Civil War Vocabulary
Where are the winter Olympics taking place this year? Name the country.
What is Italy.
What hate group used intimidation to disenfranchise African Americans?
What is the KKK
This document that Lincoln wrote changed the Civil War from States Rights to Human Rights.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
His Reconstruction plan was based on forgiveness and a quick, peaceful reunion with the South. His plan was the most lenient/forgiving of all the plans
Who is President Lincoln?
Which SC Constitution was "stricter"? 1867 or 1895
1895
What word means "to free"?
Emancipate
This amendment abolished Slavery in the US.
What is the 13th amendment?
The General who is famous for his "March to the Sea"
Who is William T. Sherman?
This era was a time in which the United States needed to be reunited after the Civil War.
What is Reconstruction?
What was the act that said that the railroad industry had to provide separate cars for different races or separate races by colors within the same car?
what is the Separate Car Act of 1890
Person deliberatly working to free slaves.
Who is an Abolishionist?
These are examples of >>>>>>>>>>
poll taxes, literacy tests, grandfather clause, intimidation
What is a disenfranchisement
The first battle of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Fort Sumter?
What area in South Carolina was used as a foothold in the South? There was a battle there. The Union forces won this battle.
Port Royal
What established segregated schools and kept blacks and whites separated?
What are the Jim Crow Laws
How many children does Mrs. Nilsson have?
4
This Amendment granted citizenship to all men and women born or naturalized in the US.
What is a the 14th Amendment?
We talked about Jim Crow. Who was Jim Crow?
"Jim Crow" was not a real person, but a fictional, racist caricature of a Black man performed in blackface by white minstrel showman Thomas "Daddy" Rice in the 1830s.
What is Mr. Powell's favorite basketball team?
Kentucky
This showed that formerly enslaved people could work for wages/money and take care of land successfully
What is the Port Royal Experiment.
Admitted Missouri to the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state, while banning slavery from the lands north of the 36º 30' parallel.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This Amendment gave all men the right to vote.
What is 15th Amendment?
This place is where General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant, and ended the Civil War.
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
What court case stated "separate but equal"
Plessy v Ferguson
This man was the racist leader of the Democratic Party in SC for over 20 years. There is a field at Clemson named after him. (It is in your study guide)
Who is Ben Tillman