Causes of the Civil War
What famous anti-slavery book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe showed the cruel reality of slavery?
Uncle Tom's Cabin
What side won the American Civil War (do not say the north or south)?
The Union
Which amendment permanently ended and outlawed slavery in the United States?
The 13the Amendment
What government agency was set up after the war to help newly freed African Americans with food, schools, and medical care?
The Freedmen's Bureau
What secret terrorist group formed in the South to attack Black people and stop them from voting?
The Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
What law allowed people living in Kansas and Nebraska to vote on whether to allow slavery?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
What was the main issue between the Northern and Southern states that led to the Civil War?
slavery
Which amendment guaranteed citizenship and equal protection under the law to anyone born in the U.S.?
The 14th amendment
What nickname was given to Northerners who moved to the South after the war to buy land or run for office?
Carpetbaggers
What fee did some Southern states force people to pay before they were allowed to vote?
Poll Tax
In this famous Supreme Court case, the court ruled that enslaved African Americans were property, not citizens.
Dred Scott decision
Who served as the President of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War?
Jefferson Davis
Which amendment gave Black men the right to vote?
The 15th Amendment
What nickname was given to Southern white people who supported Union plans for Reconstruction?
Scalawags
What difficult exam was given to Black citizens in the South to keep them from registering to vote?
What is the term for letting voters in a state or territory decide an issue (like slavery) for themselves?
Popular Sovereignty
What order issued by President Lincoln freed enslaved people in the rebelling Southern states?
Emancipation Proclamation
What word means "a change or addition made to the U.S. Constitution"?
Amendment
What system forced poor farmers to rent land and tools in exchange for a share of their crops, often trapping them in debt?
Sharecropping
What rule allowed white voters to skip literacy tests if their father or grandfather had been eligible to vote before the Civil War?
Grandfather Clause
Who was elected President in 1860, causing Southern states to secede from the United States?
Abraham Lincoln
What famous speech did President Lincoln give to dedicate a national cemetery and remind Americans to finish the work of keeping the country together?
Gettysburg Address
What word means giving a person or a group the legal right to vote?
Enfranchisement
What harsh laws were passed by Southern states right after the war to limit the freedom of African Americans?
Black Codes
What civil rights group was created in 1909 by W.E.B. Du Bois to fight for racial equality in court?
NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)