Civil War
True or False: The Southern States wanted to abolish (end) slavery
False: The Southern States fought to keep slavery going, as their economy depended on it
True or False: Abraham Lincoln was assassinated before the Reconstruction era began.
True, Lincoln was murdered days after the Confederate soldiers surrendered at Appomattox Court
True or False: People still own and display the Confederate Flag today.
True.
Formerly enslaved people were offered forty acres and a ___.
Mule
True or False: The Ku Klux Klan were founded by Confederate veterans in the late 1860s with the purpose of restoring White supremacy and eliminating Black power
True
Who issued the Emancipation Proclamation?
Abraham Lincoln
True or false: The 13th amendment officially abolishes slavery in the United States Constitution.
True, with one key exception.
True or False: There are more statues of Confederate soldiers than Union soldiers in this country.
True.
True or false: During the Civil War, many enslaved people freed themselves.
True, before the Emancipation Proclamation, many enslaved people fled the plantations and sought refuge in the Union army.
True or false: The Black Codes were successful at limiting the influence of Black people in government
True, the Black Codes severely limited the freedom of newly freed Black men
True or false: The Union/North had more resources than the South thanks to their industrial power and higher population.
True, the only advantage the South had over the North were their superior generals
The 13th amendment prohibits slavery, unless you are ___.
Convicted of a crime.
Building a monument, creating a museum, establishing a holiday (like Juneteenth), etc.
True or False: All Black people were slaves before the Civil War.
False, there were those known as the "Freedmen and Freedwomen" who fled or were born in the North and were not under slavery, though their rights weren't protected.
The Black Codes were designed to restrict Black citizen's rights to own property, conduct business, buy and sell land, and move freely through public spaces (there are more possible answers)
True or False: The Emancipation Proclamation called for an end to slavery in ALL the states
False, the Border States (Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri) were excluded
Describe what a mass wedding ceremony of the formerly enslaved would have looked like
Up to 70 couples getting married at a time that weren't recognized as a couple under slavery, big celebration of love in the face of adversity
True or false: Most Confederate statues were built right after the Civil War ended.
False, many were built decades after as a way to romanticize the Antebellum South.
Who was the intellectual, highly capable Black abolitionist that was a key voice in making the war about freedom and the abolition of slavery?
Frederick Douglass
How did "states rights" get abused to restrict African American freedom?
The fate of African Americans was gradually turned over to individual states, who adopted rules that enforced segregation based on race and kept Black men from voting
Who was the general fired by Abraham Lincoln that was potentially a traitor (secretly pro-Confederacy/pro-slavery) and whose statue still sits in front of City Hall?
George B. McClellan
What was the amendment that gave Black men the right to vote?
The 15th amendment
Many were graffiti'd and teared down during BLM protests, a good amount were permanently removed thanks to increased media attention
What did the American Colonization Society want?
The relocation of American-born Blacks in Africa
What was the name of the first Black senator in American history, elected in 1870 by the Mississippi state legislature?
Hiram Rhodes Revels, whose term in the Senate lasted just a year.