Rebuilding the South
This United States agency helped formerly enslaved people with education, housing, and food.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
This person took over the presidency after Lincoln was assassinated.
Who was Andrew Johnson?
This amendment banned slavery.
What was the 13th Amendment?
This river flows through Allentown.
What is the Lehigh River?
This Asian country hosted the first Starbucks outside of the United States.
What is Japan?
This farming system kept freedmen in poverty by having them work land in exchange for a portion of crops.
What is sharecropping?
This group in Congress wished to protect the rights of freemen.
Who were the Radical Republicans?
This amendment allowed children born in the United States to be given citizenship.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This amusement park opens three days after my birthday.
What is Dorney Park? (May 9th, 2025)
This is what 'www' means.
What is the World Wide Web?
This region of the United States was left the most destroyed after the Civil War.
What is the South?
This term describes when Congress took over Reconstruction from the President.
What is Congressional Reconstruction?
This amendment gave African-American men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This team plays baseball in Allentown.
Who are the Iron Pigs?
This is the piece of plastic at the end of your shoe.
What is an aglet?
This set of laws was passed by Southern states to control African-American citizens.
What are Black Codes?
These were Northerners who moved South to profit from the rebuilding efforts of the South.
Who were carpetbaggers?
This Act gave African-Americans equal rights in public spaces (which was not enforced well).
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
This historical artifact was hidden in Allentown during the Revolutionary War.
What is the Liberty Bell?
This is the heaviest organ in the human body.
What is skin?
This process marked a change in the economy of the South
What is industrialization?
This was the reason that Andrew Johnson was impeached.
What was firing a member of his cabinet without Congressional approval?
This was the purpose of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments.
What is attempting to secure rights for former slaves?
This important material was produced in the 1800s.
What is iron/steel?
This is the official term for a group of owls.
What is a parliament?