Battles
People
Reconstruction
Government Acts
Grab Bag
100
This was the name of the battle that started the Civil War.
What is Ft. Sumter?
100
This president oversaw most of the early reconstruction policies despite being racist towards African Americans.
Who was Andrew Johnson?
100
These were laws that were put into place to restrict African Americans from doing routine, daily tasks, without discrimination in the south.
What are black codes/Jim Crow laws?
100
This amendment gave men of all races the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
100
This is the term that describes what happens when our nation was divided in two and you believe what others in your region of the country believe in.
What is sectionalism?
200
This is the location where General Lee surrendered to General Grant.
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
200
This is the name of the person who assassinated Abraham Lincoln.
Who was John Wilkes Booth?
200
This is the name of the bureau that was designed to help African Americans (and other people) get back on their feet after the Civil War.
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
200
This amendment freed the slaves.
What is the 13th Amendment?
200
This was the bloodiest single-day battle with over 21,000 casualties.
What is Antietam?
300
This is the largest battle in the Civil War, the last time the South attacked the North, and where Lincoln made a big speech.
What is Gettysburg?
300
This is the name Civil War hero that defeated Andrew Johnson in the election of 1868.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
300
This is the activity that most African Americans in the south did for work after the Civil War.
What is sharecropping?
300
This is the the name of the acts that were created to protect African American's right to vote and protect African Americans from violence.
What is the Enforcement Act?
300
This is the name of the political party that took control of Congress after the southerners gained the right to vote.
What are the democrats?
400
This is the battle that helped the North maintain control of the Mississippi River and stopped the South from going West.
What is Vicksburg?
400
This is the name of the Pennsylvania Congressman and Radical Republican that openly challenged Andrew Johnson in his beliefs of Reconstruction.
Who was Thaddeus Stevens?
400
This is the lasting impact of the Freedman's Bureau for black people in America.
What are educational opportunities?
400
What was the name of the act that officially ends Reconstruction in the south?
What is the Compromise of 1877?
400
The House voted for it, the Senate didn't pass it by one vote. It is what happened to Andrew Johnson.
What is impeachment?
500
This is the battle that was won by the Confederates but lost in the long run as "Stonewall" Jackson was shot by his own men.
What is Chancellorsville?
500
This is the name of the famous Civil War general that led a "March to the Sea" to surround the south by using total warfare.
Who is William T. Sherman?
500
These are TWO of the ways that African American males were prevented from submitting their vote.
What are poll taxes, literacy test, and the Grandfather Clause?
500
This is the act that allowed southern men to vote, even if they supported secession and fought against the Union.
What is the Amnesty Act of 1872?
500
This is the number of African Americans elected to office between 1870 and 1877.
What is 17?
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