This is the person who assassinated Abraham Lincoln.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
100
This is the name for a change added to the end of the constitution.
What is an amendment?
100
This is the sad event that took place in a Washington, DC theater in 1865.
What is Abraham Lincoln's assassination?
100
This is the system of farming in the South that was set up to keep plantations running after slaves were freed. It helped newly freed slaves to find jobs, but often prevented them from becoming independent.
What is sharecropping?
100
This is what transcontinental means.
What is across the continent (of North America)?
200
This is the vice president who became president after Lincoln's assassination.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
200
This is the amendment that officially ended slavery, except as a punishment for a crime.
What is the 13th Amendment?
200
This was Lincoln's plan for reuniting the country after the Civil War.
What is letting the Confederate states set up new governments and rejoin the Union?
200
This is one way people helped newly freed slaves gain independence.
What is helping them to vote, setting up schools, and/or helping them find jobs.
200
This is one of the companies that helped create the Transcontinental Railroad.
What is the Central Pacific or the Union Pacific Railroad Company?
300
This is the former Union General who became president after Andrew Johnson and fought for equal rights for all American citizens.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
300
This is the amendment that prevented states from limiting the rights granted to citizens by the federal government.
What is the 14th Amendment?
300
This is one of the ways that southerners tried to limit the voting rights of newly freed slaves.
What is requiring poll taxes, requiring literacy tests for voters, and intimidating voters with violence? (other answers may be acceptable)
300
This is the organization started by the federal government to help newly freed slaves in the South.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
300
This is how the government helped with the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad.
What is giving land and money to the railroad construction companies?
400
This is the woman who marched for women's suffrage and defended the rights of African Americans to equal treatment.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
400
This is the amendment that gave all American men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
400
These laws were passed in the South to limit the rights of newly freed slaves.
What are the Black Codes?
400
These are the people who came south to help newly freed slaves find jobs and register to vote.
Who are Carpetbaggers?
400
This is one positive effect of the railroad on American citizens.
What are increased trade between states, new ideas being exchanged, more people moving to the West, and the development of towns and cities in the West?
500
This is the former slave who started a university for African Americans called the Tuskeegee Institute.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
500
This is the amendment that, in 1920, finally gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
500
These are the laws established in the South that established schools and other public places that were segregated based on race.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
500
This is why newly freed slaves worked so hard to get an education and register to vote.
What is so they could get jobs and be independent, so they could represent their interests in the government, and so they could defend their rights as American citizens? (other answers may be acceptable)
500
These are two of the challenges faced by railroad workers.
What are low pay, dangerous conditions, discrimination, and poor housing?