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100
First battle of the Civil War
What is Ft. Sumter?
100
Freed all slaves in the Confederacy.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
100
Rebuilding of the South
What is Reconstruction?
100
Racist, white supremacist group that targeted blacks after the civil war?
Who are the KKK?
100
Commander of Confederate Forces?
Who is Robert E Lee?
200
Turning point of the war, later the battlefield was commemorated as a memorial
What is Gettysburg?
200
Lincoln stated "In your hands, my dissatisfied countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war."
What is Lincoln's First Inaugural Address?
200
Group in Congress that wanted the South to be punished and change their ways drastically.
What are Radical Republicans?
200
Laws such as the poll tax, grandfather clause, and literacy test to vote were a response to which amendment
What is the 15th Amendment?
200
The Reconstruction Act forced the South into 5 __________.
What are military districts?
300
Split the Confederacy in two, gave the Union control of the Mississippi
What is Vicksburg?
300
Lincoln claimed that the war was coming to an end and it was time to "bind up the nation's wounds."
What is Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address?
300
Political issue why the South seceded
What are state's rights?
300
Government institution that set up schools for freed slaves and helped freedmen find jobs
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
300
Gave freed slaves equal protection under the law and citizenship
What is the 14th Amendment?
400
Bloodiest single day of war in American history
What is Antietam?
400
Lincoln commemorates the Gettysburg battlefield and says the men who died will not have died in vain.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
400
President of the Confederacy?
Who is Jefferson Davis?
400
Farming system that replaced the plantation system in the South. Slaves worked borrowed land and paid fees to use it.
What is sharecropping?
400
President that was impeached by the Radical Republicans in the House of Representatives.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
500
Location of Confederate surrender to end the war
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
500
Jefferson's Inaugural address claimed the South was denied their natural rights. It resembled this other famous document from 1776.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
500
Amendment that freed slaves
What is the 13th Amendment?
500
Laws that kept blacks in the south from rising in social status. Forced blacks into labor intensive jobs.
What are the black codes?
500
Years of the civil war
What is 1861-1865?
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