Civil War
What year did the Civil War start?
What is 1861
What is the Reconstruction?
Who was one of the most famous conductors of the Underground Railroad?
Who was Harriet Tubman
What was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War?
What is The Battle of Gettysburg
Who were the Carpetbaggers?
What is income tax?
What is a tax that takes a specified percentage of an individual's income.
When did the Construction end?
What is 1877
Who was the President of the Union during the Civil War?
Who is Abraham Lincoln
What battle was on an island in Charleston harbor?
What is The Battle of Fort Sumter
What are Scalawags?
They were white Southerners who joined the Republican Party.
What year did the Civil War end?
What is 1865
What did the 14th Amendment do?
Prevented states from denying rights and privileges to any U.S. citizens.
Who was the president of the Confederacy?
What was the first battle of the Civil War?
The Battle of Bull Run
What is sharecropping?
When landowners divided their land and assigned each head of household a few acres, along with seeds and tools.
What is conscription?
Conscription is a draft that forced men to serve in the army
What did the 15th amendment do?
It states that nobody can be kept from voting because of race,color, or previous condition of servitude.
Who was the head general of the Union. (Became president after the Civil War)
Ulysses S. Grant
What was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history?
What is The Battle of Antietam
Who was Hiram Revels?
The first ever African-American senator.
What was an order issued by Lincoln to free slaves?
What is the Emancipation Proclamation
Who were the KKK?
A Southern vigilante group that wanted to strip people of color of their rights and to destroy the Republican Party.
Who wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
What battle fought to take the last 2 Confederate strongholds?
What is The Battle of Vicksburg
What is popular sovereignty?