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Speeches and Amendments
Famous People
Reconstruction
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100
Where the first shots of the war fired.
What is Fort Sumter?
100
The amendment that freed all slaves in the U.S.
What is the 13th Amendment?
100
The first president to be assassinated
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
100
When freed slaves farmed on someone else's land in exchange for some of their crop.
What is sharecropping?
100
The political faction that wanted to punish the South.
Who were the radical republicans?
200
Where Lee Surrendered to Grant.
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
200
The amendment that gave former slaves the right to vote
What is the 15th Amendment?
200
The man who killed Abraham Lincoln
Who was John Wilkes Booth?
200
Northerners who came to the south to help with Reconstruction.
What were carpetbaggers?
200
The percent of voters that Lincoln required to readmit states to the Union.
What is 10%?
300
The turning point of the war.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
300
The amendment that gave citizenship to former slaves.
What is the 14th Amendment?
300
The man who succeeded Lincoln as president.
Who was Andrew Johnson?
300
Laws that restricted the rights of freed slaves.
What were black codes?
300
The compromise that ended Reconstruction.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
400
The largest battle of the war in terms of participants.
What is the battle of Gettysburg?
400
The executive order given by Lincoln freeing the slaves.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
400
The Congressmen who wanted 50% of southern citizens to swear "iron-clad allegiance".
Who were Wade and Davis?
400
The first major federally funded relief agency in the U.S.
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
400
The state that the dispute over the Hayes vs. Tilden presidential election occurred in.
What is Florida?
500
The battle that led to northern control of the Mississippi River.
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
500
The speech given by Lincoln beginning with the phrase "four score and seven years ago..."
What is the Gettysburg Address?
500
The Democratic candidate in the 1868 presidential election.
Who was Horatio Seymour?
500
The term for not working.
What is vagrancy?
500
The number of votes by Johnson survived impeachment
What is 1?