Civil War & Reconstruction

Congress imposed __________ ______________ measures because of the enactment of __________ _______ by Southern legislatures, the outbreak of race riots in NOLA and Memphis, election of former Confederate leaders to Congress, & the negative response by southern legislatures to the 14th amendments.

Radical Reconstruction, Black Codes

Freedmen in the decade following the Civil War saw a majority enter ______________ sharecropping arrangements with former masters or other nearby planters.

Sharecropping

When the Emancipation Proclamation was issued at the beginning of 1863, its immediate effect was to...?

Strengthen the moral cause of the Union (no slaves freed in the border states or the Union, only the Confederacy).

A serious constitutional question after the Civil War was...?

The political & legal status of former Confederate states.

Reason for War

To preserve the Union

African American _________ soldiers during the Civil War were paid less than White soldiers of the same rank.

Union