This man was responsible for assassinating Lincoln in April of 1865
Who is John Wilkes Booth
100
Reconstruction followed this major event in American history
What is the Civil War
100
This amendment formally ended slavery in 1865
What is the 13th Amendment
100
The war started when this fired upon by Confederate forces
What is Fort Sumter
100
This means to leave, as the South did, starting the Civil War
What is to secede
200
This man surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, successfully ending the war
Who is Robert E. Lee
200
These acted as the social controls, directed towards African-Americans, in order to maintain the old social order of the South
What are Black Codes
200
This is when people work a piece of land for free and give a percentage of their harvest to the owner, it essentially put African-Americans back on the plantation
What is sharecropping
200
This battle, Lee's invasion of the North, is considered to be the turning point of the war.
What is Gettysburg
200
This means to favor major and sometimes extreme changes, as some Republicans did
What is to be radical
300
Random: This term refers to Northerners moving to the South to invest money, a negative term
What is a carpetbagger
300
This group was the physical enforcers of the old Southern social order, formed in Tennessee
What is the Ku Klux Klan
300
These are the people who follow a political party; the participants
Who are constituents
300
This freed the slaves beginning January 1, 1863 and changed the course and cause of the war.
What is the Emancipaton Proclamation
300
This means to forgive and forget, as Lincoln hoped to do with the South at the end of the war
What is amnesty
400
This man, a famous Union general, would later become President
Who is Ulysses S. Grant
400
This groups' plan called for harsh treatment of the South following the Civil War because they started it
Who are the radical Republicans
400
This gave African Americans and others the right to vote
What is the 15th Amendment
400
This regiment was the first black regiment to serve for the Union
What is 54th Massachusetts
400
This means to stop shipping in and out of ports, essentially strangling supply lines. A strategy used by the North
What is a blockade
500
This man was President of the Confederacy
Who is Jefferson Davis
500
This plan, promoted by President Lincoln, called for the speedy return of the South to the Union following the war
What is the 10% Plan
500
This is a political party's beliefs, formally pronounced
What is a political platform
500
This was the name of the North's initial strategy at the outset of the war; it's so restricting . ..
What is the Anaconda Plan
500
This war strategy means a prolonged war with the intention of wearing out the attackers