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The agency formed by the Federal government to help former slaves
What is The Freedman's Bureau?
The location of Abraham Lincoln's assassination
What is Ford's Theater?
The 2-word term we give to the project that ran between Omaha, NE and Sacramento, CA and was built by 2 companies, the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
The number of states in the Confederacy
What is 11?
The name of the location and the date of General Lee's surrender to General Grant
What is Appomattox Court House, VA and April 1865?
State laws that restricted the rights of blacks were called this
What is Black Codes?
The president who faced an impeachment trial that failed to convict him by 1 vote
Who is Andrew Johnson?
The term given to those who received a portion of the crop for their work on farms
What are sharecroppers?
Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter after President Lincoln tried to do what
What is resupply the Fort?
The state where General William T. Sherman captured and burned the capital and then marched to the sea, destroying everything in his wake
What is GA?
The act of Congress that enabled people to receive free land if they lived on it or farmed it for 5 years
What is the Homestead Act?
The president whose administration was marked by several major scandals
Who is Ulysses S Grant?
The term for the idea that settlers in a territory should decide for themselves whether or not to admit slavery
What is popular sovereignty?
The Confederate VP
Who is Alexander Hamilton Stephens?
This general chose to fight for the Confederacy because he could not fight against his home state of VA
Who is Robert E. Lee?
The Constitutional Amendment, passed after the Civil War, which defined citizenship and guaranteed the legal rights of citizens
What is the 14th amendment?
The newly-enfranchised black vote gave this candidate the presidency
Who is Ulysses S Grant?
The first battle of the Civil War in VA
What is Bull Run (Manassas Junction)?
The Confederate President
Who is Jefferson Davis?
Ineffective General George McLellan ran as a Democrat against Abraham Lincoln in this year
What is 1864?
During the Civil War the U.S. Treasury issued $432 million in paper money, also called this, to increase the supply of available cash beyond the government's gold reserve
What are Greenbacks?
The presidential election of 1876 was marked by uncertainties and irregularities. In negotiations between Democratic and Republican leaders to settle the question, the Democrats agreed to support this person's election if he promised to remove the remaining Federal troops from the South and to name a southerner as Postmaster General.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
The state in which the Battle of Gettysburg took place
What is Pennsylvania?
The city in Alabama where the Confederate government formed
What is Montgomery?
The four places where General Ulysses S Grant was victorious
What is Ft. Henry, Ft. Donelson, Shiloh, and Vicksburg?