Module 1 Lessons 5, 6, 7

3. Ratified in 1865, the amendment stated “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States”
4. Supreme court case whose ruling stated that non-citizens (slaves) could not sue in federal court
8. a system in which landowners divided their land and assigned each head of household a few acres of land along with seeds and tools
9. General of Confederate army who drove McClellan away from the confederate capital of Richmond
13. Prevented states from denying rights and privileges to any US citizen. This amendment overruled the Dred Scott decision.
14. The most notorious and widespread southern vigilante group that used violence to intimidate African Americans
15. General of the Union Army

1. Issued by President lincoln, it stated that all slaves in areas currently under rebellion would be freed immediately
2. The period during which the United States began to rebuild after the Civil War, lasting from 1865 to 1877
5. Bureau that assisted formers slaves and poor whites in the South by distributing clothing and food
6. Ratified in 1870, this amendment stated that no one can be kept from voting because of “race, color, or previous condition of servitude”
7. The Confederate States of America, formed from states that seceded from the Union
10. A minority of Republicans in Congress who wanted to destroy the political power of former slaveholders
11. The president who succeeded Abraham Lincoln and oversaw much of Reconstruction
12. Laws that severely restricted African Americans’ lives