House Divided/Lincoln
Elected president in 1860 by winning in the North and having no votes in the South.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The first African American military regiment who fought for the Union.
What is the Massachusetts 54th Regiment?
The attack on this fort started the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
Lincoln's lenient plan for the Union to be reunited.
What is the Ten Percent Plan?
This voting law restricted African Americans and poor white Southerners.
What is a poll tax?
Finish the phrase "a House divided against itself...."
What is cannot stand?
The vital role that women played during the war which was generally considered a man's job before the war.
What is a nurse?
A Union victory led by Ulysses S. Grant that led to major railways being cutoff but led to heavy losses. Also known as Pittsburg Landing.
What is the Battle of Shiloh?
What is the Wade-Davis Bill?
Three hate groups that emerged at the end of Reconstruction that participated in violence, riots, and massacres throughout Louisiana.
Who were the Ku Klux Klan, the White League, and the Red Shirts.
Due to Lincoln winning the presidency, this state was the first to secede from the Union.
What is South Carolina?
Those killed or wounded in war were called ________.
What are casualties?
The capture of 3 cities (New Orleans, Vicksburg, and Port Hudson) along this river was a major blow, crucially weakening the Confederacy.
What is the Mississippi River?
President Johnson's plan for reconstruction excluded wealthy Southern landowners from voting unless personally pardoned and gave them back their property lost during the war was known as
What is Presidential Reconstruction?
The two Louisiana cities who have a deadly history with violence against African Americans.
What are Colfax and Opelousas?
Lincoln made his famous speech here which began with "Four score and seven years ago..." to remember the fallen soldiers of this battle.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
Issued on January 1, 1863, it freed the slaves in the confederate states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Bloodiest single day battle of the Civil War
What is the Battle of Antietam?
This plan was harsher on the South and created the 13, 14, and 15th Amendments.
What is Congressional Reconstruction?
This was written allowing Rutherford B Hayes to become president and for the removal of all federal troops in the South.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
Actor, secret agent, and racist who blamed Lincoln for the South's defeat then assassinated the president at Ford's Theater on April 14, 1865.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and, Delaware were slave states that remained in the Union and were known as _________.
What were the Border States?
The war ended here after Lee's army could no longer hold off the Union troops after Richmond (Capital of the Confederacy) fell.
What is Appomattox Court House?
African Americans were now allowed to participate in politics and helped write new state constitutions. The first African American governor in the U.S. was Louisiana's governor who served for 34 days. His name is__________
Who is P.B.S. Pinchback?
Segregation laws that were named after a minstrel show's white character in black face
What are Jim Crow laws?