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Reconstruction
Homefront
100

Why were southerners opposed to the abolition of slavery?

1)It would ruin their economy

2) needed the free and forced labor to make $

100
Who wrote the Emancipation Proclamation
Abraham Lincoln
100

This was created as an early compromise to establish which states would be free or slave states; establishing the 36'30 line at this states southern border

The Missouri Compromise

100
In the Compromise of 1877 that ended Reconstruction, Republicans agreed to
withdraw federal troops from the South
100
What was the southern economy based on?
Cotton and Agriculture
200

What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act declare?

1)Territories could use popular sovereignty to decide if they would enter the Union as a slave state

2) Vote to be a Free/Slave State in the Union

200
Who did General Lee surrender to at Appomattox Court House?
General Ulysses S. Grant
200
What marked the beginning of the Civil War?
Battle of Fort Sumter
200
The amendment which states that no one can be kept from voting because of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude" is the
15th
200
which slaves were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation?
None (freed only slaves in the Confederacy)
300

The 10th Amendment States; The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. 

What issue would states fight over leading to a war?

Slavery

300
Who was the President of the Confederacy?
Jefferson Davis
300
What battle was considered the turning point of the Civil War?
Gettysberg
300
The Freedman’s Bureau was established to:
provide former slaves with food, clothing, and education
300

Plessy V. Ferguson establsihed this as a legality in the U.S.

Segregation/Separate but Equal

400

This event triggered the Secession of South Carolina in 1860.

Election of Lincoln

400
Who led a march from Atlanta to Savannah that destroyed buildings, farmland, and homes?
General William T. Sherman
400

This amendment was added to the Constitution, officially outlawing enslavement in the U.S.

The 13th Amendment

400
The amendment which made "all persons born or naturalized in the United States" citizens of the country was the
14th
400

Give TWO examples of voting rights restrictions that were implemented against African Americans

1) Poll Taxes

2) Literacy Tests

3) Grandfather Clauses

500

Widespread violence across this territory over slavery (Hint: John Brown fought here)

What is Kansas (Bloody Kansas)

500
Who lead the Raid on Harper's Ferry?
John Brown
500

In response to uprisings against the war, Lincoln suspended this, saying it would help to preserve the union

Habeaus Corpus

500
were codes that were designed to give the state control over blacks' behavior, and particularly, their labor. They placed harsh economic and social restrictions on the blacks.
Black codes
500

What was the purpose of the Jim Crow laws enacted in the post–Civil War South?

Limiting/Preventing African Americans rights

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