Reconstruction

Assassination

100

The assignation of this man changed reconstruction for ever?

Who is Abraham Lincoln?

200

This man shot and killed Abraham Lincoln?

Who is John Wilkes Booth 

300

This was the theater where Abraham Lincoln was killed?

What is Fords Theater?

400

This was the day that Abraham Lincoln was shot?

When is April 14th 1865?

500

John Wilkes Booth also wanted to attack and kill these three other people besides Abraham Lincoln?

Who are William Seward, Ulysses S Grant, and Andrew Johnson? 

Reconstruction

100

The period of time after the civil war when the south needed to become part of the union again?

What is reconstruction?

200

The people who needed to be protected from the recently defeated south after the civil war? 

Who are recently freed slaves? 

300

This department was charged with helping recently freed slaves during reconstruction? 

What is the Freemans Bureau? 

400

This decided the south into five parts and sent troops down to the south to protect recently freed slaves?

What is military reconstruction? 

500

This depression year led to many northerns want to give up on protection of the freed slaves?

What is 1873? 

Amendments

100

These laws created racial discrimination in the south after the civil war?

What are black codes? 

200

This amendment official ended slavery in the United States?

What is the 13th amendment? 

300

This amendment made recently freed slaves citizens in America?

What is the 14th amendment? 

400

This amendment recently made it legal for recently freed slaves to vote in United States Elections?

What is the 15th Amendment?

500

The amount to black who made it into state legislatures and governments during reconstruction?

What is 2,000 people? 

Voting Rights

100

This group terrorized recently freed slaves to keep them from voting?

Who is the Klu Klux Klan? 

200

This law was used to keep black from voting and required that recently freed slaves would have to pay to vote?

What is a poll tax?

300

This law was used to keep blacks from voting and required recently freed slaves to pass reading and writing tests?

What is a literacy test?

400

This law required for people to vote only if their grandfathers were able to vote?

What is the Grandfather Clause? 

500

This riot took all of the black representatives from the government in North Carolina? 

What is the Wilmington Massacre?

Misc.

100

This was the original plan of Abraham Lincoln to have people rejoin the United States?

What is the 10% plan?

200

These people were northerns who worked in the south and made money off of reconstruction? 

What are carpetbaggers?

300

This was a system of for recently freed slaves to be given work but really slaves just ended up on the same plantations they had worked on before?

What is sharecropping?

400

This was a term for southerns who agreed with northerners and reconstruction? 

What are scalawags? 

500

This holiday was created when all slaves were finally freed in America?

What is Juneteenth?