Early in his career this man was a member of the Whig Party
Who is Abraham Lincoln
100
What criticism might an abolitionist make of Abraham Lincoln?
What is....1) that he waited too long 2) that he said contradictory things 3) etc
100
In the Southern Declaration of the Immediate Causes of Secession, South Carolina made clear this was the primary cause of their leaving the United States.
What is slavery?
100
The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in the Confederacy (but not the border states) to help do what?
To help the Union win the Civil War.
100
This act of physical violence was a method of white Southerners keeping control over African-Americans even after the end of slavery.
What is lynching?
200
This man told us to view Abraham Lincoln not from genuine abolition ground, but by the sentiment of his countrymen, and that if we did, we would see Lincoln was "zealous and determined"
Who is Frederick Douglas?
200
What was special about the border states? (Unusual or weird)
Had slavery but stayed in the Union
200
The North and the South were also known as this during the Civil War
What is the Union and the Confederacy
200
Lincoln used bribery and coercion to pass this law, which (finally!) ended slavery in the U.S.
What is the 13th amendment?
200
Passed during the late 1800s, what effect did Jim Crow laws have?
What is mandating/forcing segregation
300
This man who was executed claimed that if his actions were done in defense of the rich instead of slaves people would have said he was a hero
Who is John Brown?
300
Abraham Lincoln was elected, and Southern fears over his election caused them to what from the Union?
What is secede?
300
This document was written as a war measure. I allowed freed people to join the U.S. military.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
300
The 14th amendment said everyone born in the U.S. was a citizen that no what could take away the rights of citizens.
What is a state?
300
During the Great Migration, African-Americans who were escaping the Jim Crow South often most often went to what two regions of the country? (Also acceptable: what two cities did many people go to?)
What is the Northeast and Midwest or Chicago and New York
400
These people believed that we should give newly freed slaves land and money to farm it.
Thaddeus Stevens was an example of one.
Who are Radical Republicans?
400
In Plessy vs. Ferguson, the Court ruled that these could be segregated as long as they were 'separate but equal.'
What are places of public accommodation?
400
This organization was started towards the end of the Civil War to help African-Americans and poor whites with education, medical care, jobs, and finding family.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
400
According to the 15th amendment, you could not be denied the right to vote based on what?
What is your race or color.
400
This economic system was almost as bad as slavey...
What is sharecropping?
500
A Southerner, this man became president in 1865 and wanted to leave the South alone after the Civil War.
Who is President Andrew Johnson?
500
Explain one example of a contrast and contradiction from Reconstruction.
Assorted answers
500
In his letter to Horace Greeley, Lincoln explains his motivation for fighting the Civil War. What was it?
What is to keep the Union together. (Or to save the Union.)
500
This ruling declared Louisiana's 'Separate Car Act' constitutional as long as the accommodations were what?
(You need to the name of the case and the phrase for describing the accommodations.)
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?
500
Because of this, Reconstruction was often called the 2nd Civil War.
Conflict between North and South, violence against African Americans