Beliefs
Civil War 1
Civil War 2
Technology & Random
Reconstruction
100

a widely held belief that incorporating new territory was sanctioned by God

What is Manifest Destiny

100

The event most directly linked to the secession of the Southern states

What is the election of 1860 -or- the election of Lincoln

100

Many Southerners thought that this issue BESIDES slavery was a cause to secede from the Union.

What is State's Rights

100

What mode of transportation did the North build and use throughout the war?

What are railroads

100

Those who believed that blacks should be granted rights and Southerners deserved punishment

Who are Radical Republicans

200

White settlement in the West was greatly aided by this Civil War-era law

What is the Homestead Act

200

General in charge of the Armies of the Confederate States of America

Who is Robert E. Lee

200

General in charge of leading U.S. troops after 1863 through the end of the War; elected president in 1868 (took office in 1869)

Who is Ulysses S. Grant

200

What mode of communication did the North use throughout the war?

What is the telegraph

200

The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments

What is abolish slavery, guaranteed citizenship, granted voting rights

300

The Supreme Court opinion that excluded African-Americans from citizenship rights in the United States

What is Dred Scott

300

The [military] strategies that effectively stifled Southern resources and destroyed infrastructure

What is the Anaconda Plan and Sherman's March

300

this 1863 address begins with the words, “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” 

50 bonus points: If a score is 20 years, to which year is Lincoln referring?

Gettysburg Address; 


87 years; 1776

300

Who was the famous female nurse during the Civil War (also founded the Red Cross?)

Who is Clara Barton

300

What legislation protected the citizenship and protection of African Americans 2 years before the 14th Amendment? (Hint: it was vetoed by Johnson, but overridden by Congress)

What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866

400

The actions and events associated with Manifest Destiny can be linked to this belief - a continuity from colonial times

What is racial/cultural superiority

400

Lincoln claimed this right under the presidential war powers that allowed prisoners to be held without charge.

Suspension of Habeas Corpus

400

Alabama, Florida, South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas.

What were the first states to secede following Lincoln's election in 1860?

400

Radical Republicans would have believed in what types of things?

Civil Rights for All, Anti-Slavery, Harsh Punishment on Southerners, Equality, Universal Male Suffrage

400

Southern laws enacted in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by white Southern Democrat-dominated state legislatures to disenfranchise and remove political and economic gains made by black people during the Reconstruction period

Jim Crow Laws/Black Codes

500

The three main pieces of evidence used by Southerners to defend slavery as a positive good

What are the Bible, racial inferiority, and industrial comparisons

500

The Northern and Western victories that turned the tide of the war for the Union

What is Gettysburg and Vicksburg

500

The threefold purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation

What is discourage foreign assistance, cause unrest in the South, and change the focus of the war

500

Abraham Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction of the south

Ten Percent plan

500

The causation of the sharecropping system in the South (causes and effect)

What is need for workers and need for land resulting in economic dependency