https://padlet.com/damiengeorge3063/ijkoznpdpu7x en-us 2016-11-14 00:03:19 UTC 2025-11-28 12:33:14 UTC hello@padlet.com damiengeorge3063 https://padlet.com/damiengeorge3063/ijkoznpdpu7x/wish/137241544 The Union is sometimes referred to as "the North," both then and now, as opposed to the Confederacy, which was "the South." The Union never recognized the legitimacy of the Confederacy's secession and maintained at all times that it remained entirely a part of the United States of America. In foreign affairs the Union was the only side recognized by all other nations, none of which officially recognized the Confederate government

]]> 2016-11-14 00:16:01 UTC https://padlet.com/damiengeorge3063/ijkoznpdpu7x/wish/137241544 damiengeorge3063 https://padlet.com/damiengeorge3063/ijkoznpdpu7x/wish/137241788 The Confederate States of America; the government formed in 1861 by southern states that proclaimed their secession from the United States. Jefferson Davis was its president. The Confederacy was dissolved after the Civil War.]]> 2016-11-14 00:19:35 UTC https://padlet.com/damiengeorge3063/ijkoznpdpu7x/wish/137241788 damiengeorge3063 https://padlet.com/damiengeorge3063/ijkoznpdpu7x/wish/137241819 phrase frequently used by Southern politicians and authors prior to the American Civil War, indicating the economic and political importance of cotton production. After the invention of the cotton gin (1793), cotton surpassed tobacco as the dominant cash crop in the agricultural economy of the South, soon comprising more than half the total U.S. exports.

]]> 2016-11-14 00:19:58 UTC https://padlet.com/damiengeorge3063/ijkoznpdpu7x/wish/137241819 damiengeorge3063 https://padlet.com/damiengeorge3063/ijkoznpdpu7x/wish/137242349 is the name applied to an outline strategy for suppressing the Confederacy at the beginning of the American Civil War. Proposed by General-in-Chief Winfield Scott, the plan emphasized the blockade of the Southern ports, and called for an advance down the Mississippi River to cut the South in two.]]> 2016-11-14 00:26:02 UTC https://padlet.com/damiengeorge3063/ijkoznpdpu7x/wish/137242349 damiengeorge3063 https://padlet.com/damiengeorge3063/ijkoznpdpu7x/wish/137242583 A proclamation made by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863 that all slaves under the Confederacy were from then on “forever free.”]]> 2016-11-14 00:28:43 UTC https://padlet.com/damiengeorge3063/ijkoznpdpu7x/wish/137242583 damiengeorge3063 https://padlet.com/damiengeorge3063/ijkoznpdpu7x/wish/137242705 was called the Reconstruction period. Abraham Lincoln started planning for the reconstruction of the South during the Civil War as Union soldiers occupied huge areas of the South.

]]> 2016-11-14 00:30:17 UTC https://padlet.com/damiengeorge3063/ijkoznpdpu7x/wish/137242705 damiengeorge3063 https://padlet.com/damiengeorge3063/ijkoznpdpu7x/wish/137242898 were laws passed by Southern states in 1865 and 1866, after the Civil War. These laws had the intent and the effect of restricting African Americans' freedom, and of compelling them to work in a labor economy based on low wages or debt.]]> 2016-11-14 00:32:49 UTC https://padlet.com/damiengeorge3063/ijkoznpdpu7x/wish/137242898 damiengeorge3063 https://padlet.com/damiengeorge3063/ijkoznpdpu7x/wish/137243141 The U.S. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, popularly known as the Freedmen’s Bureau, was established in 1865 by Congress to help former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the U.S. Civil War (1861-65). Some 4 million slaves gained their freedom as a result of the Union victory in the war, which left many communities in ruins and destroyed the South’s plantation-based economy.]]> 2016-11-14 00:35:48 UTC https://padlet.com/damiengeorge3063/ijkoznpdpu7x/wish/137243141 damiengeorge3063 https://padlet.com/damiengeorge3063/ijkoznpdpu7x/wish/137254042 Passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified on December 6, 1865, the 13th amendment abolished slavery in the United States. The 13th amendment, which formally abolished slavery in the United States, passed the Senate on April 8, 1864, and the House on January 31, 1865.]]> 2016-11-14 02:30:34 UTC https://padlet.com/damiengeorge3063/ijkoznpdpu7x/wish/137254042 damiengeorge3063 https://padlet.com/damiengeorge3063/ijkoznpdpu7x/wish/137255380 The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments. The amendment addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws, and was proposed in response to issues related to former slaves following the American Civil War.]]> 2016-11-14 02:47:33 UTC https://padlet.com/damiengeorge3063/ijkoznpdpu7x/wish/137255380 damiengeorge3063 https://padlet.com/damiengeorge3063/ijkoznpdpu7x/wish/137255586 The 15th Amendment, granting African-American men the right to vote, was formally adopted into the U.S. Constitution on March 30, 1870. Passed by Congress the year before, the amendment reads: “the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” Despite the amendment, by the late 1870s, various discriminatory practices were used to prevent African Americans from exercising their right to vote, especially in the South.]]> 2016-11-14 02:49:49 UTC https://padlet.com/damiengeorge3063/ijkoznpdpu7x/wish/137255586 damiengeorge3063 https://padlet.com/damiengeorge3063/ijkoznpdpu7x/wish/137255902 With the Radical Republicans fully in control of Congress after the mid-term elections of 1866, they quickly passed the Military Reconstruction Acts of 1867. These acts divided the south into five military districts.]]> 2016-11-14 02:54:31 UTC https://padlet.com/damiengeorge3063/ijkoznpdpu7x/wish/137255902 damiengeorge3063 https://padlet.com/damiengeorge3063/ijkoznpdpu7x/wish/137256183 refers to Northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War, during Reconstruction. Many carpetbaggers were said to have moved South for their own financial and political gains. Scalawags were white Southerners who cooperated politically with black freedmen and Northern newcomers.]]> 2016-11-14 02:58:44 UTC https://padlet.com/damiengeorge3063/ijkoznpdpu7x/wish/137256183 damiengeorge3063 https://padlet.com/damiengeorge3063/ijkoznpdpu7x/wish/137256518 The term "carpetbaggers" refers to Northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War, during Reconstruction. Many carpetbaggers were said to have moved South for their own financial and political gains. Scalawags were white Southerners who cooperated politically with black freedmen and Northern newcomers.]]> 2016-11-14 03:02:47 UTC https://padlet.com/damiengeorge3063/ijkoznpdpu7x/wish/137256518 damiengeorge3063 https://padlet.com/damiengeorge3063/ijkoznpdpu7x/wish/137256672 Sharecropping is a form of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on their portion of land. Sharecropping has a long history and there are a wide range of different situations and types of agreements that have used a form of the system.]]> 2016-11-14 03:04:25 UTC https://padlet.com/damiengeorge3063/ijkoznpdpu7x/wish/137256672 damiengeorge3063 https://padlet.com/damiengeorge3063/ijkoznpdpu7x/wish/137256976 Jim Crow law, in U.S. history, any of the laws that enforced racial segregation in the South between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and the beginning of the civil rights movement in the 1950s]]> 2016-11-14 03:08:27 UTC https://padlet.com/damiengeorge3063/ijkoznpdpu7x/wish/137256976 damiengeorge3063 https://padlet.com/damiengeorge3063/ijkoznpdpu7x/wish/137257353 A poll tax is a tax levied as a prerequisite for voting. After Reconstruction (1865–1877)—the twelve-year period of rebuilding that followed the American Civil War (1861–1865)—many southern states passed poll taxes in an effort to keep African Americans from voting.]]> 2016-11-14 03:12:59 UTC https://padlet.com/damiengeorge3063/ijkoznpdpu7x/wish/137257353 damiengeorge3063 https://padlet.com/damiengeorge3063/ijkoznpdpu7x/wish/137257505 Southern state legislatures employed literacy tests as part of the voter registration process starting in the late 19th century. Literacy tests, along with poll taxes and extra-legal intimidation, were used to deny suffrage to African Americans.]]> 2016-11-14 03:14:38 UTC https://padlet.com/damiengeorge3063/ijkoznpdpu7x/wish/137257505 damiengeorge3063 https://padlet.com/damiengeorge3063/ijkoznpdpu7x/wish/137257617 Grandfather Clause, The (1898–1915) The Grandfather Clause was a statute enacted by many American southern states in the wake of Reconstruction (1865-1877) that allowed potential white voters to circumvent literacy tests, poll taxes, and other tactics designed to disenfranchise southern blacks.]]> 2016-11-14 03:15:48 UTC https://padlet.com/damiengeorge3063/ijkoznpdpu7x/wish/137257617 damiengeorge3063 https://padlet.com/damiengeorge3063/ijkoznpdpu7x/wish/137257751 Washington was from the last generation of black American leaders born into slavery and became the leading voice of the former slaves and their descendants. They were newly oppressed in the South by disenfranchisement and the Jim Crow discriminatory laws enacted in the post-Reconstruction Southern states in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.]]> 2016-11-14 03:17:32 UTC https://padlet.com/damiengeorge3063/ijkoznpdpu7x/wish/137257751 damiengeorge3063 https://padlet.com/damiengeorge3063/ijkoznpdpu7x/wish/137257929 Du Bois rose to national prominence as the leader of the Niagara Movement, a group of African-American activists who wanted equal rights for blacks. Du Bois and his supporters opposed the Atlanta compromise, an agreement crafted by Booker T. Washington which provided that Southern blacks would work and submit to white political rule, while Southern whites guaranteed that blacks would receive basic educational and economic opportunities.]]> 2016-11-14 03:19:36 UTC https://padlet.com/damiengeorge3063/ijkoznpdpu7x/wish/137257929