Freeing the slaves in the Southern States just to aggravate the South.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
100
The right given to Union soldiers to seize all property, including enslaved Africans from the Confederates
What is the confiscation act?
100
Outlawed involuntary servitude in the United States
What is the 13th Amendment?
100
This group wanted to prevent the spread of slavery into the West.
Who are the Republicans?
100
This group's goal was to address the problems faced by African Americans after slavery ended.
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
200
Africans and Whites are not equal and can not coexist in the same socitey
What is Lincolns views about slaves?
200
When African Americans were forced to work as cooks, gravediggers, laborers, nurses, scouts and spies even though they were not enlisted.
What is an irregular?
200
African Americans become citizens in the states where they live
What is the 14th Amendment?
200
This group was in favor of slavery and wanted it to spread all over the Union
Who are the Democrats?
200
Masters were paid $300.00 to sell their slaves. Slaves were paid $100.00 to leave the country and go to Africa.
What is the Compensated Emancipation Act?
300
Lincoln was viewed as an abolitionist
What the South felt about Abraham Lincoln or what slaves thought about Lincoln
300
75 Commissioned African American Officers in the army during the Civil War
Sergeant Major Christian Fleetwood and Sergeant William Carney received the Congressional Medal of Honor
What are some of the accomplishments of African Americans during the Civil War?
300
Guaranteed African American men the right to vote
What is the 15th Amendment?
300
Georgia, South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Texas and Louisiana
What are the first 7 states to secede from the Union?
300
Forced Black people back into "slavery conditions" and denied them their Civil Rights
What is the Black Codes?
400
" My main goal is to keep the Union together."
" I have no desire to interfere with slavery where it always exist."
What are the ways Lincoln flip flops on being for and against slavery?
400
Fighting for freedom, desiring to show bravery and skill, as a way to permanently escape slavery
What were reasons African Americans fought in the Civil War?
400
This law was put into place to stop Southern States from segregating hotels, movies, and barber shops, etc.
What is The Civil Rights Act of 1875?
400
The firing on Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861
What started the Civil War?
400
Vetoed the extension of the Freedman's Bureau
Welcomed the Southern States back into the Union with no consequences
Allowed the states to create the "Black Codes" in order to prevent African Americans from having any rights
Who is Andrew Johnson?
500
Colonization (the sending of Africans back to Africa) is the answer to the race problem in the Union.
What is the thoughts Lincoln had on convincing slave masters to free their slaves and preserve the Union
500
This celebration marks the news of emancipation arriving in Texas 2 1/2 year after it actually took place.
What is Juneteenth?
500
Equal protection is guaranteed to all citizens within the state where they reside
What is Reconstruction Act of 1867?
500
This man was elected President of the Confederate states. His seat was later filled by an African American named Hiram Revels, after the Civil War.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
500
This group nullified the Civil Rights Act of 1875 which made it legal to segregate at the movies, barber shops, restaurants, etc.