Laws and Legislation
The law freed African Americans during the Civil War and motivated others slaves in the South to flee to the North.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
He was the 16th President and his term was during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
These laws were created by racist southerners to take away rights from freed African Americans.
What are Black codes?
This event took place at Ford Theater, April 14, 1865.
What is the assassination of Abraham Lincoln?
Mr. Hector's favorite color.
What is red?
This bill was created in opposition to Abraham Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan by Radical Republicans. However, it was vetoed.
What is the Wade-Davis Bill?
He was the 17th President and became president after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This political group favored strong punishment for the returning Confederacy prior to starting Reconstruction.
Who are Radical Republicans?
After this battle, Abraham Lincoln gave his famous speech, consecrating the battlefield after a Union victory.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
Mr. Hector's favorite Basketball team.
Who are the New York Knicks?
This organization provided help to African Americans and poor Southerners ravaged by the war.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
He was the 18th President and completed military service in the Civil War for the Union.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
These amendments provided African Americans with crucial rights need in American Society. *Also give the name and definition for each*
What are the Reconstruction Amendments?
This event was a voter fraud scandal where Rutherford B. Hayes cheated Samuel Tilden out of the presidential victory.
What is the Election of 1876?
The name of Spider-Man's uncle.
Who is Uncle Ben?
Congress passed these acts in result of increased violated towards African Americans by terrorists known as the Ku Klux Klan.
What are Enforcement Acts?
This man pooled family money together to buy his former plantation, which then became the 3rd largest cotton-producing farm in the South.
Who is Isaiah T. Montgomery?
The landowner provided land, seed (often cotton), tools, a mule, and a cabin in exchange for labor and most of the crop.
What is sharecropping?
This location was the first official battle of the Civil War in South Carolina.
What is the Battle of Fort Sumter?
Darth Vader's real name.
Who is Anakin Skywalker?
Congress passed this law that set aside 45 million acres of public land in five southern states.
What is the Southern Homestead Act?
First black senator to serve a full six-year term; briefly presided over Senate in 1879
Who is Blanche K. Bruce?
This compromise was created after the voter fraud committed during the Election of 1876.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
The bloodiest battle of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
The only city where all major sports teams have the same color.
What is Pennsylvania or Pittsburgh?