Amendments
Which amendment both abolishes slavery and involuntary servitude?
14th Amendment
13th Amendment
15th Amendment
What is the 13th Amendment
Which battle was the first to break out and resulted to a Confederate victory?
First Battle of Bull Run
Battle of Gettysburg
Battle of Fort Sumter
Battle of Five Forks
What is the Battle of Fort Sumter?
What constant issue started the Civil War?
What is slavery?
Who won the Civil War?
What is the Union?
Which organization is primarily responsible for promoting the Lost Cause to students?
Abolitionists
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Grand Army of the Republic
United Sons of the Confederacy
What are the United Daughters of the Confederacy?
The 15th Amendment was adopted during the Reconstruciton Era to grant African Americans what?
What is the right to vote?
Which battle was titled the bloodiest one-day battles in American military history and was directly before Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation?
Battle of Gettysburg
Battle of Antietam
Battle of the Wilderness
Battle of Shiloh
What is the Battle of Antietam? (22,000 Casualties!)
True or False: Slaves had some rights from the Bill of Rights before the Civil War. (First 10 Amendments)
False (They had no rights!)
How does President Andrew Johnson want to treat the South in comparison to the Radical Republicans?
President Johnson did not want to be strict with the South, while the Radical Republicans wanted to further punish the South.
Who delivered the "Cornerstone Speech," which was famous for asserting that the Confederacy's foundations were based on white supremacy and the institution of slavery?
Abraham Lincoln
Alexander H. Stephens
Alexander Hamlington
John Doe
Who is Alexander H. Stephens?
True or False: The 14th Amendment prohibits federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
False: The 14th Amendment grants citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the U.S., granting equal protections of the law and due process of law.
What battle was the turning point of the Civil War?
The Battle of Antietam
The Battle of Gettysburg
The Battle of Shiloh
The Battle of Vicksburg
What is the Battle of Gettysburg? (Union turning point)
What was Abraham Lincolns 270 word speech dedicated to honoring the fallen in the Soldiers’ National Cemetery in Pennsylvania?
The Inaugural Address
The Gettysburg Address
The Farewell Address
The "Day of Infamy" Address
What is the Gettysburg Address?
Why were Union soldiers stationed in the South after the Civil War?
What is to prevent further uprisings, as well as to enforce reconstruction policies. (Radical Republican's plan!)
True or False: The "Lost Cause" does not have an influence as of today.
False (Still has an influence in southern states and their education in terms of teaching hitsory of the Civil War.)
Which Amendment was foreshadowed by the Emancipation Proclamation from Abraham Lincoln?
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
What is the 13th Amendment?
Which river did the Union take control of during the Siege of Vicksburg?
The Missouri River
The Mississippi River
The Rio Grande
The Red River
What is the Mississippi River? (Vicksburg is on the Mississippi River and had a major influence in the war for transportation and trade)
What was the main motive of the South in claiming more land, besides wanting to expand the influence of slavery?
What is more farming land?
What is the term describing the transformative era after the Civil War dedicated to bringing the South back into the Union?
What is Reconstruction?
Define the "Lost Cause."
What is an ideology by white southerners to romanticize the Confederacy, justify secession, and downplay the role of slavery through stating that the was fought for "states' rights."
Define due process.
What is fair treatment by the government?
Which town did the Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrender to Union General Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865?
Richmond, Virginia
Appomattox, Virginia
Atlanta, Georgia
Albany, New York
What is Appomattox, Virginia? (Fighting did not immediately stop everywhere else!)
List possible causes of the Civil War (Team with the most correct ones win the points!)
John Brown's Raid, Compromise of 1820, Discovery of Gold in California, Kansas/Nebraska Act, Louisiana Purchase, Nat Turner's Rebellion, Railroads, Steel Plow, Mexican-American War, Dred Scott vs. Sanford, Steamboat, Bleeding Kansas, Cotton Gin
What exactly ended Reconstruction in 1877?
What is the Compromise of 1877? (Withdrawn troops from the South in exchange for having Hays as the new president.)
Who coined the term "Lost Cause"?
Edward Alfred Pollard
Jubal Early
Frederick Douglass
Robert E. Lee
Who is Edward Alfred Pollard?