People
In which speech did President Lincoln state that the Civil War was necessary to preserve the Union and that America was one nation, not a collection of individual states?
What is the Gettysburg Address
Amendment that made slavery illegal
What is the 13th amendment?
Name one advantage that the South had during the war
More experienced soldiers
Better generals
Ownership of human beings was the primary cause of the Civil War.
What was Slavery/State Rights?
The act of leaving the Union.
What is secession?
Which sport uses a net, a racket, and a birdie?
Badminton
In Greek mythology, who was the god of the sea?
Poseidon
An individual who worked to end the institution of slavery.
Abolitionist
Amendment that allowed all MALE U.S. citizens the right to vote
What is the 15th amendment?
Why were slaves not allowed to ask for court cases?
because they were not citizens, they were property
Lincoln's plan to readmit the former Confederate states to the Union was known as this.(how many had to take an oath?)
What was the Ten Percent Plan?
These amendments were put in place to protect African American rights
What was the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
What type of race is the Tour de France?
Bike Race
What is the name of the man who created Kentucky Fried Chicken?
Colonel Sanders
The group in the U.S. Congress who imposed more harsh conditions for the South during Reconstruction
Daily Double
Who are Radical Republicans?
Gave full citizenship to all people born in the United States, giving equal protection of the laws
What is the 14th amendment?
It is where General Lee surrendered to General Grant, ending the Civil War.
Appomattox Court house
This declared slaves in rebellion states to be freed in an effort to deprive the Confederacy of its workforce
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
The idea that people should have the right to decided whether to be a slave or a free state.
What is Popular sovereignty?
How many numbers are on a dartboard?
20
What material is Captain America's shield made of? Titanium, Vibranium, Steel, or Teflon
Vibranium
He was a formerly enslaved who became prominent abolitionist, author and public speaker
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This act, passed by the Radical Republicans in 1867, divided the former Confederacy into 5 military districts.
What was the Reconstruction act of 1867.
The Freedmen’s Bureau succeeded in
providing clothing, medical care, food, and education to many freed people.
Which one is NOT one of the 3 points of the Reconstruction Act of 1867?
Write a new state constitution
Ratify the 14th amendment
Give Freedmen jobs
Allow African Americans to vote
Give Freedmen jobs
An era in which white supremacists took power across of the South, segregation became the norm, and Southern states found ways to strip free Black citizens of their new civil rights.
What was Jim Crow (Jim Crow Laws)?
In American football, how many points is a field goal worth?
3
Who was the King of England during the American Revolutionary War?
King George III
The general of the Union Army during the Civil War?
Who is Ulysses s Grant
Stated that 50% of voters in Southern states must take the oath of allegiance to the United States.
What is the Wade-Davis Bill
Former Confederate soldiers who terrorized Black people across the South.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This act allowed the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide the issue of slavery using popular sovereignty.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
The government of 11 Southern states that seceded from the Union
Confederacy
What boxer is known as "The Greatest?"
Muhammad Ali
What vegetable takes its name from Capital of Belgium?
Brussel Sprouts
This book, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, was a powerful statement on the impact of slavery.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
What did the Supreme Court rule in Plessy v Ferguson?
Segregation is legal as the separate facilities are equal
This was the section of the Constitution that permitted slavery.
What is Three-Fifths Compromise?
This measure decreed all slaves in those areas still in rebellion against the Union “shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free”
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
To free from restraint, control, or the power of another
Emancipation
What’s the diameter of a basketball hoop in inches?
18 inches
What fish is used to make calamari?
Squid