Civil War Context
The central issue dividing the North and the South
What is slavery
The Congress's Plan for Reconstruction passed in July 1864
What is the Wade-Davis Bill
An HBCU created out of Reconstruction located in Washington, D.C.
What is Howard University
The Democratic candidate for President
Who is Samuel Tilden
A fee African Americans had to pay to vote in the South
What is a poll tax
The President elected in 1860
Who was Abraham Lincoln
President Lincoln and Congress created this in March of 1865 to help African American's adjust to life after slavery
What is the Freedman's Bureau
The Act that guaranteed African Americans could not later be taken away by passing another law
What is The Civil Rights Act of 1866
A group of officials chosen for the specific responsibility of deciding which Presidential candidate should receive the disputed votes in the Election of 1876
What is a commission
The South's main cash crop
What is cotton
The number of Southern states that seceded from the Union and formed the Confederate States of America in 1861
What is 11
Became the President after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln
Who is Andrew Johnson
What Amendment states that "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."
What is the 14th Amendment
An outcome as a result of the Compromise of 1877 that the South took to deny African Americans equal rights
What are Jim Crow Laws
A white supremacist organization born out of the resistance to Reconstruction that continued to instill fear and create violence for African Americans and their supporters
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
Name a battle that was a key turning point for the North
What was the Battle of Gettyburg, Antietam or Vicksburg
A group who favored a more radical approach to Reconstruction
Who are the Radical Republicans
The Amendment that abolished slavery
What is the 13th Amendment
An Act which guaranteed African-Americans equal rights in public places and utilities; such as restaurants, theatres and transportation
What is The Civil Rights Act of 1875
African American soldiers were called this by the Apache and Cheyenne
Who are Buffalo Soldiers
The number of casualties as a result of the Civil War
What is over 600,000
An African American who sued because his rights were violated according to the 14th Amendment ruled against by the Supreme Court
Who was Homer Plessy
The political party that supported equal rights and freedoms for African American
What is the Republican Party
Name 3 of the 4 states that disputed the results of the election
What are Florida, South Carolina, Oregon or Louisiana
Formerly enslaved people who left the South for a better life
Who were the Exodusters