Who was the leader of the U.S. military for the last few years of the Civil War?
Ulysses Grant
100
Name the person that we studied who led more than 300 escaped slaves to freedom using the Underground Railroad.
Harriet Tubman
100
By the end of the Reconstruction Era, most of the South was racially segregated. What does that mean?
the different races were separated in public places
100
The belief that God wanted the U.S. to own the land from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean is called what?
manifest destiny
100
Approximately how many slaves got their freedom as a result of the Civil War?
4 million
200
Who assassinated President Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
200
Which law, amendment, or doctrine says that no state can prevent someone from voting strictly because of race?
15th Amendment
200
Why was a sharecropper usually not able to move away from the land that he rented once he entered into an agreement with a landowner?
because a landowner would almost always say that the sharecropper still owed him money and so the sharecropper could not leave until the "debt" was paid off
200
What land did the U.S. buy from Russia during the Reconstruction Era?
Alaska Territory (or Alaska)
200
What is a civil war? Define the term.
it is a war between people who live in the same nation
300
Who was the leader of the Confederacy's military?
Robert E. Lee
300
Some states required some people to take and pass a test in order to vote. What were these tests called?
literacy tests
300
What was the short term effect of African Americans getting the right to vote?
many African American men voted and several African Americans got elected to powerful positions in the South
300
What was the name of the African nation that former slaves were encouraged to go to after the Civil War?
Liberia
300
The South did not trust Abraham Lincoln partly because he was a Northerner. Which state was Lincoln from?
Illinois
400
Who was the President of the Confederate States of America?
Jefferson Davis
400
What "ended" slavery in the rebelling states?
the Emancipation Proclamation
400
Why were the African Americans who got elected to powerful positions at the beginning of Reconstruction not able to remain in those positions by the end of Reconstruction?
African Americans who got elected to powerful positions lost their reelections because Black Codes prevented African Americans from reelecting them
400
Explain in detail how the U.S. got Texas.
President Polk convinced Texas (which was an independent nation at the time) to join the U.S. and become a U.S. state
400
What was the name of the treaty that ended the Civil War?
there wasn't a treaty
500
Approximately how many Americans died as a result of the Civil War?
600,000
500
List the three main dilemmas/problems that had to be solved during the Reconstruction Era.
how severely should the South be punished, how much should the U.S. Government help the South rebuild, how should the U.S. deal with the newly freed slaves
500
Why did African Americans who moved North after the Civil War face racism there too?
because many Whites in the North did not want African Americans living by them (also correct: because many Whites in the North did not want African Americans competing with them for jobs)
500
List the three groups who argued with each other about how to solve the dilemmas/problems during the Reconstruction Era.