. 7 • What did John Wilkes Booth do? • Assassinated Abraham Lincoln

  8. 8 • When did Abraham Lincoln die? • 7:22AM April 15, 1865

  9. 9 • Where did the Civil War end? • Appomattox Court House

  10. 10 • Who was freed by the Emancipation Proclamation? • Slaves in the Confederacy that Union soldiers could reach

  11. 11 • What fort did the 54th Massachusetts almost capture in South Carolina? • Fort Wagoner

  12. 12 • Which battle was fought on the bloodiest day in American history? • Antietam

  13. 13 • What was the largest cause of death during the Civil War? • Disease

  14. 14 • What was King Cotton? • The Confederacy’s strategy to withhold cotton from the world market in exchange for help from France and Britain

  15. 15 • Where were the first shots of the Civil War fired? • Fort Sumter, SC

  16. 16 • What were border states? • Union slave states that bordered Confederate states

  17. 17 • What is sectionalism? • Loyalty to a region or section of the country instead of the nation as a whole

  18. 18 • What did Jefferson Davis become president of in 1861? • Confederate States of America (The Confederacy)

  19. 19 • What city was the capital of the Confederacy? • Richmond, VA

  20. 20 • What was the population of the North and South at the start of the Civil War? • North had 22 million • South had 9 million

  21. 21 • What belief united the Confederate states before the Civil War but divided them during it? • States’ rights

  22. 22 • Which state seceded from the Union first? • South Carolina

  23. 23 • How did the Dred Scott Case affect slavery? • Judge Taney ruled that slavery was protected by the Constitution

  24. 24 • Explain “Bleeding Kansas”. • The deadly aftermath of the unfair election of a pro-slavery government in anti-slavery Kansas

  25. 25 • How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act decide slavery? • Popular sovereignty (voting) in the territory

  26. 26 • What book published in 1852 became popular in the North and falsely criticized in the South? • Uncle Tom’s Cabin

  27. 27 • How many free and slave states would exist after California was admitted to the Union? • 14 free states • 13 slave states

  28. 28 • What two (2) things did Harriet Tubman do to make Southerners offer a $40,000 reward for her capture? • Went into the south 19 times • Helped rescue 300 slaves

  29. 29 • What was the Underground Railroad? • An aboveground series of escape routes for runaway slaves from the South to the North

  30. 30 • What are three (3) ways Frederick Douglass helped the abolitionist cause. • Published autobiography • Spoke • Became a conductor on the Underground Railroad

  31. 31 • Who published The Liberator? • William Lloyd Garrison

  32. 32 • What were people who were a part of the movement to end slavery called? • Abolitionists

  33. 33 • What was the result of the Missouri Compromise? • Balance of power between free and slave states

  34. 34 • What is suffrage? • The right to vote

  35. 35 • Why was the Seneca Falls Convention held? • To discuss women’s rights

  36. 36 • How would immigrants help industry? • Immigrants worked in factories, they supplied a work force

  37. 37 • How many people were killed by the Irish Potato Famine? • 1 million

  38. 38 • What were three (3) push factors that made immigrants leave their homeland? • Overcrowding • Religious/political problems • Famine

  39. 39 • What are three (3) pull factors that drew immigrants to the US? • Freedom • Economic opportunity • Land

  40. 40 • Who invented the cotton gin? • Eli Whitney

  41. 41 • Define urban. • Living in the city

  42. 42 • Define rural. • Living on a farm

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