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100

This side had more economic advantages in the civil war and was therefore victorious

What is the North? 

100

The Civil War president who wrote the Emancipation Proclamation

Who is Abraham Lincoln

100

This was created as an early compromise to establish which states would be free or slave states; establishing the 36'30 line at this states southern border

The Missouri Compromise

100

This terrorist organization attempted to keep African-Americans from exercising their new rights through tactics like lynching and burning crosses

What is the KKK?

100

What was the southern economy based on?

Cotton and Agriculture

200

The 10th Amendment States; The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people

What issue would states fight over leading to a war?

What is Slavery?

200

General Lee surrendered to this man at Appomattox Court House, who later became President during Reconstruction

Who is General Ulysses S. Grant

200

This amendment was added to the Constitution, officially outlawing enslavement in the U.S.

The 13th Amendment

200
In the Compromise of 1877 that ended Reconstruction, Republicans agreed to
withdraw federal troops from the South
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
300

Widespread violence across this territory over the issue of slavery (Hint: John Brown fought here and Mr. Bennett has 9 aunts/uncles born in this state)

What is kansas?

300
Enslaved person who escaped and wrote an autobiography about his experience. The most photographed Americans of the 19th century.

Who is Frederick Douglass?

300
What battle was considered the turning point of the Civil War?
Gettysberg
300

The Freedman’s Bureau was established to:

What is provide former enslaved people with food, clothing, and education

300

These laws limited/prevented African Americans rights post–Civil War South by creating segregation in publci places

What are Jim Crow laws?

400

This event triggered the Secession of South Carolina in 1860.

Election of Lincoln

400

Led a march from Atlanta to Savannah that destroyed buildings, farmland, and homes. Also issued Field Order #15 entitling black men who fought for him 40 acres and a mule.

Who is General William T. Sherman?

400

Plessy V. Ferguson establsihed this as a legality in the U.S.

Segregation/Separate but Equal

400

The amendment which made "all persons born or naturalized in the United States" equal rights under the law

What is the 14th Amendment

400

Give TWO examples of voting rights restrictions that were implemented against African Americans

1) Poll Taxes

2) Literacy Tests

3) Grandfather Clauses

500

Along with founding the anit-slavery society, Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison created a newspaper called...

What is the Liberator?

500

This man lead the Raid on Harper's Ferry in an attempt to start a slave rebellion

John Brown

500

In response to uprisings against the war, Lincoln suspended this, saying it would help to preserve the union

Habeaus Corpus

500

were codes that were designed to give the state control over black peoples' behavior, and particularly, their labor. They placed harsh economic and social restrictions on the black people.

Black codes

500

President Andrew Johnson's plan for reconstruction focused on.

What is healing?

What is taking an oath of allegiance to the Union