Presidents
16th president known as the great emancipator
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This battle was the Civil War's first official battle - zero deaths
Where is Fort Sumter?
This is the process of rebuilding the South and reintegrating it back into the Union
What is Reconstruction?
Former slave who helped hundreds of slaves escape to the North
Who is Harriet Tubman?
Where did most of the Civil War fighting take place?
Where is the South?
Network of safe houses & shelters for slaves to travel north
What is the Underground Railroad?
Approximately how many Americans died in the Civil War?
What is the number 700,000?
If a triangle has a 45 degree angle, another 45 degree angle, then it must also have a ___ degree angle
What is the number 90?
The 7th President who had an entire political party made in spite of them
Who is Andrew Jackson?
This battle was a 3 day blood bath and turning point of the Civil War
Where is Gettysburg?
This organization provided food, housing, schools, and aid for freed African Americans
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
This amendment forbade slavery except for punishment for a crime
What is the 13th amendment to the Constitution?
For 200 points each with no help, name me the Union States that had slavery
Missouri, Delaware, Maryland, and Kentucky
Freed all slaves in areas occupied by the Union after its passage
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
We know the Republican Party, the Whig Party, but what party was the only National Party in the 1850 and 1860s?
What is the Democratic Party?
This was the leader of Iraq from 1979 to 2003 who's regime led to the death of a million Iraqis and Iranians
Who is Saddam Hussein?
Lincoln's VP who was ineffective during Reconstruction and did little to nothing for Black Civil Rights
Who is Andrew Johnson?
After the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia fought, these kinds of ships are no longer used for war
What is wooden or wood?
These acts gave the government more power to enforce Civil Rights in the South
What are the Enforcement Acts?
This amendment defines what a citizen is and ensures equal protection under the law
What is the 14th amendment to the Constitution?
This side of the Civil War had more industry and infrastructure
Where is the Union/North?
Letting states decide for themselves if they will be a free or slave state
What's popular sovereignty?
Termination of slavery in the early to mid 1800s
What is abolition?
This is the internet provider for Rockford Lutheran
Who is Comcast? -or- Who is no one apparently?
Former Union General who had a corrupt administration and is on the $50 dollar bill
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This was the bloodiest single day battle in the Civil War
Where is Antietam?
This activity is defined by working on a plantation or farm and paying rent in crops - can be similar to slavery
What is sharecropping?
Who is Frederick Douglas?
Busiest port in the South during the 1860s?
Where is New Orleans?
Show of overwhelming power and force to destroy enemy will to fight
What's shock and awe?
What killed the most people during the Civil War?
What is disease and/or infection?
This is the author of the Crucible
Who is Arthur Miller?
President whose victory marked the end of Reconstruction because of the compromise made with the democratic party
Who is Rutherford B Hayes?
This battle was defined by "Total war: Path of destruction lead by Union"
What is Sherman's March to the Sea?
What was one of the first thing that freed African Americans did which was a an important step in regaining their humanity?
What is finding their families?
Former slave who stole a confederate ship and defected to the Union
Who is Robert Smalls?
This was the capital of the Confederacy (City AND state)
Where is Richmond, VA?
This declined a slave their freedom despite them living in a free state for a time
What's the Dred Scott decision?
Give me the time frame of the Civil War!
When was 1861 to 1865?
Usually on the first Friday of every month, this is the kind of pants that Mr. Wilson wears with his black floral shirt and Chelsea boots.
These are also paired with Mr. Wilson's blue blazer and a green plaid shirt.
What are white pants?
The thirty-second president who was elected four times in a row
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Not a battle, but attacks between pro-slaver and abolitionist in a new state deciding on being a free or slave state
What is Bleeding Kansas?
This lifestyle/opportunity is one of self-sufficiency and families were given free land in the Midwest if they can make the land livable
What is Homestead/Homesteading?
First African American US Senator?
Who is Hiram Revels?
This state changed their flag in 2020 so it no longer has the confederate flag on it
Where is Mississippi?
You don't have to win, just have to not tire out before your opponent
What's attrition?
After the Civil War, this was the second most costly war of the United States
What is WWII?
Although just called the "New England" patriots, this is the name of the city they actually play in
Where is Foxborough?