Civil War
This was the central cause of the American Civil War
Slavery
True or False: The South won the war and slavery was abolished.
False: The North won the war and slavery was abolished.
These three Amendments are known as the Reconstruction Amendments
13th, 14th, 15th
The separation of black people and white people was called this
Segregation
Tobey Maguire
Andrew Garfield
Tom Holland
These were the names of the North and the South during the war
Union and Confederacy
Name 5 states that were part of the south during the war
Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, Virginia
This group helped African Americans get on their feet once they were no longer enslaved
Freedmen's Bureau
This was a hate group that formed during Reconstruction that inflicted terror on African Americans
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
Name five Atlanta-based rappers.
OutKast, Future, T.I. , Ludacris, 21 Savage, Latto, Young Thug, Jeezy, Playboi Carti, Childish Gambino, Lil Yachty, 2 Chainz, Migos.
This was the most important agricultural product during the civil war
This Civil War Battle that convinced the remaining Southern States to secede.
What is the Battle of Fort Sumter?
Provide 2 examples of a Black Codes
Obey curfew, couldn't rent or own land, arrested for no job, couldn't serve on juries, could only work as servants or farmers for white families, couldn't testify in court
What did the 13th Amendment State?
That slavery was abolished
The Philadelphia Phillies opened the regular season yesterday against the Washington Nationals.
From 1969-2004, the Washington Nationals played in what Canadian city and were know as the...?
Montreal Expos.
Name three advantages the North had during the war
These were laws passed during Reconstruction to limit the freedoms of African Americans.
Black Codes which were a precursor for Jim Crow Laws
What did the 15th Amendment state?
Suffrage rights for Black males
This law canceled the Missouri Compromise and made the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, allowed the states to vote on whether slavery was legal or not. It also produced a violent uprising known as “Bleeding Kansas,” as proslavery and antislavery activists flooded into the territories to sway the vote.
What is the Kansas Nebraska Act?
What is Hispaniola?
Who was leader of the Confederate Army?
General Robert E. Lee
Who assassinated President Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
This man became President after Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
Supreme Court ruling that declared African Americans were not citizens of the United States.
Dred Scott v. Sandford (1858)
Mr. Blackman is a graduate of St. John's University.
The St. John's Red Storm men's basketball team is coached by this basketball hall of famer who is mentioned in the opening verse of Drake's "Sandra's Rose"?
Who is Rick Pitino?