American Civil War
This person was president of the Union at the start of the American Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This person became president after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated and became the leader of "presidential" Reconstruction.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
True or False: World War I lasted 4 years, from 1914-1918.
True
Native Americans in the Plains region often used these types of homes because they were easy to put up and take down, which was useful for buffalo herd hunting.
What are teepees?
This city is where Brianna is from (raised).
Where is Memphis?
This is the name we gave the states that joined together to secede from the United States of America and formed their own nation (of sorts).
What is the Confederacy?
This emerged after slavery as a form of "new" slavery that kept the farmer indebted to the farm owner as the owner owned the land, the seeds, the tools, the price of produce, etc. They would "pay" their workers for a share of the crop they gave to them often at unfair and ridiculously low prices.
What is sharecropping?
The United States of American didn't join the war until 1917 on account of this type of foreign policy.
What is isolationism?
Name the three crops that became known as the "three sisters" by the Iroquois people.
What are corn, squash, and beans?
This is where Brianna's brother lives currently.
Where is Los Angeles?
Name the two leaders of the Confederacy.
Who is Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee?
Universities like Fiske and Howard were created during Reconstruction thanks in part to this organization that lasted from 1865 to 1872.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This type of warfare is extremely traumatic for soldiers and was the main type of warfare in World War I.
What is trench warfare?
The Bray School was located in this city and would serve over 400 free and enslaved students between 1760 and 1774.
Where is Williamsburg, Virginia?
This is where Brianna and Laura lived while they got their masters.
Where is Leiden, the Netherlands?
Name the four border states during the American Civil War.
What is Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri?
These three amendments became known as the "Reconstruction Amendments." Name them.
*Bonus - if you name what they DID.
*Bonus -
13th - Freed all of the slaves
14th - Defined citizenship
15th - Gave African American men the right to vote.
The person who assasinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand was from this country and held this type of belief about his country.
What is a Serbian nationalist?
This law was passed in 1647 and required towns with 50+ households to provide a "petty school" (elementary school).
What is the "Old Deluder Satan Act?"
This is where Nick Guadiana is from.
Where is California?
This general led a "scorched earth" campaign through Georgia as Ulysses S. Grant was working to capture the Confederate capitol.
Who is William T. Sherman?
This act launched what we refer to as "Radical Reconstruction" and created 5 military districts, removed the previously all white governments of the South, and had to ratify the 14th amendment in order to maintain status in the Union. This began a time of rapid change for African American communities in the South.
What is the Reconstruction Act of 1867?
This term was created by Gertrude Stein and Ernest C. Hemingway to describe the existential dread and general disillusionment felt by many young people as a result of the war.
What is "the lost generation"?
This war "changed everything" when it came to colonists and their view of their relationship to Britain.
What is "The Seven Years War?"
This is where Brianna was born.
Where is Salem, Massachusetts?