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100

In which speech did President Lincoln state that the Civil War was necessary to preserve the Union and that America was one nation, not a collection of individual states?  

What is the Gettysburg Address

100

Amendment that made slavery illegal

What is the 13th amendment?

100

Name one advantage that the South had during the war

More experienced soldiers

Better generals

100

Ownership of human beings was the primary cause of the Civil War.

What was Slavery/State Rights?

100

The act of leaving the Union.

What is secession?

100

Which sport uses a net, a racket, and a birdie?

Badminton

100

In Greek mythology, who was the god of the sea?

Poseidon

200

An individual who worked to end the institution of slavery.

Abolitionist 

200

Amendment that allowed all MALE U.S. citizens the right to vote

What is the 15th amendment?

200

Why were slaves not allowed to ask for court cases?

because they were not citizens, they were property

200

Lincoln's plan to readmit the former Confederate states to the Union was known as this.(how many had to take an oath?)

What was the Ten Percent Plan?

200

These amendments were put in place to protect African American rights

What was the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments

200

What type of race is the Tour de France?

Bike Race

200

What is the name of the man who created Kentucky Fried Chicken?

Colonel Sanders

300

The group in the U.S. Congress who imposed more harsh conditions for the South during Reconstruction

Daily Double

Who are Radical Republicans?

300

Gave full citizenship to all people born in the United States, giving equal protection of the laws

What is the 14th amendment?

300

It is where General Lee surrendered to General Grant, ending the Civil War.

Appomattox Court house

300

This declared slaves in rebellion states to be freed in an effort to deprive the Confederacy of its workforce

What is the Emancipation Proclamation?

300

The idea that people should have the right to decided whether to be a slave or a free state.

What is Popular sovereignty?

300

How many numbers are on a dartboard?

20

300

What material is Captain America's shield made of? Titanium, Vibranium, Steel, or Teflon

Vibranium

400

He was a formerly enslaved who became prominent abolitionist, author and public speaker

Who is Frederick Douglass?

400

This act, passed by the Radical Republicans in 1867, divided the former Confederacy into 5 military districts.

What was the Reconstruction act of 1867.

400

The Freedmen’s Bureau succeeded in

providing clothing, medical care, food, and education to many freed people.

400

Which one is NOT one of the 3 points of the Reconstruction Act of 1867?

Write a new state constitution 

Ratify the 14th amendment

Give Freedmen jobs

Allow African Americans to vote

Give Freedmen jobs

400

An era in which white supremacists took power across of the South, segregation became the norm, and Southern states found ways to strip free Black citizens of their new civil rights.

What was Jim Crow (Jim Crow Laws)?

400

In American football, how many points is a field goal worth?

3

400

Who was the King of England during the American Revolutionary War?

King George III


500

The general of the Union Army during the Civil War? 

Who is Ulysses s Grant

500

Stated that 50% of voters in Southern states must take the oath of allegiance to the United States.

What is the Wade-Davis Bill

500

Former Confederate soldiers who terrorized Black people across the South.

What is the Ku Klux Klan?

500

This act allowed the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide the issue of slavery using popular sovereignty.

The Kansas-Nebraska Act

500

The government of 11 Southern states that seceded from the Union

Confederacy

500

What boxer is known as "The Greatest?"

Muhammad Ali

500

What vegetable takes its name from Capital of Belgium? 

Brussel Sprouts  

600

This book, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, was a powerful statement on the impact of slavery.

What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?

600

What did the Supreme Court rule in Plessy v Ferguson?

Segregation is legal as the separate facilities are equal

600

This was the section of the Constitution that permitted slavery.

What is Three-Fifths Compromise?

600

This measure decreed all slaves in those areas still in rebellion against the Union “shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free”

What is the Emancipation Proclamation?

600

To free from restraint, control, or the power of another

Emancipation

600

What’s the diameter of a basketball hoop in inches?

18 inches

600

What fish is used to make calamari?

Squid