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When did the Civil War start?

April 12, 1861

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The president of the United States during the Civil War. He was assassinated five days after the end of the war.

Who is Abraham Lincoln

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It was the site upon which the first shots were fired by the South in 1861, which claimed a federal fort off the coast of South Carolina.
What is Fort Sumter
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What do you call the agricultural system that developed in the South after the Civil War which often left families in debt to land owners and led to many African-Americans to a sort of economic slavery?

What is Sharecropping

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The name meaning "extreme" assumed by members of a political party who demanded civil rights for freed people, and who forwarded the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the 13th-15th Amendments.
What is Radical Republicans
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When did the Civil War end?

April 9, 1865

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The general of the Rebel Confederate Army. He is considered one of the finest generals ever in US history.
Who is Robert E. Lee
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The site of the South's surrender to the Union forces in 1865.

What is Appomattox Court House

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The name of the laws passed by Southern states in 1865 and 1866 that discriminated against African Americans and limited their freedom.
What are black codes
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This amendment gave African Americans the rights of citizenship. As a result hundreds entered political office at the local, state, and federal levels during the period of Congressional Reconstruction (1866-1876).
What is the 14th Amendment
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When did the Reconstruction Era start and end?  (Years)

1865-1877

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After Lincoln's assassination, who became president? 

Who is Andrew Johnson

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Three months before Lee surrendered, Congress passed this, which prohibited slavery in the United States.

What is the 13th Amendment

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Created by former confederates to suppress the vote and restore antebellum America in the south.

What is the Ku Klux Klan

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Because the race for the 1876 presidential election was so close, what enabled Rutherford B. Hayes to take office in return for the end of Reconstruction?

What is the Compromise of 1877 

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What major event happened after the Battle of Antietam?

Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation                                                   

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Who was the general Lincoln fired after the Battle of Antietam because he was frustrated with his errors and inability to destroy Lee's army.

Who is George McClellan

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Lincoln used the dedication ceremony for this battlefield cemetery to honor the fallen Union soldiers and redefine the purpose of the war, and indeed of the United States government, in his historic address.

What is Gettysburg

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Who did Congress decide to impeach when he did not follow the Radical Reconstruction plan and when he broke the Tenure of Office Act?

President Andrew Johnson

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This amendment gave African Americans the right to vote. Southern governments took away the franchise of blacks under the Jim Crow laws, which enacted obstacles to voting such as poll taxes and literacy tests.
What is the 15th Amendment
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What month and year did Lincoln give his second inaugural address to the nation, urging the nation to "bind up its wounds" and move to peace?

March of 1865

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Known as "The Angel of the Battlefield" for her work caring for wounded soldiers during the Civil War, who founded the American Red Cross in 1881?  

Clara Barton

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After reaching Savanna, Georgia, Gen. William T. Sherman sent Lincoln a note that said he destroyed much of the south east, thus helping to bring the war to an end.  What is this event famous called?

Sherman's March to the Sea

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Originally used to describe a person, typically from the North, who moved to the South after the War seeking to take advantage of the unstable political and economic situation for personal gain.  

Hint: What would they travel with?

Carpetbagger

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The president who pulled Northern troops out of the South in 1876, signaling the official end of Reconstruction and the beginning of the Jim Crow era in the South.

Who is Rutherford B. Hayes