In 1862, the Confederate congress passed a draft law requiring three years of military service for white men ages _____ to ______.
What is 18 and 35?
100
In 1862, Congress passed a law allowing the federal government to give land and money to companies for construction of a railroad line from Nebraska to the Pacific Coast.
What is the Pacific Railroad Act?
100
Lincoln proclaimed that on January 1, 1863, slaves in areas of rebellion against the government would be free.
What is Emancipation Proclamation?
200
A national currency (because of the color)
What is greenbacks?
200
The year of the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is 1863?
200
The Confederate government also authorized the army to seize male _____________ for military labor.
What are slaves?
200
The North instituted a draft and if a man had ___________, he could dodge the draft.
What is $ 300?
200
By 1865, nearly 180,000 African American or _________ made up the Union forces.
What is 10%?
300
Items seized from the enemy during wartime.
What is contraband?
300
The Emancipation Proclamation freed all of the slaves in states under _______________ control.
What is Confederate?
300
The Confederate government required farmers to contribute ___________ of their produce to the war effort.
What is 1/10 or 10%?
300
In 1861, the Republican-controlled Congress passed the first federal ___________ on income in American History.
What is tax?
300
This war had more causalities than all other U.S. war combined.
What is the Civil War?
400
This is emergency rule by military authorities.
What is martial law?
400
Although the proclamation did not bring an immediate end to slavery, it promised that enslaved people would be _________ when the ____________ won the war.
What is free and North?
400
The Confederate government seized control of Southern ______________ from private owners during the war.
What are railroads?
400
This federal agency collects our income taxes>
What is Internal Revenue Service or the IRS?
400
He was the president of the Confederate States of America?
What is Jefferson Davis?
500
Official acceptance as an independent nation.
What is recognition?
500
The proclamation did nothing to free people enslaved in the ____________ states, nor did it free slaves living in Confederate areas controlled by Union forces.
What is border?
500
It is estimated that perhaps _____________ of Confederate men eligible for the draft failed to cooperate.
What is 1/4 or 25%?
500
The federal government passed an act that allowed free government lands to people who were will to settle them.
What is the Homestead Act?
500
This state was the first state to secede the union of the United States. Kevin Garnett was born in this state.