VOCABULARY
FAMOUS PEOPLE
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
MAJOR BATTLES & EVENTS
RECONSTRUCTION
100
Law which forces military service
What is the draft?
100
Many Southern States still celebrate the birthday of this famous Confederate general on the third Monday in January.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
100
President Lincoln created this federal holiday. THANKS Mr. President!
What is Thanksgiving?
100
Generals Grant and Lee negotiated surrender at which courthouse?
What is Appomattox?
200
Money doesn't grow on trees but tobacco and cotton are examples of these.
What are cash crops?
200
This Union general went on to be the 18th President of the United States.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
200
Lincoln and others who wanted to abolish slavery were given what name?
What is is Abolitionist?
200
What does this mnemonic device stand for: Basketball Saves All Great Athletes?
What is Bull Run, Shiloh, Antietam, Gettysburg, Appomattox?
300
This terrorist organization is known for their hoods and burning crosses.
Who is the Ku Klux Klan?
300
Abe Lincoln's Assassin.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
300
Did Lincoln favor leniency or harshness during Reconstruction?
What is leniency?
300
The First Battle of Bull Run is know to Southerners as what?
What is Manassas?
300
The 10 percent plan was developed by this key figure.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
400
These states allowed slavery but did not join the Confederacy.
What are border states?
400
First all African American Army regiment
What is the 54th Massachusetts Regiment?
400
Which presidential elections did Abe Lincoln win?
What are the elections of 1860 & 1864?
400
The Battle of Antietam, one of the few battles fought in the North, occurred in which state?
What is Maryland?
400
The Freedman's Bureau was a part of which Cabinet Department: War, State, or Treasury?
What is the Department of War?
500
This type of war is fought between members of the same country.
What is a civil war?
500
This man was Abe Lincoln's opposite.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
500
This woman was the First Lady from 1861 - 1865.
Who is Mary Todd Lincoln?
500
Finish this final line of the Gettysburg Address: "And that government of the......"
What is "people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth."
500
This piece of legislation, passed in 1866, challenged the Black Codes by granting full citizenship to African Americans.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
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