Week 3 Vocab

4. states of America, states that still used enslavement
5. gin, a machine that separates the cotton fibers from its seeds
7. amendment, abolished slavery
8. loncoln, sixteenth president of the united states
11. removal of the official in office
13. a person who favors the abolition of a practice
15. sovereignty, a document that held that individual states should decide whether slavery was to be permited
18. davis, president of confederate states of America during civil war
19. jure segregation, system that provides separate faculties for minority groups

1. the transformation of the united states after the civil war
2. bureau, government agency to aid freedmen
3. amendment, equal rights and protection for former slaves
6. crow laws, state and local laws that enforced racial segregation
9. republican, faction of American politition within the second republican party
10. amendment, stops government from denying citizenship and right to vote based off race
12. of 1850, a package of five separate bills
14. klux klan, anti immigration group
16. Johnson, seventeenth president of the united states
17. scott v samford, a landmark decision that said any African could not be a American citizen