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Why were southerners opposed to the abolition of slavery?
It would ruin their economy
100
Who wrote the Emancipation Proclamation
Abraham Lincoln
100

What event in New York City in when poor Irish immigrant rebelled causing 1.5 million in damages and killing 200 people?

What are the Draft Riots of 1863

100

In the Compromise of 1877 that ended Reconstruction, Republicans agreed to

What is Hayes (Republican) becomes president and withdraw federal troops from the South

100
What was the southern economy based on?
Cotton and Agriculture
200
What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act declare?
Territories could use popular sovereignty to decide if they would enter the Union as a slave state
200
Who did General Lee surrender to at Appomattox Court House?
General Ulysses S. Grant
200

What is the "Other" Civil War?

The battle between the rich and the poor

200
The amendment which states that no one can be kept from voting because of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude" is the
15th
200
which slaves were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation?
None (freed only slaves in the Confederacy)
300
What political party did the north follow?
Republicans
300

Who was the President of the Confederacy?

Jefferson Davis

300

What are characteristics of urban cities during this time?

What is crowded, disease ridden, high crime rate, and prone to fires.

300

This is a terrorist organization made by veteran confederate soldiers that inflicted violence on African Americans.

What is the Ku Klux Klan

300
What is Conscription?
Forcing people to serve in the military during a time of national crisis
400

This event triggered the Secession Crisis that directly caused the war

Election of Lincoln in 1860

400

Who led a march from Atlanta to Savannah that destroyed buildings, farmland, and homes?

General William T. Sherman

400

What established a policy of encouraging immigration by supporting companies who would provide passage to their workers in exchange for labor?

What is Contract Labor Law
400
The amendment which made "all persons born or naturalized in the United States" citizens of the country was the
14th
400
What happened to the southern economy during the war?
High Inflation drove up prices
500
What is Bloody Kansas?
Widespread violence across the territory over slavery
500

Who fought for their freedom from slavery and took their case all the way to the supreme court but eventually lost?

Dred Scott

500

What is a organized association of workers formed to protect and further their rights and interests 

What is Labor Union

500

Were non-violent ways that southern white democrats tried to stop black people from voting

Literacy Tests and Poll Tax

500
What was the twelve-year period following the U.S. Civil War in which the South's social, economic, and political systems had to be rebuilt?
Reconstruction