Events that led to Secession
This was the name of one of the main conductors on the Underground Railroad:
Who was Harriet Tubman?
This was the name for the Northern States during the American Civil War.
What was the Union?
This was the name for the group of congressmen who wanted to punish the Southern States before reintegrating them back into the Union.
Who were the Radical Republicans?
The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments were commonly known as:
What were the Reconstruction Amendments?
This was the name of the Government Agency created by the Radical Republicans to help freed men and women in the Southern States during Reconstruction:
What was the Freedmens' Bureau?
This was the compromise that maintained the balance of free and slave States in the United States:
What was the Compromise of 1820?
These were the names for the general of the Confederate Army and the general for the Union Army:
Who was Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant?
What was TWO reasons why Andrew Johnson was impeached by Congress during the Reconstruction Era?
What did the 14th Amendment do during Reconstruction?
What was granting all people born in the U.S. citizenship?
This paramilitary and terrorist group was created in response to combating Reconstruction in the Southern States:
What was the Ku Klux Klan?
This was the name of a government act that proposed "popular sovereignty" to new states created in the Kansas-Nebraska territories.
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Name THREE advantages that the Union had over the Confederacy during the American Civil War:
What were more factories, more railroads, larger population, more states, and a larger navy?
In what ways were Abraham Lincoln's and Andrew Johnson's plans for Reconstruction similiar to each other?
Both plans favored a swift, lenient restoration of Southern states to the Union rather than a harsh punishment and both of their plans conflicted with Congress.
What were literacy tests, poll taxes, segregation?
Identify THREE ways how the Southern States found ways to deny rights to African Americans during the Jim Crow Era:
What was segregation, literacy tests, poll taxes, racial terrorism and violence, etc.
This is name of the famous abolitionist who was responsible for the events of "Bleeding Kansas" and the munitions raid on Harper's Ferry:
Who was John Brown?
What was the Battle of Antietam?
Identify THREE major parts of the Radical Republicans' plans for Reconstruction:
What was breaking the Southern States into five military districts, sending Union soldiers south to maintain the peace and follow the laws, and demanding the Southern states support the 14th and 15th Amendments?
The 14th Amendment counteracted (went against) the ruling of what major Supreme Court Case in the United States in the year 1857?
What was the Dred Scott Decision?
Who was Rutherford B. Hayes?
Abraham Lincoln beat this Southern opponent in the Election of 1860, which was the main reason why the Southern States seceded from the Union.
Who was Stephen Douglas?
This was Abraham Lincoln's primary goal during the Civil War. (Hint, it was NOT to end slavery!)
What is to "Preserve the Union of our country?"
What was the MAIN reason why the Wade-Davis Bill was approved by Congress but never became an actual law at the end of the American Civil War?
What was because President Lincoln vetoed it before he was killed in office?
What were THREE reasons why the 13th Amendment was ratified during the Reconstruction Era in the year 1865?
1. The Emancipation Proclamation was only a temporary ending of slavery during the American Civil War.
2. Southern States had to approve of the 13th Amendment to be readmitted back into the Union.
Define what a "Carpetbagger" and a "Scalawag" were during the Reconstruction Era:
A Carpetbagger was a Northerner who went South to make money for themselves.
A Scalawag was a Southerner who agreed with Reconstruction and supported the Union.