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Facts
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Who won the presidential election of 1860?
What is Abraham Lincoln
100
What two battles were important victories for the North that served as turning points in the Civil War?
What are Gettysburg and Vicksburg
100
Why was the Freedman's Bureau Created?
What is to protect freed African American slaved in the south following the Civil War.
100
What was the name of the all African American regiment that attacked Fort Wagner in the Civil War?
What is the 54th Massachusetts Regiment
100
The growth of Nativism and the decline of race relationships in the United States in the mid 1800s was a result of what?
What is an increase in immigration
200
What was president Lincoln's primary goal of the Civil War?
What is to restore the Union
200
What were some of the advantages that the Confederacy had over the Union during the Civil War.
What are they had experience in military leadership, they were accustomed to riding horses and shooting guns, they knew the land, they were passionate about what they were fighting for, etc.
200
Who is Harriet Tubman and what did she do to help enslaved African Americans?
What is an abolitionist who had escaped slavery and helped others escape using the Underground Railroad.
200
What was the ruling of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case? What did this mean for African Americans who had escaped slavery?
What is that they U.S. Constitution did not apply to slaves and that even if they had escaped slavery and were living a free state they were still technically considered a slave.
200
Put the following groups of people in order of their southern class structure that existed before the Civil War. Slaves The Planters The Yeomantry Poor Whites
What is Planters, Yeomantry, Poor Whites * Slaves were not considered part of society they were considered to be property
300
Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and John C. Calhoun had opposing viewpoints about what?
What is States Rights Vs. Federal Power
300
Name three advantages the North had over the South that helped them win the war.
What are Industrialized, larger population, produced more firearms/ equipment
300
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
What is a document signed by Lincoln that eventually abolished slavery in all of the United States
300
What happened as a result of the Kansas Nebraska Act on 1854?
What is Violence broke out in what became known as "Bleeding Kansas" and many people died.
300
Name three things that the Freedman's Bureau did to help African Americans after the Civil War.
What is it provided education for African Americans, Created Housing, Granted basic Human Rights to former slaves.
400
Who invented the Cotton Gin and what affect did it have on life in the South?
Who is Eli Whitney Made cotton the dominant cash crop of the south
400
What is the famous quote said by Abraham Lincoln in 1858 that expressed his belief that a nation with opposing views on slavery cannot survive?
What is " A house divided against itself cannot stand"
400
What were the 13th 14th and 15th Amendments to the US Constitution and who did they benefit?
What is The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution officially abolished and continues to prohibit slavery to this day. The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution declared that all persons born or naturalized in the United States are American citizens including African Americans. The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits each government in the United States from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. ALL GRANTED RIGHTS TO THE AFRICAN AMERICANS
400
After the Civil War during the Reconstruction what role did African Americans have in the government?
What is Several African Americans were elected to political office at both the state and national levels.
400
How did Radical Republicans viewpoints differ from that of Moderate Republicans following the Civil War?
What is the Radical Republicans wanted to punish the south for the Civil War.
500
In Lincoln's Gettysburg Address what even does he make a reference to? Four Score and seven years ago...
What is The Signing of the Declaration of Independence.
500
Explain Lincolns strategy in sending unarmed ships to Fort Sumter?
What is He sent unarmed ships, so that if the South fired on them they would be blamed for starting the Civil War.
500
Did the North use slave labor to become industrialized?
What is NO!!!!
500
What event resulted in the end of the Reconstruction?
What is the Compromise during the election of 1876.
500
Name three things that happened as a result of the Compromise of 1850?
What is it strengthened the Fugitive Slave Act, New Mexico and Utah territories are granted popular sovereignty, California enters Union as a free state.
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