Civil War
What were the northern states called during the Civil War?
What were the southern state called during the Civil War?
The Confederacy
The name of the time in History after the Civil War to readmit the southern states into the United States?
Reconstruction
What Amendment to the Constitution officially ended slavery in the United States?
13th Amendment
How would you define 'Segregation'?
Separating one or more groups of people based on race, religion, ethnicity, etc.
During most of the Civil War, who was the President of the northern states?
Who became the American President at the very end of the Civil War?
Andrew Johnson
Whose plan to rebuild the south after the Civil War relied on 10% of the population eligible to vote to swear allegiance to the US Government?
Lincoln's
What Amendment to the Constitution gave black males the right to vote in America?
15th
Once upon a time, what court case said that segregation was legal in as long as equal facilities were present?
Plessy vs Ferguson
During the Civil War, where was the capitol of the southern states?
Richmond, Virginia.
What 4 years did the Civil War last?
1861-1865
Who's plan for bringing the southern states back into the US was for dividing the Southern States into 5 military zones and giving back southern land to black Americans in the south?
The Radical Republicans
Although after the Civil War ended, Black Men received the right to vote in America. What were two ways that southern states tried to stop black men from exercising this right?
Poll Taxes, and Literacy Tests
What were the name of laws that supported 'Separate but Equal' in public places?
Jim Crow
What was the name group setup during and after the Civil War that assisted former slaves, and anyone else with employment, housing and educational opportunities in southern States at this time?
The Freedmen's Bureau
How many southern states seceded, or 'broke away' from the US when the Civil War began?
11
In bring the southern states back into the US, which American president was not going to interfere with the Southern States reorganizing state governments and state laws just as they were before the Civil War?
Andrew Johnson
What did the 14th Amendment say about the ways a person can become an American citizen?
Anyone born in the US, or Naturalized in the US can become a US Citizen.
What court case happened in Topeka, Kansas in 1954 to end segregation in public schools?
Brown vs. Board of Education
All slaves in the south were no longer bound to slavery. 1863
Which was the 1st Civil War state to break apart from the US?
South Carolina
Name one of the Radical Republicans who fought for Congressional Reconstruction?
Thaddeus Stevens
Equal Protection of the Laws
What American President passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Lyndon Johnson