Whose vetoes of the Freedmen’s Bureau Act and the Civil Rights Act of 1866 showed that did not support greater rights for Africans Americans in the South?
What is President Andrew Johnson
100
A state government that is run without federal intervention illustrates the idea of what?
What is home rule
100
What is the name of discriminatory laws that severely restricted African Americans lives?
What is Black Codes.
100
Military leadership was an advantage held by which side in the U.S. Civil War?
What is The Confederacy
100
Which group in the Union army faced discrimination, suffered the highest mortality rates, and earned the lowest pay?
What is African Americans
200
Which amendment states that "no one can be kept from voting because of race, color, or former enslavement"
What is The Fifteenth Amendment.
200
The Compromise of 1877 signaled an end to what?
What is Reconstruction
200
Which created an imaginary line that crossed through the western territories?
What is the Compromise of 1820 (Missouri Compromise).
200
The Battle of Gettysburg was considered a turning point in the Civil War because the South could no longer do what?
What is Invade the North
200
When the Civil War began, what was Abraham Lincoln’s main goal?
What is To restore the Union
300
Which amendment states that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States” are citizens of the nation?
What is The Fourteenth Amendment
300
How did the Emancipation Proclamation specifically impact slavery?
What is it freed slaves only in areas of the Confederacy still fighting against the Union.
300
Whose actions at Harper's Ferry increased tensions between the North and the South?
What is John Brown
300
What abolished slavery in the North?
What is The Thirteenth Amendment
300
Grant focused on capturing which city, because it was one of only two Confederate holdouts preventing the Union from taking complete control of the Mississippi River?
What is Vicksburg, Mississippi
400
Why was David Farragut’s victory in April 1862 so important?
What is because it moved the Union closer to achieving the goal of splitting the Confederacy along the Mississippi River.
400
What did Lincoln suspend to deal with dissent in the Union states?
What is The writ of habeas corpus
400
Southerners accused the North of failing to enforce what law?
What is The Fugitive Slave Act of 1793.
400
Grant and Sherman’s strategy of total war targeted the Confederate army, and what else?
What is The civilian population of the South
400
What was the topic of the Lincoln-Douglas debates?
What is Slavery in the western territories.
500
What was Lincoln’s position on slavery?
What is Slavery should not be allowed to spread, because it is morally and politically wrong.
500
Who did the Radical Republicans believe should be in charge of Reconstruction policy?
What is legislative branch of the federal government
500
What Supreme Court decision ruled that slaves did not have rights, and declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional?
What is The Dred Scott Decision
500
What is the main reason that Lincoln did not respond with force to the Confederate threat to attack Fort Sumter?
What is He did not want to anger slave states still in the Union.
500
What are the three parts of the Anaconda Plan?
What is Blockading Southern ports, capturing the Confederate capital, and splitting the Confederacy in two