Era 7 Jeopardy

People of Civil War

100

President of the Union during the Civil War

A) Jefferson Davis

B) Abraham Lincoln

C) Ulysses S. Grant

D) Robert E. Lee

Abraham Lincoln

200

General of the Confederacy during the Civil War

A) John Wilkes Booth

B) Ulysses S. Grant

C) Abraham Lincoln

D) Robert E. Lee 

Robert E. Lee

300

Assassinated Abraham Lincoln

A) John Wilkes Booth

B) Robert E. Lee

C) Ulysses S. Grant

D) Jefferson Davis

John Wilkes Booth

400

General of the Union during the Civil War

A) Ulysses S. Grant

B) Robert E. Lee

C) John Wilkes Booth

D) Abraham Lincoln

Ulysses S. Grant

500

President of the Confederacy during the Civil War

A) Abraham Lincoln

B) Jefferson Davis

C) Ulysses S. Grant

D) John Wilkes Booth

Jefferson Davis

Laws & Amendments

100

Made slavery illegal

A) 14th Amendment

B) 13th Amendment

C) 15th Amendment

D) Emancipation Proclamation

13th Amendment

200

Gave equal citizenship to all Americans

A) 13th Amendment

B) 15th Amendment

C) 14th Amendment

D) Emancipation Proclamation 

14th Amendment

300

Laws passed by southern lawmakers attempting to stop Reconstruction

A) Emancipation Proclamation

B) 13th Amendment

C) Black codes

D) 14th Amendment

Black codes

400

Lincoln proclaimed all slaves in southern states free

A) 13th Amendment

B) 14th Amendment

C) 15th Amendment

D) Emancipation Proclamation

Emancipation Proclamation

500

Gave African American males the right to vote

A) 13th Amendment

B) 14th Amendment

C) Emancipation Proclamation

D) 15th Amendment

15th Amendment

North vs South

100

South's chief cash crop that needed slave labor

A) cotton

B) rice

C) indigo

D) corn

cotton

200

had more industry, technology, and transportation during the civil war

A) north

B) south

North

300

had better generals, higher morale, but lacked transportation and technology during the civil war

A) north

B) south

south

400

1st battle of the Civil War

A) Gettysburg

B) Palmito Ranch

C) Fort Sumter

D) Appomattox Court House

Fort Sumter

500

was occupied for almost 10 years following the civil war in a period known as Reconstruction

A) north

b) south

South

Reconstruction 101

100

Organization that came from the Union to help oversee Reconstruction in the south and help newly freed African Americans

A) civil soldiers

B) Freedman's Bureau

C) FBI agents

D) northern helpers

Freedman's Bureau

200

Laws passed during the Reconstruction Era were supported in Congress by _______

Radical Republicans

Southern Democrats 

Radical Republicans

300

Reconstruction occurred following the Civil War when the south was occupied into 5 military districts

A) True

B) False

True

400

policy during Reconstruction in which former slaves worked on plantations in exchange for a share of the crops

A) sharecropping

B) abolitionism

C) integration

D) irrigation

sharecropping

500

Celebratory day that represents when Union soldiers notified Texans at Galveston Bay of the Emancipation Proclamation and end of slavery

A) confederate surrender

B) Juneteenth

C) Lincoln's inauguration

D) Lee's victory at Bull Runn

Juneteenth

Random Era 7

100

Sam Houston was in support of Texas joining the Confederacy at the start of the Civil War

A) True

B) False

False

200

While the annexation of new states led to the Mexican American War, _____ led to the U.S. Civil War

A) economic troubles

B) immigration

C) trade wars

D) secession

secession

300

The Union plan implemented to end the civil war

A) the northern strategy

B) Lincoln's plan

C) The Anaconda plan

D) Ulysses' plan

The Anaconda plan

400

The Battle of Palmito Ranch occurred in Texas after the south had surrendered to the north at Appomattox 

A) True

B) False

True

500

novel published before the Civil War that showed the horrors of slavery

A) Uncle Tom's Cabin

B) Walden

C) Gettysburg Address

D) Narrative of a Slave Life

Uncle Tom's Cabin