Amnesty is the rebuilding of the South’s government and society after the end of the Civil War

The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guaranteed citizenship to all African Americans, and equal protection under the law.

After the Civil War most former slaves continued to farm land owned by whites southerners.

The Compromise of 1820 ended the military occupation of the South in return for the southern Democrats agreement to accept Rutherford B. Hayes as President.

President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.

The Civil Rights Act of 1866 was passed in order to prevent southern states from issuing Black Codes.

The first state to secede the United States was Kentucky.

The president of the United States during the Civil War was Jefferson Davis.

Slaveholding states that did not join the Confederacy during the Civil War were called border states.

The deadliest battle fought in the Civil War occurred at the Battle of Gettysburg.

People who wanted to end slavery were called abolitionists.

Henry David Thoreau displayed “civil disobedience” by bombing the Massachusetts State Capital Building.

Gone With the Wind was a novel that portrayed the cruelties of slavery and encouraged many to support the anti-slavery cause.

Abraham Lincoln was the first Republican president of the United States.

Transcendentalist was the name of the group of people who traveled westward to settle and focus on converting Native Americans to Christianity?

The Trail of Tears started in Independence, Missouri,  was approximately 2000 miles long, and took approximately 6 months to travel.

The name of the pioneer party who faced an unexpected snow fall in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, that eventually led them to resort to cannibalism to survive was the Donner Party.

President Andrew Jackson hoped to relocate Native Americans to "Indian Territory", which was located in the modern-day state of Oklahoma.

In 1838 thousands of Cherokee people died of disease and exposure to harsh weather while traveling on the Cherokee Death March.

Separation of Powers is the term given to the practice of dividing power among the the three branches of government in the United States.

The Preamble is a list of the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution that outlines the freedoms and protections of all United States citizens from the government.