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Civil War Causes and Events
Civil War People
Civil War Battles/ Events
Presidential Reconstruction
Congressional Reconstruction
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The holding in bondage of another human being. The institution existed both in the North and South prior to the Civil War but had been abolished in all Northern state constitutions by the outbreak of war.
What is slavery
100
The president of the United States during the Civil War. He was assassinated five days after the end of the war.
Who is Abraham Lincoln
100
It was the site upon which the first shots were fired by the South in 1861, which claimed a federal fort off the coast of South Carolina.
What is Fort Sumter
100
The president who succeeded Lincoln and who was a slave owner.
Who is Andrew Johnson
100
The name meaning "extreme" assumed by members of a political party who demanded civil rights for freed people, and who forwarded the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the 13th-15th Amendments.
What is Radical Republicans
200
The term for the South leaving the Union, which first South Carolina and then other states of the Confederacy did following Lincoln's election in 1860.
What is secession
200
The general of the Rebel Confederate Army. He is considered one of the finest generals ever in US history.
Who is Robert E. Lee
200

What was the first battle during the Civil War?

What is the Battle of Bull Run

200
The name of the laws passed by Southern states in 1865 and 1866 that discriminated against African Americans and limited their freedom.
What are black codes
200
This amendment gave African Americans the rights of citizenship. As a result hundreds entered political office at the local, state, and federal levels during the period of Congressional Reconstruction (1866-1876).
What is the 14th Amendment
300

The name of people who were against slavery and created ways to see it end. Frederick Douglas is an example of these people.

What is an abolitionist 

300

After Lincoln's assassination, who became president? 

Who is Andrew Johnson

300
Lincoln delivered this executive order after the Battle of Antietam, a Union victory in Maryland in 1862. Though it was only partial, it turned the Union's war aim to freeing the slaves.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation
300
The terrorist organization that used fear, intimidation, and terror against non-white groups in the American South after the Civil War.
What is the Ku Klux Klan or KKK
300
This term means separation of races, and it came to apply to public and private life in both the American north and south after Reconstruction officially ended in 1876.
What is segregation
400

What year did the Civil War start and when did it end?

What is 1861-1865

400
The abolitionist who led an unsuccessful raid on the federal armory at Harpers Ferry that ended with his capture. He was sentenced to death by hanging.
Who is John Brown
400
Lincoln used the dedication ceremony for this battlefield cemetery to honor the fallen Union soldiers and redefine the purpose of the war, and indeed of the United States government, in his historic address.
What is Gettysburg
400
The name of the organization that sent Northerners to the South to help provide an education, food, clothing, and to help African Americans sign contracts with planters.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau
400
This amendment gave African Americans the right to vote. Southern governments took away the franchise of blacks under the Jim Crow laws, which enacted obstacles to voting such as poll taxes and literacy tests.
What is the 15th Amendment
500

Who was the leader of the Southern states when they seceded 

Who is Jefferson Davis

500

The Northern Union general who led an army march through the South in the final year of the war, laying waste (burned down) to everything in its wake. 

Who is William T. Sherman

500
The site of the South's surrender to the Union forces in 1865.
What is Appomattox Court House
500

What did Congress decide to do to President Johnson when he did not follow the Reconstruction plan?

What is impeach him

500
The president who pulled Northern troops out of the South in 1876, signaling the official end of Reconstruction and the beginning of the Jim Crow era in the South.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes