Civil War
According to founding Confederate documents, the Civil War was fought over this issue.
What is slavery?
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
This was one challenge the U.S. had to deal with during Reconstruction.
What was how to reunite the Union, what do with former enslaved, what to do with former Confederate officials, how to rebuild the South?
What is the 13th Amendment?
At the start of the war, this was Lincoln's main goal.
What is preserving the Union
He was the commander of the Confederate army.
Who was Robert E. Lee?
White supremacist groups such as this one did all they could to resist Reconstruction policies.
What was the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
It freed all enslaved people in the rebelling states during the Civil War.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
What is the Union?
By the end of the Civil War, he was the main commander of the Union Army.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
The political party that was responsible for most Reconstruction policies.
What was the Republican party?
What were Black Codes?
It changed the focus of the war to include ending slavery.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
He was the 17th President of the United States.
This government group was formed to ensure the protection of African Americans in the South as well enforce Reconstruction policies.
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
It granted African-American men the right to vote.
What was the 15th Amendment?
What is over 620,000?
A compromise that allowed the election of this man to the presidency led to the end of Reconstruction.
Who was Rutherford B. Hayes?
The name of the compromise that led to the end of Reconstruction.
What was the Compromise of 1877?
It guaranteed equal rights and citizenship to African Americans.
What was the 14th Amendment?