Civil War
The Civil War was fought during which of these years?
a.) 1865-1870
b.) 1860-1866
c.) 1861-1865
c.) 1861-1865
The KKK was founded in what year?
a.) 1860
b.) 1865
c.) 1870
b.) 1865
Reconstruction started during the Civil War in some people's opinion. It definitely ended in this year.
a.) 1873
b.)1875
c.) 1877
c.) 1877
To change from a fluid to a solid state is to
a.) conceal
b.) congeal
c.) conceive
b.) congeal
Taxes on imports are called _______?
a.) Tariffs b.) Poll taxes c.) Income taxes
a.) Tariffs
a.) Cherokee b.) Sioux c.) Osage
c.) Osage
The modern Civil Rights Era began in this decade
a.) the 1920s (after the Tulsa massacre)
b.) the 1940s (after WWII)
c.) the 1950s
c.) the 1950s
The Southern States that were fighting to preserve slavery were collectively called the
a.) Confederacy
b.) Union
c.) Neither A or B
a.) Confederacy
The KKK was founded in what state?
a.) Kentucky
b.) North Carolina
c.) Tennessee
c.) Tennessee
This political party was opposed to (against) Reconstruction efforts to make sure African Americans (former slaves) were given equal rights.
a.) Democrats b.) Whigs c.) Republicans
a.) Democrats
Being deprived of the right to vote is known as
a.) disinvestment
b.) disternation
c.) disenfranchisement
c.) disenfranchisement
This museum in Paris, France was the site of the theft of jewels worth $102,000.000.00 dollars
a.) The French National Museum
b.) The Bordeaux
c.) The Louvre
c.) The Louvre
This group helped end Reconstruction because they feared Northern workers would want more money and better working conditions
a.) Capitalists b.) Democrats c.) White Racists
a.) Capitalists
This Amendment to the U.S. Constitution forbids any state from taxing people for voting
a.) the 24th Amendment
b.) the 26th Amendment
c.) the 30th Amendment
a.) the 24th Amendment
Lincoln's order in 1863 that allowed Union armies to free slaves ONLY in areas of the South conquered by the North was called
a.) The 13th Amendment b.) The Anti Slave Act
c.) The Emancipation Proclamation
c.) The Emancipation Proclamation
The six people who founded the original KKK all had this in common
a.) They all were former members of the Confederate Army
b.) They all were from Tennessee
c.) They all were over the age of 60
a.) They all were members of the Confederate Army
How did the North (the Union) force the Southern states (former Confederate slave holding states) to follow the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments during Reconstruction?
a.) they had their armies in the Southern states
b.) they made the Southern states promise they would follow the Amendments
c.) they did not allow any former Confederate soldiers or former slave owners to vote ever again
a.) they had their armies in the Southern states from 1865-1877
Another term that means the same as drafted (like drafted into the army)
a.) conscripted b.) contrived c.) conceived
a.) conscripted
The U.S. military has attacked 7 ships/boats from this country, killing 30 people. The U.S. claim is that these people are carrying drugs in their vessels headed to the U.S. .
a) Colombia b.) Venezuela c.) Brazil
a.) Colombia OR b.) Venezuela
The Tulsa Massacre occurred in _________ (year) and in ________ (state).
a.) 1920/Kansas
b.) 1923/Georgia
c.) 1921/Oklahoma
c.) 1921/Oklahoma
The U.S. Supreme Court case Brown vs. Board of Education made __________ illegal/unconstitutional in schools.
a.) literacy tests b.) segregation
c.) guns
b.) segregation
This side in the Civil War had more people, more resources and more industry (ability to make stuff for war).
a.) Confederacy b.) Union
b.) Union
The original KKK committed acts of violence primarily against this group of people. Raise your hand question.
African Americans/newly freed former slaves
Sharecropping was a type of farming in which___
a.) former slaves rented land to grow crops from former slave owners under an unreasonable conditions
b.) former slaves shared food they grew with each other
c.) Former slaves were given crops grown by former slave owners
a.) former slaves rented land to grow crops from former slave owners under an unreasonable conditions
This word, when used as a noun, means a heroic deed or action.
a.) exploit b.) exposition
c.) bastion
a.) exploit
Recently Israeli hostages held by this organization were released.
a.) Isis
b.) Hezbollah
c.) Hamas
c.) Hamas
Peter Francis was killed by 5 white hunters from Massachusetts in Maine in 1965. They were never convicted of a crime. Francis was a/an
a.) African American b.) Mexican American
c.) Native American
c.) Native American
The Birmingham Baptist Church Bombing occurred in 1963 and but trials for those responsible did not occur until______?
a.) 1977 b.) 1987 c.) 1997
Most soldiers who lost their lives during the Civil War died of
a.) bullet wounds
b.) cannon ball wounds
c.) disease
c.) disease
Daily Double -You will bet 1/2 of what you have. Everyone participates. You will write the answer. Call someone from your team up.
Name two groups that the KKK harassed in Maine in the early 1900s. There are three possible answers.
True or False
No former Confederate soldiers were allowed to vote or run for political office after the Civil War because that is what part of the 13th Amendment said.
False-Almost all Confederate soldiers who survived the Civil War were allowed to vote and run for political office eventually
This word means to make something less severe or easier to do.
a.) alleviate b.) elevate c.) collate
a.) alleviate
Maine's present governor Janet Mills has announced she will
a.) run for governor again
b.) run for U.S. Senate
c.) run for U.S. House of Representatives
b.) run for U.S. Senate
Eugene Williams drowning death was the event that ignited the __________Race Riots of 1919.
a.) Chicago b.) Tulsa
c.) Philadelphia
a.) Chicago
Martin Luther King Jr gave his I have a dream speech during the March on
a.) Selma
b.) Greensboro
c.) Washington
c.) Washington
Which former U.S. President was NOT a Civil War veteran
a.) Chester Arthur b.) William McKinley
c.) Rutherford Hayes d.) Ulysses Grant
a.) Chester Arthur
What decade did the KKK have the most members?
a.) 1870s b.) 1920s c.) 1960s
b.) 1920s
Reconstruction ended because this President agreed to end it if he was elected by Congress after neither candidate for President won enough electoral votes
a.) James Buchanan b.) Andrew Johnson
c.) Rutherford B. Hayes d.) James A. Garfield
c.) Rutherford B. Hayes
Someone who really can understand how someone else feels is considered
a.) a misogynist
b.) perceptive
c.) disingenuous
b.) perceptive
Maine has started to offer free blood tests to farmers exposed to high levels of _______?
a.) Round up (pesticide)
b.) PFAS (forever chemicals)
c.) Radon ( a cancer causing agent in water)
b.) PFAS
Bonus
If you are not in first this gives you enough point to be in first. If you re in first-600 points. No penalty for wrong answer. If both happen then their is a tie for first.
What was the Lewiston shooters full name.
Raise your hand round. First to raise it must answer immediately.
Why were the residents of Malaga island removed? What was it about them that bothered others in the state of Maine.