Road to Civil War
The Civil War
Reconstruction Gains
Reconstruction Setbacks
Americans Move West
100
This is a person who fights to end slavery.
What is an abolitionist?
100
This is the battle that officially started the Civil War, though there were no casualties except for a Confederate horse.
What is the Battle of Fort Sumter?
100
This changed the Constitution to explicitly prohibit the practice of slavery or involuntary servitude in the US (except as punishment for a crime).
What is the 13th Amendment?
100
These laws only lasted for about a year after the end of the Civil War, but they fined or put freedmen in jail for petty crimes like "vagrancy" or not signing a sharecropping contract.
What are the Black Codes?
100
This is the name of the (relatively) fast mail service spanning 2,000 miles and crossing the Great Plains. It only lasted a year, as it was replaced by telegraph communications.
What is the Pony Express?
200
This was the first state to secede from the Union, in response to the election of Abraham Lincoln.
What is South Carolina?
200
These are the years of the Civil War.
What is 1861 to 1865?
200
The 14th Amendment conferred THIS upon African Americans, but NOT upon Native Americans, who were not subject to the jurisdiction of the US at the time.
What is citizenship?
200
Congress passed laws in 1870 and 1871 targeting the activities of members of THIS organization, who conspired to hinder freedmen's expression of civil rights.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
200
The Union Pacific and Central Pacific were the two companies that hired men to build THIS across the US.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
300
This state was allowed to practice slavery, even though it was above the parallel line 36 degrees 30 minutes, as part of the package deal known as the Compromise of 1820.
What is Missouri?
300
This was the name given to the Union strategy of blockading southern ports in order to subdue the South and keep resources from coming in.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
300
THIS granted suffrage to African American men. African American women would gain suffrage decades later, with the passage of the 19th Amendment.
What is the 15th Amendment?
300
This was the deal that ended Reconstruction - it gave Hayes, a Republican, the presidency in exchange for the removal of federal troops from the South.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
300
This was the name given to the discovery of gold and silver in Nevada in 1859.
What is the Comstock Lode?
400
This compromise was never passed, but it represents how desperate congressional leaders were to preserve the Union in the years leading up to secession. If passed, it would have allowed slavery to continue permanently in the South.
What is the Crittendon Compromise?
400
This was the name of the all-black regiment that served in the Union army during the Civil War, depicted in the movie, Glory.
What is the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry?
400
This man was the first African American senator. He served only one year in office, but he represents the extraordinary number of African American men who rose to positions of power during the Reconstruction era.
Who is Hiram Revels?
400
This Supreme Court case held that "separate but equal" facilities were legal.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
400
This term indicates the importance of beef to the Great Plains area in the two decades after the Civil War. Its reign came to an end in the 1880s with competition between ranchers and farmers, severe weather, and the destruction of grazing land.
What is the Cattle Kingdom?
500
This man, when he raided an armory in Harper's Ferry, Virginia, caused the South to worry that a major slave rebellion would lead to the end of slavery. His raid was one of the factors leading to secession.
John Brown
500
The Emancipation Proclamation decreed that slaves only in these states would be freed.
What is the Confederate states / the Confederacy / the rebelling states?
500
This set of laws divided the South (except for Tennessee) into 5 military districts during Reconstruction, with each district ruled temporarily by a military governor. Southerners were not happy about this.
What are the Reconstruction Acts of 1867?
500
President Johnson vetoed a bill that would have given THIS GOVERNMENT AGENCY more funding and power to give aid to freedmen and poor white southerners. The bill was later overriden by Congress.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
500
Boomtowns sprouted up quickly around what sites of mineral extraction?
What is a mine?
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