Civil War
Name of the North's plan for defeating the South.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
The period after the Civil War and until about 1877 is known as...
What is Reconstruction?
The idea that if a law isn't fair or just, one shouldn't follow that law.
What is Civil Disobedience?
The right to vote.
What is suffrage?
In 1960, JFK ran for president against who?
Who is Richard Nixon?
To break away.
What is to secede?
Under Congressional Reconstruction, blacks in the South started to exercise many new rights, but as soon as Reconstruction ended, Southern states began to pass these...
What are black codes or Jim Crow laws?
Important court case that determined that "separate, but equal" was unconstitutional (this essentially said segregation was NOT okay).
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
The first wave of the women's rights movement focused on _____________ and two of its main leaders were...
JFK was assassinated here.
Where is Dallas Texas?
One advantage the North had over the South and one advantage the South had over the North.
What is:
North: bigger population (more soldiers), more factories/industries, more railroads, Lincoln...
South: Highly motivated (defending their home), knowledge of geography (homecourt advantage), military colleges/leaders.
Name one requirement for a Southern state to be readmitted to the Union under Presidential Reconstruction (Lincoln's Plan/Johnson's Plan)
What is:
10% of a Southern state's population to pledge allegiance to the Union to be readmitted.
The Southern state had to pass the 13th amendment (make slavery illegal).
When Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving up her seat on a Montgomery bus, this sparked what?
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Name TWO ways that women were discriminated against as listed in the Declaration of Sentiments.
What is:
Couldn't vote, weren't paid the same, all wages/property went to husband, husband got everything in divorce, husband's could legally punish their wives, women weren't allowed to go to college, women couldn't speak in public, women had to pay taxes to a government that they had no voice in...
Name of the government committee who was tasked with investigating JFK's assassination.
What is the Warren Commission?
The first battle of the Civil War occurred here.
Where is Fort Sumter?
Republicans in Congress took over Reconstruction and made their own plan (Radical Republican Plan). Name one requirement under the Radical Republican Plan.
What is:
Required Southern states to pass the 14th and 15th amendments too (in addition to the 13th).
Sent federal troops down to Southern states to occupy them and make sure they were following the new rules (giving African Americans their rights)
Give one example of a Jim Crow law (things that African Americans were fighting against during the Civil Rights movement)
What is:
Literacy tests, poll taxes, no interracial marriages, segregation in public places like schools, buses, restaurants, etc. etc.
Law that made it illegal for public colleges to ban women from attending and required that they create female athletic options.
What is title IX?
Who was ultimately accused of killing JFK?
Who is Lee Harvey Oswald?
What is:
13th: Abolished Slavery
14: Gave citizenship to anyone born here and said all citizens are to be treated the same under the law.
15th: Gave African American men the right to vote.
Name for Southern politicians after the Civil War who ran as Republicans just to increase their chances of getting elected...even if they weren't truly a Republican.
What is a scalawag?
Two major voting rights accomplishments of the Civil Rights movement were...
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (outlawed literacy tests) and the 24th Amendment (outlaws poll taxes).
Name TWO goals of the SECOND wave of the women's rights movement.
What is:
Equal pay, maternity leave, Equal Rights Amendment (didn't happen, but was still a goal), access to college/sports, fixing divorce laws, healthcare, job training, ending hiring discrimination...
Reason why many Americans believed that Oswald did not act alone...
What is:
It would have been very difficult for one shooter to have fired all the shots that struck JFK and Governor Connolly in the timeframe given (magic bullet??)