The Civil War
This Union general became a national hero for winning many victories in the western theater before defeating the most famous Confederate general in Virginia to end the war, and also became a U.S. President once the war was over.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
What is the 14th amendment?
The name for the law that ordered all Americans to help return escaped slaves to their masters.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This was where the first major discovery of gold in the western U.S. that caused many Americans to rush there dreaming of striking it rich.
Where is California?
This amendment granted and protected voting rights for black men.
What is the 15th amendment?
The main cause of the Civil War.
What is slavery and if states had the rights to legally have slavery?
During Reconstruction, this group controlled Congress and wanted to use that position to punish the South and protect African Americans
Who were the Radical Republicans?
The goal of the abolitionist movement.
What was to end slavery in the United States?
Westward expansion led to this, frequently with the United States Army and Native American Chiefs and communities.
What was armed conflict/warfare, treaties made, then broken, and destruction of Native American communities and traditional ways of living.
The key reason why Reconstruction ended in 1877.
What was the federal government removed troops from the South, and therefor black people no longer were protected to exercise their rights?
The name for General Sherman’s famous march through Georgia where Union troops destroyed anything that could help the Confederacy fight while feeding themselves by taking food from the local population.
What is the "March to the Sea"?
The name for the racist terrorist organization that was formed by ex-Confederates to preserve their former way of life by using violence and intimidation
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This amendment ended slavery throughout the United States.
What is the 13th amendment?
The Transcontinental Railroad was constructed by new immigrants from these places, as well as these recently freed people. (3)
Who were Chinese and Irish immigrants, and African American newly freed people?
During Reconstruction, these were built for newly freed African Americans to gain literacy. Organizations like the KKK would burn them down.
What are schools?
This southern state was the first to secede from the Union.
What was South Carolina?
The term for killing people, usually hanging them from trees after mutilating them (usually black, Latino or those who tried to help them who might be white) for trying to vote, or if they were accused of a crime against a white person.
What is lynching?
John Brown became famous during the buildup towards the Civil War for this. He was executed.
What was being an abolitionist whose failed raid/slave uprising at Harper’s Ferry terrified the South?
The name given by many Indigenous Americans to the multiple treaties that were made and broken with them over the course of American history.
What is bad paper?
Another name for the Black Codes and the era of second class citizenship that black people lived in after the Civil War, especially in the south but unofficially in the north and west too.
What is Jim Crow?
Prior to 1862, Lincoln’s main goal in the Civil War was to do this.
What was to preserve the Union?
The main purpose of the Freedmen’s Bureau.
What was to assist former slaves and poor whites in the South.
The Emancipation Proclamation freed these people.
Who were slaves in the Confederate South?
These were the Christian polygamist group that were kicked out of New York state and migrated to Utah, where they too would conflict with Native Americans over land and hunting rights. The US army would back them.
Who were the Mormons?
Black men, during Reconstruction participated at these three levels of political office.
What were the local, state and federal levels of government?
President of the Union during the Civil War, assassinated five days after it was over.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
These were used to brag about lynchings and to warn and scare African Americans who tried to. They were mailed....
What were postcards?
She was the author of the extremely influential anti-slavery novel, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”.
Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe?
Due to westward expansion, this species was slaughtered almost to extinction by white settlers and travelers on the Transcontinental Railroad, completely disrupting western Native American cultures of whom it centered.
What were the buffalo?
When Reconstruction ended and federal troops left the south, this happened to black voter registration and participation because it was now largely unsafe.
What was it decreased significantly?