People
The first African-American to be elected into the House of Representatives.
Who is Joseph Rainey?
The first Civil War battle took place here.
What is Fort Sumter?
A series of violent events involving abolitionists and pro-slavery in Kansas-Nebraska.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
Abraham Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address speech.
What is 1863?
a perennial tropical grass with tall stout jointed stems from which sugar is extracted.
What is sugar Cane?
The first African-American senator.
Who is Hiram Revels?
The Black Codes were first passed here.
What is Mississippi?
The period after the Civil War between 1865 and 1877 focused on rebuilding the South.
What is Reconstruction?
The 15th Amendment was passed.
What is 1869?
recently freed Black people were promised land to start independent lives—but Lincoln's assassination led to that plan's demise.
What is 40 Acres and a mule?
This person was a radical republican who believed in harsh punishments for the south.
Who is Thaddeus Stevens?
Confederate general Robert E. Lee surrendered at this courthouse in Virginia.
What is the Appomattox Courthouse?
Issued by Abraham Lincoln on September 22, 1862, it declared that all slaves in the Confederate states would be free.
What is the Emancipation Proclaimation?
The 14th Amendment was passed.
What is 1866?
This clause created requirements to vote based on whether or not your ancestors voted before 1867.
What is the Grandfather Clause?
The only black senator to be elected full term until Edward Brooke in 1966.
Who is Blanche K. Bruce?
This was the first state to secede from the Union.
What is South Carolina?
The 3-minute speech by Abraham Lincoln in 1863.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
The 13th Amendment was passed.
What is 1865
the machine that revolutionized cotton production by greatly speeding up the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber.
What is a cotton gin?
This Person was the President during reconstruction era.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This line separated the north and the south.
What is the Mason-Dixon Line?
A plan that required voters in the South to take a loyalty oath.
What is the 10% plan?
Ulysses S. Grant signed the KKK(Klu KLux Klan) act.
What is 1871?
Began as early as 1865, laws that limited black rights.
What are Jim Crow Laws?