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Who was the President during the American Civil War?
Abraham Lincoln
Which U.S. Amendment ended slavery?
13th
What were the discrimination and segregation laws known as after the Civil War?
Jim Crow Laws
Where is the capital of the United States?
Washington, D.C.
What years did the American Civil War take place? I will accept the correct decade.
1861-1865 (1860's)
Who became president after Lincoln was assassinated?
Andrew Johnson
Which U.S. Amendment gave all men the right to vote, regardless of race or previous servitude?
15th
How would Southern Whites try and stop black men from voting?
Poll tax, literacy test, intimidation
Name two (2) states that were a part of the Union during the Civil War.
Maine, New York, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, California, Nevada, and Oregon.
The most infamous of the white supremacy groups to emerge from the Reconstruction Era.
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
These two men wanted African American equality, but had two different ideas on how to achieve it.
Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois
This U.S. Amendment states all people born in the United States are U.S. citizens and have the rights that come with being a citizen.
14th
What does "Segregation" mean?
The enforced separation of different racial groups in a country, community, or establishment.
Name two (2) states that were a part of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia
What is the name of the fictional character that segregation laws were named after?
Jim Crow
Who was the President of the Confederate States?
Jefferson Davis
Equal Protection under the law goes with which amendment?
14th
What was the biggest political focus of Southern Whites during Reconstruction?
Stopping the black vote.
Which side high more soldiers, a higher population? The Union or the Confederacy?
The Union (North)
What was the bloodiest (deadliest) battle of the American Civil War?
Battle of Gettysburg (51,000+)
This man was born enslaved, met with President Lincoln to discuss ending slavery, recruited African Americans to join the Union, and became a famous orator (speaker) and abolitionist.
Frederick Douglas
What are the three "Reconstruction Amendments?"
13th, 14th, and 15th
This Supreme Court Case made segregation legal under the law, citing "separate but equal."
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Was Kansas a free state or a slave state?
Free state
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
A government group setup in Southern communities to help slaves make the transition from slavery to free persons.