Rights | ||
#1 | Which Constitutional Amendment, ratified in December 1865, freed the slaves? | Thirteenth Amendment |
#2 | Which Constitutional Amendment granted the vote to African American men? | Fifteenth Amendment |
#3 | Which Constitutional Amendment guaranteed equality under the law for all citizens? | Fourteenth Amendment |
#4 | Which reform movement split into two groups following Reconstruction because of its failure to extend suffrage to all Americans? | Women's Rights Movement |
#5 | Which federal laws made it a crime to interfere with a citizen’s right to vote? | Enforcement Acts |
South | ||
#1 | What is the term used to indicate that African Americans and whites were required to use separate schools or were to be treated separately because of their race? | Segregation |
#2 | Which system of agriculture featured people given tools, supplies, and land to farm from a landowner but required a portion of the harvest without freedom of what to grow? | Sharecropping |
#3 | What name were Southerners who sided with Republicans during Reconstruction called? | Scalawags |
#4 | Which system of agriculture featured tenants who rented their land from a landowner, kept or sold all of their harvests, and who supplied their own tools and supplies? | Tenant Farming |
#5 | Which system of agriculture featured tenants who rented land from a landowner, gave 1/4 to 1/3 of the harvest to the landowner, and supplied most of their own tools and supplies? | Share-Tenancy |
People & Presidents | ||
#1 | Which African American leader said that African Americans should accept Jim Crow Laws and focus their efforts on improving their economic situations and reputations? | Booker T. Washington |
#2 | Which African American leader argued that African Americans should push for full and immediate equality? | W.E.B. Du Bois |
#3 | Which president was impeached for violating the 1867 Tenure of Office Act? | Andrew Johnson |
#4 | Who became president as a result of the Compromise of 1877? | Rutherford B. Hayes |
#5 | Which Union general’s “march to the sea” led to the burning of Atlanta, Georgia? | William Tecumseh Sherman |
Generals | ||
#1 | Who emerged as the commander of the Army of Northern Virginia after the Battle of Seven Days outside of Richmond and the battlefield injury of General Joseph E. Johnston? | Robert E. Lee |
#2 | After the Battle of Gettysburg, which Union general did Lincoln promote to commander of all of the Union troops because he promised to finish the job? | Ulysses S. Grant |
#3 | Who emerged as the cautious commander of the Army of the Potomac after Lincoln replaced General Irvin McDowell? | George B. McClellan |
#4 | Which Confederate General earned the nickname “Stonewall” after the first battle outside of Manassas, Virginia for standing on the battlefield “like a stone wall”? | Thomas J. Jackson |
#5 | Which Confederate general led a failed charge against Union forces at Cemetery Ridge that led to the deaths of most of his men? | George Pickett |
Battles | ||
#1 | In July of 1861, 35,000 Union troops faced off against 32,000 Confederates at the first large-scale battle of the Civil War near a creek by Manassas, Virginia at which battle? | First Bull Run |
#2 | David Farragut sailed through the Gulf of Mexico to seize which southern port in 1862? | New Orleans |
#3 | At which city, 20-miles south of Richmond, did the Union engage in a 10-month siege? | Petersburg |
#4 | At which important site near the Mississippi River did General Grant win by carrying out a siege from May 22 to July 4 1863? | Vicksburg |
#5 | At which 1862 battle in Tennessee did 25,000 Union and Confederate soldiers die? | Shiloh |
Final Question | |