Slavery
What is an abolitionist?
someone who opposed and worked towards the ending of slavery
What was the first state to secede from the union?
South Carolina
What is the 13th Amendment?
Abolished slavery
What is the name of the terror organization that was originally founded following the Civil War by former Confederate soldiers?
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
complete this phrase: "_______ acres and a ______"
40 acres and a mule
What was the name of the 1854 violence in a new territory that foreshadowed the Civil War?
Bleeding Kansas
In what year did the Civil War end?
1865
What is another word for "the right to vote"?
suffrage, franchise
What were the unjust laws that forced many African Americans back into slave labor and eventually led to Jim Crow laws?
Black Codes
Who Assassinated Abraham Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
Which abolitionist believed it was his God-given duty to use violence against slaveholders?
John Brown
In what year did the Civil War begin?
1861
What did the 15th Amendment do?
Gave African American MEN the right to vote
What practice/policy kept people separated based on their race?
segregation
Which state's literacy test did we take yesterday?
Louisiana
What Supreme Court decision of 1854 set the precedent that African Americans were not citizens?
Dred Scott Decision
Name two border states the Emancipation Proclamation did NOT apply to
Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri, West Virginia
What is the 14th Amendment?
"equal protection of the law"; granted citizenship & civil rights to all people born in US
What phrase that people used to justify segregation came from the Plessy v Ferguson Supreme Court decision?
"separate but equal"
poll taxes, grandfather clause, keeping felons from voting, voter ID laws
What was the main cash crop before and during the Civil War?
cotton
Who was the "president of the Confederacy"?
Jefferson Davis
What was the name of the general who marched through Georgia at the end of the Civil War, freeing slaves and destroying infrastructure?
General William T Sherman
Give an approximate start and end date for the Jim Crow era (answer must be within the correct decade).
1877-1960s
Who ran against Abraham Lincoln in 1864?
George McClellan