The Republican president during the Civil War
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
These amendments freed enslaved people, promised citizenship to all people born in America, and gave African American men the right to vote.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments?
This was the war between North and South over the core issue of slavery.
What is the Civil War?
This social movement believed in the ending of the slave trade
What is abolition?
This was a period of immense political and social progress for emancipated African Americans.
What is Radical Reconstruction?
The Democratic president who took over after Lincoln's assassination
Who is Andrew Johnson?
The action that freed all enslaved people in rebelling states
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This war led to the expansion of American West and acquired the California, Utah, and Colorado territories.
What is the Mexican-American War?
This social movement believed in the outlawing of alcohol.
What is the temperance movement?
This terrorist group became popular in the south after emancipation
Who are the KKK?
The mastermind behind the Civil War compromises
Who is Henry Clay?
These are white Southerners who supported Reconstruction policies
Who are scalawags?
This ship was blown up, leading to the Spanish-American War.
What is the USS Maine?
This famous LDS leader led the Mormon settlers to Utah.
Who is Brigham Young?
This system of farming kept formerly enslaved people connected to their masters.
What is sharecropping?
Who was Eli Whitney?
These organizations attempted to influence election outcomes, use bribery to get votes and manipulate politicians, and rapidly gained control of local politics.
What is a political machine?
This battle was known as "The Bloodiest Day in American History"
What is the Battle of Antietam?
This religious moment is characterized by magical thinking and "speaking in tongues"
What is Pentacostalism?
These are laws passed in Southern states that restricted travel and other activities of freed slaves
What are Black Codes?
This woman attacked bars with a hatchet, in an effort to end alcohol consumption.
Who is Carrie Nation?
A landmark court decision in the United States that deemed residents of Asian descent ineligible for naturalization
What is In re ah yup?
Who was Jefferson Davis?
This man organized a violent uprising, in which he provided enslaved people with weapons to kill their oppressors.
Who is John Brown?
The organization that provided education and helped to connect formerly enslaved family members after emancipation.
What is the Freedman's Bureau?