TJ-The Prez
Ole A.L.
Gettysburg
Reconstruction
Death Round
100
Thomas Jefferson was the principal author for this document, critical to the foundation of America.
What is The Declaration of Independence?
100
In his presidency, one of Lincoln's main objectives was to __________ the divided US.
What is unify?
100
The Battle of Gettysburg took place in Gettysburg, ___________.
What is Pennsylvania.
100
The Black Codes undermined what newly instated "laws"?
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments?
100
___________, actor and Confederate sympathizer, assassinated President Lincoln.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
200
This transaction doubled the size of the United States in Jefferson's presidency.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
200
In this speech, Lincoln formally freed the slaves,
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
200
_______ took the southern armies north to attack.
What is Lee/General Lee?
200
This amendment allows people to vote no matter their race, but it does not include women.
What is the 15th amendment?
200
___________ is known as the President of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
300
Thomas Jefferson made expansion a priority because it would support the ____________ economy he was trying to develop, unlike Hamilton's industrialist ideals.
What is agrarian?
300
Lincoln focused on _________ the south in his Second Inaugural Address. This speech came after four tiring years of war and the near defeat of the Confederacy.
What is rebuild?
300
One reason why the Battle of Gettysburg is significant is because it was the __________ battle of the entire war.
What is largest?
300
The 13th amendment abolishes
What is slavery?
300
This change to the constitution occurred due to the suffrage movement. It allowed women the right to vote.
What is the 19th amendment?
400
Jefferson pushed for the ______________ to be added to the Constitution because he wanted a stronger _________ government.
What is Bill of Rights and federal/central?
400
In one of Lincoln's early speeches "House Divided," he explains that the US cannot be one nation if it does not agree on this issue.
What is slavery?
400
DAILY DOUBLE The Union won control of __________ in Vicksburg on the same day, so with this additional major defeat for South, their hopes to get Union to end war are ended.
What is Mississippi River? (Click the green + twice for 800 points to be added.)
400
One drawback to the Radical Republican's plan was that it was so "extreme" southerners _________ to comply, making the new laws difficult to enforce.
What is refused?
400
Though the Radical Republicans passed laws that allowed slaves to have 40 acres and a mule, original (white) land owners took it back and instituted this instead.
What is sharecropping?
500
Jefferson is celebrated for providing common people a role in the government. This system is also known as a _________.
What is democracy?
500
In his second election, Lincoln appointed this war democrat, who also wanted reunification, as his vice president.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
500
The Battle of Gettysburg happened on which date(s).
What is July 1-3, 1863?
500
___________ a new plantation system – land was divided, each portion going to a family of former slaves. They worked the land, kept ⅒ – ½ of the harvest to sell, and gave the rest to the plantation owner.
What is sharecropping?
500
These restricted many of the rights given to newly freedmen in the south
What is the Black Codes?
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