US History unit 3

Pop Culture

100

This precurser to tiktok allowed only 7 seconds for people to make videos. Enough time to say "look at all these chickens"

Vine

200

This horror classic features a young Jamie Lee Curtis facing off against a crazy man in a mask with a knife. The only thing scarier is how hard the franchise jumped the shark in the 1990s.

Halloween

300

This fictional doctor is well known for having to fight a platypus and surviving multiple explosions. Just hope he does not curse you

Doctor Doof

400

After releasing his mixtape "Harder than Hard" artist Dominique Armani Jones is better known as this.

Lil Baby

500

This actor kept his distance at the end of 2021 after Taylor Swift rereleased all too well, a song about their incredibly toxic relationship.

Jake Gyllenhaal

Reconstruction

100

The primary reason for reconstruction after the civil war can be best described as

a. To rebuild the south after the civil war

b. Support the newly freed population

c. punish the south

d. help the United states after the assassination of lincoln

A.

200

These 3 ammendments are called the reconstruction ammendments

13, 14, 15

300

During reconstruction, this term for northerners coming to the south for business became increasingly popular.

a. Scalawag

b. Confederate

c. Carpetbagger

d. Radical Republican

C

400

True or false: Reconstruction is believed to have been a total failure

True

500

This organization sought to help the newly freed black population in the south, providing education and legal help when needed. Ultimately, it was a very corrupt institution

The Freedman's Bureau 

Civil War

100

This civil war battle was the biggest and bloodiest

The Battle of Gettysburg

200

This man was the president of the United States during the civil war.

Abraham Lincoln

300

This man cut Lincoln's second term very short at Ford's Theater in Washington DC. 

A. Ulysses S. Grant

B. General Sherman

C. Robert E. Lee

D. John Wilkes Boothe

D.

400

At the end of the Civil War, this destructive campaign ran across the south, burning many cities to the ground including Atlanta and Savannah.

Sherman's march to the sea

500

Many people say that slavery was about "states rights." However, more evidence points to this as the root cause of the Civil War

Slavery

Ammendments

100

This constitutional amenmdment abolished slavery

13th

200

This constitutional ammendment gave men of color the ability to vote.

15th amendment

300

This constitutional amendment defined citizenship and garuntees equal protection under law.

14th

400

True or false, the innitial push for the 13th ammendment in 1861 sought to protect slavery within the constitution.

True

500

The emancipation proclamation differs from the 13th ammendment in that

a. It ended slavery

b. It freed slaves in states of open rebellion

c. It guarunteed equality

d. It gave black men the right to vote

B

Rise of Jim Crowe

100

This white supremecist group rose to prominence the first time starting in 1866 and consistently harassed black Americans throughout reconstruction

The KKK

200

This exam was given to anyone who could not prove a 5th grade education. If you got a question wrong, you would be unable to vote

literacy test

300

This was a series of laws passed in southern states to undermine attempts at achieving equality. They intensified after reconstruction ended.

black codes/jim crowe laws

400

Finish the quote as it pertains to Plessy vs Fergusson: Separate but

a. Equitable

b. Evangelical

c. Equal

d. Good

C

500

Poll taxes, the grandfather clause and literacy tests were all tools used for this purpose

preventing the newly freed population from voting