popular sovereignty
secession
Confederacy
Emancipation
disenfranchisement
Reconstruction
ratify
sectionalism
radical
Freedman’s Bureau
black codes
rebel
abolition
sharecropper
blockade

1. The United States government began allowing some of the new territories to decide if they would have slavery using a system of Reconstruction.
2. This occurred because of growing secession that divided the nation on the issue of slavery.
3. In the North, there were many people who supported _____________________________________ because they believed that slavery was immoral.
4. After the election of President Lincoln in 1860 the state of South Carolina started a wave of _____________________________________.
5. Soon the states that had seceded formed a nation known as the _____________________________________.
6. However, the United States did not see them as a separate nation but as _____________________________________ states that needed to be reunited with the North at all costs.
7. The Union Army devised a plan to _____________________________________ the southern coast before splitting it in half at the Mississippi River and then attacking the Confederate Capital.
8. Lincoln also attempted to restore order by threatening to end slavery if the Southern states did not surrender. When they refused he issued the _____________________________________ Proclamation to free the slaves in rebelling territory.
9. When the war finally ended a period of _____________________________________ began in the South.
10. Despite the different opinions on how to rebuild the South it was clear that each state would have to re-write and _____________________________________ new constitutions.
11. At this time Congress had many _____________________________________ Republicans that helped push the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments through to ensure equal rights and citizenship.
12. They also tried to help the former slaves by creating an organization known as the _____________________________________.
13. However, Reconstruction could not prevent racism from entering the southern law books in the form of _____________________________________.
14. Furthermore, many African Americans in the south felt economically trapped by the system of _____________________________________ that developed and left them financially tied to the land they worked.
15. The end of Reconstruction marked the end of slavery in the south but the beginning of Freedmans Bureau because African Americans felt they could not safely or simply exercise their freedoms.