Civil War
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Potluck
100

The commanding general of Confederate forces.

General Robert E. Lee

100

This Constitutional Amendment permanently ended slavery.

The 13th Amendment.

100

When oil was being refined in the early 1870's, this was the most important product.

Kerosene

100

In what Alabama town did the Klan cause a riot in 1870, as they attempted to assassinate the governor during a Republican rally.

EUTAW

100

He was a famous Black lawman who served in the Oklahoma territory for over 30 years.

Bass Reeves

Daily Triple!

200

U. S. President during the Civil War.

Abraham Lincoln

200

This Greene County prosecutor was murdered by the Klan in Eutaw in 1870 for trying to prosecute Klan members for murdering Black men.

Alexander Boyd

200

This man bought into the steel industry just after development of the Bessemer Process, He went on to become the owner of most of the Steel production in America by 1900.

Andrew Carnegie

200

What is the name of the town destroyed by a flood created by the collapse of a dam at the South Fork Country Club?

Johnstown

200

Who was the Black woman journalist that became known as the leading voice against lynching?

Ida B. Wells

300

He was the commanding general of the U. S. Army for the second half of the Civil War.

General U. S. Grant

300

This constitutional amendment required states to provide "equal protection of the law" and "due process."

14th Amemdment

300

By 1910, this man controlled over 90% of oil refining in the United States.

J. D. Rockefeller

300

This was the Black section of Tulsa, OK. By 1920, it was the most prosperous Black urban area in America.

Greenwood

300

He was the commanding officer who led his men in an ambush at Little Bighorn in 1876.

George Custer

400

The super-rich slaveholders of the antebellum South called themselves this.

Planters

400

This Constitutional Amendment officially recognized the right of Black men to vote.

the 15th Amendment

400

This chemist helped create Standard Oil, but left after he became disgusted by Rockefellers disregard for their workers.

Samuel Andrews

(Daily Double)

400

This event caused America's first Great Depression.

The Panic of 1873 (railroad bubble burst)

400

This man was born a slave, but later founded Tuskegee University.

Booker T. Washington

500

In what state was the Battle of Antietam fought?

Virginia

Daily Double

500

Following the Civil War, southern states passed these laws designed to arrest formerly enslaved people and return them to work in the Planter's fields.

Black Codes

Daily Double

500

Name three things that the employees wanted when they went on strike at Homestead Steel in 1892?

better pay, shorter hours, safer working conditions

500

This man was the manager of Carnegie Steel and the victim of a shooting/stabbing following the Homestead Steel Strike.

Henry Frick

500

Who was the first woman to become a self-made millionaire?

Madame C. J. Walker