What amendment abolished slavery throughout the United States?
100
What is "to do away with"?
What does "abolition" mean?
100
What is Fort Sumter?
Which event officially signaled the start of the Civil War?
100
What is slavery?
Which of the following was a long term cause of the Civil War? Slavery Secession Lincoln's Election
200
What is States' Rights?
What is the belief of people that states should have certain rights, specifically the right to ignore any federal law with which the people of the state do not agree?
200
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
What law (or act) required a runaway slave to be returned to his or her owner by anyone coming in contact with a slave that has fled to freedom?
200
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
Which battle is considered the turning point of the war?
200
What is the Sumner-Brooks Incident?
What is the event when a representative from the South attacked a representative from the North after an anti-slavery speech?
200
What is ... Southerners were angry that Lincoln might end slavery since he ran as an anti-slavery Republican.
Why was the election of Abraham Lincoln as President in 1860 considered a short term cause of the Civil War?
300
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
What document “freed” slaves in land not under Union control during the Civil War?
300
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
What law established citizenship for black males?
300
What is sharecropping?
There were two economic systems in the South after the Civil War. One was tenant farming. What was the other?
300
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
Where did General Lee surrender to General Grant, signaling the end of the Civil War?
300
What is South Carolina?
Which state was the first to write a Declaration of Secession and secede from the Union?
400
What is "it provided schools to educate blacks and helped blacks find work?"
What economic and social help did the Freedmen’s Bureau provide blacks in the South?
400
What is "separate restrooms for Blacks and Whites"?
Which of the following was an example of Jim Crow laws?
Separate restrooms for Blacks and Whites
Poll Taxes
Literacy Tests
400
What is the Grandfather Clause?
What rule said that blacks could only vote if their grandfather was a free black and not a slave?
400
What is he was assassinated by Confederate supporter John Wilkes Booth.
Why was President Abraham Lincoln not able to carry out his plan for Reconstruction?
400
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
What book revealed the awful conditions in which slaves had to live and pushed the North and South further apart in their views about slavery?
500
What is sectionalism?
What is an extreme loyalty to a particular region of a nation and that region’s interests and way of doing things?
500
Who is YOUR TEACHER???
Who is your favorite history teacher???
500
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Who was president of the United States during the Civil War?
500
What is the 15th Amendment?
Which amendment gave African American males the right to vote?