There is no other war that the United states has fought (in the history of our nation) where more Americans lost their lives. During the Civil War, in 4 years of fighting, this many U.S. soldiers died.
What is almost 620,000 soldiers?
100
Lincoln's plan to readmit the former Confederate states to the Union was known as this.
What is the Ten Percent Plan?
100
Amnesty means this.
What is an official pardon (forgiveness) for all illegal acts?
100
Under the 10% Plan, to receive amnesty southerners had to do these two things.
What is 10% in a state had to swear an oath of loyalty to the United States and they also had to agree that slavery was illegal.
100
Many Radical Republicans thought this about the 10% plan.
What is, the Ten Percent Plan did not go far enough or wasn’t harsh enough punishment for their crimes against the United States?
200
Two Republicans – Senator Benjamin Wade and Representative Henry Davis - had an alternative to Lincoln’s plan which was this.
What is, first it had to ban slavery.
Second, a majority of adults males in the state had to take the loyalty oath and also this legislation proposed putting the South under military rule.
200
Lincoln killed the Wade Davis Bill with this.
What is a pocket veto?
200
A pocket veto is this.
What is when the president lets the session of Congress expire without signing the legislation?
200
On April 14, 1865 this tragic event happened.
What is while attending a play at Ford’s Theatre in Washington D.C., John Wilkes Booth shot/assassinated president Lincoln?
200
Because Abraham Lincoln was assassinated this man succeeded the presidency (became the new president).
Who is Andrew Johnson?
300
New Southern state legislatures passed a series of laws known as this, that severely limited the right of African Americans.
What is black codes?
300
Under the Black Codes, in no southern state, were African Americans allowed to do these (4) things?
What is vote, testify against whites, handle weapons, or serve on juries?
300
In April 1866, Congress passed this bill, Which gave African Americans citizenship, gave the U.S. Government the right to protect the rights of freedmen (the name given freed slaves) and women.
What is the Civil Rights Bill of 1866.
300
President Johnson tried to do this to the bill.
What is veto(stop) the bill, but congress overrode his veto.
300
Congress passed this Amendment in June 1866, because they feared that the Civil Rights Act might be overturned.
This gave African Americans citizenship.
It also required that no state deny any person “the equal protection of the laws”. It also barred many Confederate leaders from holding public office.
What is the 14th Amendment to the constitution?
400
In 1869 Congress passed the Fifteenth amendment to the Constitution, which gave African Americans this as well as stated this.
What is gave African Americans the right to vote and stated, “the right to vote shall not denied on account of race, color or previous condition or servitude”?
400
President Johnson wanted to remove Edwin Stanton, Lincoln’s Secretary of War. The Radical Republicans came to his rescue and three days later the House of Representatives voted to do this.
What is impeach or charge Johnson with high crimes and misdemeanors?
400
Impeachment is the process of this.
What is bringing charges of wrongdoing against a public official?
400
Even though many Southerners used violence to keep African Americans from voting, hundreds of thousands of them, newly able to vote, voted in the election.
It is the African American vote that helped this man to win the presidency in a narrow victory.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
400
Carpetbaggers were office holders from...and Scalawags were...
What is who put what they owned in bags made of carpet and went to the South to make money to help in the reconstruction and Scalawags were white Southern Republicans?
500
During Reconstruction, more than this many African Americans won election to state legislatures.
and at least this many of these black politicians were elected to Congress.
What is 600 in state legislatures and 16 in Congress?
500
He was son of former slaves, was born free in North Carolina and went to college in Illinois.
He served in the Union Army as a chaplain
In 1870 Revels became the first African American in this.
Who is Hiram Revels - the first African American in the U.S. Senate?
500
He was an African American Senator from Mississippi.
Who is Blanche K. Bruce?
500
This guaranteed African Americans equal rights in public places, such as theaters and public transportation.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1875?
500
In this, the Democrats agreed to accept Rutherford B.Haye’s victory as president. In return they wanted all remaining federal troops removed from the South.