Leaders of the Civil War
The President of the Union.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The amendment ending slavery
What is the 13th amendment?
A fee paid at the voting booth.
What are poll taxes?
Doubled the size of the US.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
The kind of factories that many young girls worked in in the 1830s and 1840s
What are Lowell Mills?
Major Union General and future US president.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
The amendment providing "equal protection" and "birthright citizenship."
What is the 14th amendment?
If your relative could not vote, neither could you.
What are grandfather clauses?
The law that led to the Trail of Tears.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
The Supreme Court case that declared "separate but equal"
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
The head of the Confederacy.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
The amendment giving formerly enslaved men the right to vote.
What is the 15th amendment?
A text/passage, usually difficult, given to people to see if they were eligible to vote or not.
What are literacy tests?
A war led by Democrat James K. Polk
What is The Mexican American War?
The Supreme Court case that said enslaved people could never be free in the territories.
What is the Dred Scott decision?
The executive order by Lincoln to end slavery in areas in "open rebellion.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
These regressive laws were largely overturned by the 14th amendment
What are black codes?
The movement of freedmen from the South to the North in order to escape persecution from their former masters.
What is the Great Migration?
The religious group who settled the Southwest, fleeing persecution from the US government.
Who are the Mormons?
The place where many of Harriet Tubman's ancestors currently live.
What is Canada?
The political party most interested in ensuring the rights of freed people after the war.
Who were Radical Republicans?
What many believed enslaved people were owed after the Civil War for generations of unpaid labor--though they never got it.
What are 40 acres and a mule?
The economic system in the post-war south endured by poor blacks and poor whites.
What is sharecropping?
The first "western" president.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
The confederate general who was killed by his own men due to an unfortunate miscommunication while returning to camp.
Who is Stonewall Jackson?