People
Amendments/Laws
Life after the Civil War
Places
Miscellaneous
100
Who was the leader of the U.S. Military for most of the Civil War?
Ulysses S. Grant
100
What was the name of the law that stated that you did not have to pay to vote if your father's father could vote?
Grandfather Clause
100
By the end of the Civil War, most of the South was racially segregated. What does that mean?
The races were separated in public places
100
In what state did the Battle of Fort Sumter occur?
South Carolina
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
What said that no state could 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 (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 Confederate Military?
Robert E. Lee
300
Some states required people to take 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 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. What 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?
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
Where did the South surrender? (town and state)
Appomattox, Virginia
400
What was the name of the treaty that ended the Civil War?
There wasn't a treaty
500
Approximately how many people died because of the Civil War?
600,000
500
What type of law was created to draft men to fight in the Civil War?
A conscription law
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
In what state did the Battle of Gettysburg occur?
Pennsylvania
500
During which battle did the deadliest day of the Civil War and the deadliest day in U.S. Military history occur?
Battle of Antietam
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