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Convinced Abraham Lincoln to emancipate the slaves.

Who is Frederick Douglass? 

100

War between the North and South.

What is the Civil War?

100
This amendment prohibited slavery, and involuntary servitude
What is the 13th amendment
100

These laws limited the rights of freed African Americans in the South.

What are Black Codes?

100

The first government of the United States.

What is the Articles of Confederation?

200
assassinated President Abraham Lincoln
Who is John Wilkes Booth
200
This was the place where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
What is the Ford's Theater?
200
This amendment gave all citizens the right to vote regardless of race, religion, etc.
What is the 15th amendment
200

After his election in 1877, Northern troops left the South and Reconstruction officially ended.

Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?

200

This person attained the Louisiana Purchase from France during his presidency.

Who is Thomas Jefferson?

300
founded the Klu Klux Klan in 1865
Who is confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest
300
This group was established in Pulaski, Tennessee on December 24, 1865.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
300

Laws that legally separated or segregated blacks and whites. These laws created separate facilities such as restrooms, schools, hospitals, water fountains, etc. for each race.

What are "Jim Crow" Laws?

300

Named after the type of suitcase that they carried, these Northerners came to the South during Reconstruction for several reasons. Some came to help the South rebuild after the Civil War and some came to take advantage of a bad situation and tried to get rich quick or gain power or influence for themselves.

What are carpetbaggers?

300

The Continental army nearly starved to death here.

What is Valley Forge?

400

This person surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court House.

Who is Robert E. Lee?

400

This is the name of the holiday that the last slaves in Texas discovered they were free.

What is Juneteenth?

400
This amendment gave citizenship to freed slaves.
What is the 14th amendment
400

The separation of people based on their race.

What is segregation?

400

The start of the Civil War occurred here.

What is Fort Sumter?

500
the vice president and successor of Abraham Lincoln
Who is Andrew Johnson
500
The place where General Robert E. Lee surrendered, thus ending the Civil War
What is Appomattox Court House?
500
President Lincoln issues a Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction
What is the 10 Percent Plan
500
These people won enough seats in Congress to override any of President Johnson's vetoes. As a result, Congress impeached President Johnson.
What are "Radical" Republicans
500
The name of this general's march from Atlanta to Savannah during the Civil War.
What is Sherman's March to Sea