Civil War I
Amendments
Civil War II
Reconstruction
Miscellaneous
100
The name of the country that the southern states created.
What is the Confederate States of America?
100
The first amendment has the following five parts: speech, religion, ____________, assembly, press.
What is petition?
100
Abraham Lincoln: Union; __________ : Confederacy.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
100
The era that brought Southern states back into the Union.
What is Reconstruction?
100
The group that restricted African American Civil Rights with threats and violence.
What is the KKK (Klu Klux Klan)?
200
First state to secede from the Union.
What is South Carolina?
200
This amendment protects you from having soldiers stay in your home during times of peace.
What is the third amendment?
200
The main reason for the civil war was ____________.
What are States' rights?
200
Federal agency set up to help freedmen, free African Americans, adjust and to set up schools to educate them in the south.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
200
Set up agricultural and mining colleges to help settle the West. (Act)
What is the Morrill Act (1861)?
300
General of the Union forces?
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
300
Any powers not given to the government in the constitution are given to the state, or to the people.
What is the tenth amendment?
300
This was the bloodiest day of the Civil War.
What is Battle of Antietam?
300
These "laws" limited the civil rights and freedom of movement of the freedmen in the South.
What are "Black Codes"?
300
The terms used for Northerners who took control of southern government during Reconstruction. (Two terms)
What are Carpetbaggers and Scalawags?
400
This was the man who killed Abraham Lincoln.
Who was John Wilkes Booth?
400
This does not deny the power to vote base based on race.
What is the 15th amendment?
400
The site General Lee surrendered to General Grant.
What is Appomattox Court House?
400
When Congress divided the South governed by the army. Caused former Confederate leaders to lose political rights.
What is Military Reconstruction?
400
Made cheap land available to settlers.
What is Homestead Act of (1862)?
500
This General marched troops West across Georgia to the sea.
Who is General William Sherman?
500
This amendment protects people from cruel and unusual punishment.
What is the 8th amendment?
500
This battle allowed the Union to gain control of the Mississippi river.
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
500
An act mean to help Native Americans, but caused them to lose their remaining tribal land.
What is the Dawes Act?
500
The president who was impeached because he was too lenient on the South.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
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