Speeches (Emancipation Proclamation, House Divided Speech, etc.)
Memorial Day
Black Codes and Jim Crow Laws
Food
100
Out of bonds, printing money, and taxation, which was purchased the most in the Union?
What are bonds?
100
Who said the Emancipation Proclamation?
What is Abraham Lincoln?
100
What year did it become an official federal holiday?
What is 1971?
100
What are Jim Crow Laws?
What is legalizing segregation between whites and blacks?
100
What is hardtack made out of?
What is flour and water, and sometimes a little salt or sugar?
200
What was the value of a Union dollar (in cents) in 1861?
What is 80 cents?
200
What day was the House Divided Speech given?
What is June 16, 1858?
200
In 1966, what place did the federal government declare as the "official birthplace of Memorial Day?"
What is Waterloo, New York?
200
Under who's "lenient Reconstruction policies" were some southern states passing "black codes?"
What is Andrew Johnson?
200
What form did meat usually come in?
What is salted pork and sometimes fresh beef?
300
In 1863, the Union was spending $2.5 million on the war per day, how much money would that equal today?
What is $43 million?
300
True or False: The Emancipation Proclamation freed all slaves?
What is false?
300
Why did the federal government choose Waterloo, New York to be the official birthplace of Memorial Day?
What is an annual event where businesses were closed and people would decorate the graves of soldiers with flowers and flags?
300
What did northern outrage over the black codes help lead to?
What is Radical Reconstruction?
300
True or false: Coffee beans were handed out, but soldiers had to roast and grind them themselves.
What is true?
400
What were Union bills known as and why was it designed like this?
What are "greenbacks" and what are their intricate green designs to prevent counterfeiting?
400
After newspapers started to quote the House-Divided speech, what was Lincoln starting to be known as?
What is "one of the most eloquent voices for the Republican antislavery cause?"
400
Who was General John A. Logan and what did he declare the 30th of May in 1868 to be?
What is a leader of an organization for Northern Civil War veterans and what is a day for the purpose of decorating the graves of soldiers and remembering what they did?
400
How long were Jim Crow Laws considered laws?
What is nearly a century?
400
What was one food that was a Union favorite that they would prepare and would sometimes cook with a cooking pot and a lid?
What is baked beans?
500
In what year was the phrase "In God We Trust" put on the American currency?
What is 1864?
500
During Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, how did he "blend faith" in with his speech?
What is how he mentioned that God might have brought war to the nation as punishment for slavery.
500
What was one major change in the evolution day of Memorial Day?
What is originally only honoring people who fought in the Civil War and then as evolving, honoring soldiers who died in all wars?
500
In what year were the Jim Crow Laws no longer laws because of the Civil Rights Act?
What is 1964?
500
What were the three other common nicknames for "hardtack?"
What are "tooth-dullers," "worm castles," and "sheet iron crackers."