US Government
This law court is the highest court in the American system.
Supreme Court.
This President aimed to limit the rights of African Americans immediately after the Civil War.
Andrew Johnson.
Ulysses S Grant was a general in which theatre of the Civil War initially?
The Western Theatre.
The main economic and political reason for secession.
The continuation of slavery.
Lincoln became President in this year.
1860.
How the US government is run is laid out in this 18th Century political document.
The Constitution.
The faction within the Republican Party that supported equal rights and suffrage for African Americans.
Radical Republicans.
Grant went to this military school to earn an education.
West Point
The name of the President of the Confederacy.
Jefferson Davis.
Lincoln made his career and home in this state.
Illinois.
The Legislative branch of the US Government is made from these two groups.
The Senate and the House of Representatives.
Which constitutional amendment made African American citizens in the eyes of the law, reversing the Dredd Scott Decision?
14th Amendment.
Grant was a veteran of this American war prior to the Civil War.
The first state to secede from the Union.
South Carolina.
Lincoln was assassinated by this person in 1865.
John Wilkes Booth.
The US Government is made up of these three branches.
Executive, Judicial, Legislative.
Congressional leader of the Republicans who repeatedly attacked Democrats and aimed to pass the Reconstruction amendments.
Thaddeus Stevens.
What was Ulysses S. Grant's original first name?
Hiram.
The key city captured by General William Sherman in 1864.
Atlanta.
Lincoln suspended this law so that political opponents and spies could be arrested easily without trial?
Habeas Corpus.
We refer to the system of US government in which the powers between the branches are balanced as...
Checks and balances.
This government organisation aimed to protect the rights of newly freed African Americans in the South.
Freedman's Bureau.
Grant served as President between these years.
1869-1877.
The name of the Vice President of the Confederacy.
Alexander Stephens.
Lincoln appointed this former rival as his Secretary of State.
William Seward.