The Emancipation Proclamation
When Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation he did so using this Presidential title.
What is Commander-in-Chief?
Who is known as the Great Compromiser?
Who is Henry Clay?
What government action extended suffrage to African-American males during Reconstruction?
What is the passage of the 15th Amendment?
How many African Americans were elected to local, state and federal offices during Reconstruction?
What is 2,000?
What was Lincoln doing when he delivered the Gettysburg Address; Why was he in Gettysburg?
The Emancipation Proclamation was issued after which Civil War battle?
What is Antietam?
What are the laws that created segregated accomodations after Reconstruction called?
The increased number of Irish Immigrants in the United States led to the creation of which political party?
What is the American Party?
What year corresponds to "Four Score and Seven Years Ago"?
What is 1776?
What best describes the impact of the Emancipation Proclamation?
It freed the slaves in the Confederacy
The inhabitants of Utah and New Mexico would decide on the issue of slavery by voting. What is this concept called?
What is popular sovereignty?
Why was President Andrew Johnson Impeached?
"With Malice toward none, with charity for all .... to bind up the nation's wounds..." This statement is from which event?
What is Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address?
What two notions does the Gettysburg Address reaffirm?
What are freedom and equality?
It increased the number of African Americans serving in the Union Army.
What provision is made concerning the slavery in Washington, D.C.?
What is slavery would continue but the sale of slaves would cease.
Who are the three leading Radical Republicans?
Who are Thaddeus Stevens, Benjamin Wade and Charles Sumer?
As part of Sherman's "March to the Sea" which event helped Lincoln get re-elected in 1864?
What is the Fall of Atlanta?
Lincoln believed that the Civil War was the last battle of which earlier conflict?
What is the American Revolution?
Which European monarch supported Lincoln's Proclamation even though a weakened United States would have been nice
What is the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?
In the Compromise of 1877 what did Radical Republicans promise Southern Democrats? Name three.
What is the occupation of Federal Troops in the South would end; Federal subsidies would be given to the South to support rebuilding efforts; one Southerner would be chosen to be a part of the presidential cabinet
Identify the four parts to General Scott's "Great Snake" Plan for a Union Victory.
What is Blockade the CSA; Take control of the Mississippi River; Sherman's March to the Sea; and the Capture of Richmond
Finish the statement...."That we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and that government ...."
What is "Of the people, by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth"?