8th Grade - Unit 6 Vocabulary

What is the law requiring men to serve in the military, used by both Union and Confederacy during the war?

• Draft

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Homestead Act

• Monroe Doctrine

What is the term for the following definition? Constitutional amendment abolishing (ending) slavery in the United States (1865).

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 12th Amendment

What is the term for the following definition? Laws passed in the South to restrict the freedoms of freed Black people after the Civil War.

• Black Codes

• Jim Crow Laws

• Reconstruction Acts

• Emancipation Proclamation

What is the term for the following definition? The Ku Klux Klan, a white supremacist group opposing Black civil rights during Reconstruction.

• KKK

• NAACP

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Black Panthers

What is the term for a pardon granted to former Confederates to restore their citizenship and rights?

• Amnesty

• Reconstruction

• Secession

• Emancipation

What is the term for the following definition? Prohibited denying the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

• 15th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

• 13th Amendment

What term is defined as 'Laws allowing people to vote only if their grandfathers had voted, used to discriminate against Black voters.'?

• Grandfather Clauses

• Poll Taxes

• Literacy Tests

• Jim Crow Laws

What is the term for the following definition? Slave states that remained loyal to the Union during the Civil War (e.g., Kentucky, ...).

• Border States

• Confederate States

• Union Territories

• Free States

What is the term for the southern states that seceded and fought against the Union in the Civil War?

• Confederacy/Rebels

• Union/Yankees

• Allies

• Patriots

What is the name of the group in Congress that pushed for harsh Reconstruction and full rights for freedmen?

• Radical Republicans

• Southern Democrats

• Whigs

• Copperheads