Emancipation Proclamation, 13th and 15th Amendment Test

What are the exceptions to the Emancipation Proclamation?

1. The Union must win the war. 2. Applies only to the states that had seceded from the Union. 3. Exempted parts of the confederacy that were already under Northern Control

century

100 years

What is an Amendment?

A change or addition to the constitution. Amendments to the Constitution of the United States of America. Articles in addition to, and amendment of, the Constitution of the United States of America, proposed by Congress, and ratified by the several states, pursuant to the Fifth Article of the original Constitution.

grandfather

A clause in registration laws allowing people who do not meet registration requirements to vote if they or their ancestors had voted before 1867.

fourteenth Amendment

A constitutional amendment giving full rights of citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States, except for American Indians

franchise

A special privilege to do certain things that are conferred by government

The Emancipation proclamation also allowed____________

Acceptance of black men into the Army and Navy

What is a Proclamation?

An official announcement

ratified

Approved

bill of rights

In the United States, the Bill of Rights is the first ten amendments to the Constitution. The purpose of the Bill of Rights is to provide specific freedoms to citizens and limit the power of the government.

Emancipation Proclamation was issued on ____________

January 1, 1863

retrospect

Looking back

literacy tests

Method used to deny African-Americans the vote in the South that tested a person's ability to read and write - they were done very unfairly so even though most African-Americans could read and write by the 1950's they still failed.

What did the Fifteenth Amendment do?

Prohibits the government from denying a person's right to vote on the basis of race. It gave African-American men the right to vote.

segregation

Separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences

Another name for the Southern States

The Confederacy

What did the thirteenth Amendment accomplish?

The Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery.

Another Name for the Northern States

The Union states

disenfranchise

To deprive of some privilege or right, especially the right to vote

bill

a formal declaration of the legal and civil rights of the citizens of any state, country, federation, etc. must be voted into law.

abolitionists

people who believed that slavery should be against the law

thwart

prevent; frustrate

proposed

suggested

reconstruction

the period after the Civil War in the United States when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union

deterrents

ways of discouraging people from doing something because of the negative results