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A world-changing political crime that occurred on April 15th, 1865.
What is the assassination of Abraham Lincoln?
What is Ford's Theatre?
The number of acres of land each freed slave was supposed to receive per General Sherman's Special Field Order #15?
What is up to 40 acres?
The choice representative black leaders made when asked how to organize the governance of the regions allocated to freed slaves, which was shortly after issued as a formal directive by US President Abraham Lincoln?
What is complete self-governance and black-only colonies?
The celebrated actor who, during a performance, assassinated Abraham Lincoln.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
The home that hosted the meeting including General William T. Sherman and 12 black leaders that led directly to Field Order #15 (granting 40 acres of land to every freed slave).
What is Charles Greene's mansion on Macon Street in Savannah, Georgia?
The approximate total number of acres of land marked for allocation to freed slaves following the US Civil War.
What is 400,000?
The resource black leaders identified as most useful to freed slaves following the Civil War.
What is land?
What is the US Civil War (April 12, 1861 – April 9, 1865)?
The city in which General Sherman was headquartered following his infamous "March to the Sea".
What is Savannah, Georgia?
The number of black community leaders who met with Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton and General William T. Sherman to discuss reparations for freed slaves?
What is 20?
The reason post-Civil War black community leader Brother Frazier gave for supporting black-only colonies for freed slaves.
What is, "prejudice against us in the South that will take years to get over?"
The doctor who treated Lincoln's assassin and was later criminally charged for having done so.
Who is Dr. Samuel Mudd?
Coastal areas of these states were allocated to freed slaves following the US Civil War.
What are South Carolina, Georgia and Florida?
The number of former slaves in the United States at the end of the Civil War.
What is 3.9 million?
Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens were two famous activists of this type.
What are abolitionists?
This man succeeded Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
Following the Emancipation Proclamation, slave owners were paid up to this dollar amount as "restitution" for their former slaves.
What is $300?
The date on which Field Order #15 was issued, which would grant every freed slave 40 acres of land.
What is January 18, 1865?
This system, created and sustained by abolitionists of every race, helped escaped slaves move northward to the US's "free states"?
What is the Underground Railroad?