Andrew Johnson faced an impeachment trial. Was he removed from office?
What is No
100
Who surrendered and where did he surrender to end the Civil War?
What is Lee at Appomattox Court House in Virginia
100
Who was the President of the U.S.A. during the Civil War?
Who is Abraham Lincoln
100
What is the word to describe when the Southern states left the union?
What is Secession or Secede
100
What are the first ten amendments added to the Constitution known as?
What are the Bill of Rights
200
A name for Northerners who moved down to the South during Reconstruction.
What are Carpetbaggers
200
The time period of rebuilding in the South after the Civil War.
What is Reconstruction
200
Which state was the first state to secede from the Union?
What is South Carolina
200
Explain the Blockade strategy of the North, what advantage did the north have that allowed them to use this tactic?
What is they had a larger navy, and they used it to cut off trade from the major southern seaports
200
Which amendment contains the five basic freedoms?
What is the first
300
Laws that segregated people by race in the Southern States
What is Jim Crow Laws
300
A Federal Agency that helped the newly freed slaves and needy whites in the Southern states after the Civil War.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau
300
Jefferson Davis held this title during the Civil War.
What is President of the Confederacy
300
What was the official goal of the Union at the start of the war?
What is restore the Union
300
Which of the following is not a part of the U.S. Constitution?
a. Preamble
b. Declaration of Independence
c. The Articles
d. Amendments
What is B: the Declaration of Independence
400
What was the nickname for the Republicans that wanted to punish the south and make drastic changes to southern society during Reconstruction?
What are Radical Republicans
400
Who was the President that followed Abraham Lincoln and faced an impeachment trial?
Who is Andrew Johnson
400
Who was the final commanding general of the Union forces? Full Name!!
Who is Ulysses S. Grant
400
Which battle was considered the turning point in the war, when lee tried to invade the North for the second time but was defeated?
What is Gettysburg
400
Which amendment protects you from unreasonable search and seizure?
What is the 4th
500
What happened in the court case of Plessy v. Ferguson?
What is African American Homer Plessy sued to fight segregation on a train, the court ruled that segregation was constitutional if separate facilities were “Separate but Equal” even though the usually were not equal.
500
What did the 13th 14th and 15th amendments do for African Americans?
What is 13th =Freed the Slaves, 14th Gave newly freed slaves citizenship, 15th Gave African American men the right to vote
500
Who said, "It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion."
Who is Abraham Lincoln
500
Why did Lincoln establish martial law in the loyal Border States at the start of the war and what does that mean?
What is to keep more states from seceding, it means those states were put under the control of the military with limited civil rights.
500
Power of the Supreme Court to declare laws passed by congress or acts of the president are unconstitutional