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What was the name for laws passed in the South that aimed to limit African American rights?

After which battle did Lincoln initially announce his intention to free the slaves in areas that were still in rebellion after January 1, 1863?

Why was Lincoln's Re-Election a turning point in the Civil War?

Where did the majority of African Americans live after the Civil War?

Which rule allowed poor and uneducated Southern whites to vote while still preventing African Americans from voting under discriminatory tactics in the South?

Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln?

Which laws in the South sought to keep African Americans and whites segregated?

Which Reconstruction Plan called for a majority of a state’s prewar voters to swear a loyalty oath before Reconstruction could begin and called for African American equality?

Which Supreme Court precedent undermined Reconstruction by ruling that the right to ride trains and use public facilities was the duty of a state to regulate and not Congress?

Where in Pennsylvania did the Union and Confederates engage in a 3-day battle in 1863?

Which fraternal organization formed to subjugate and intimidate freedmen?

Which group in Congress pushed for harsher Reconstruction terms for the South?

Where was President Lincoln on April 14, 1865 when an assassin shot him in the head?

Whose Reconstruction Plan was known as the “Ten Percent Plan”?

Which of the co-conspirators of John Wilkes Booth escaped by fleeing the country and was eventually caught in Egypt?

Which tactic to prevent African Americans from voting required the payment of money in order to vote?

For the first time in history, how did journalists like Matthew Brady bring battlefield images of the Civil War to the public?

What group of Southerners hoped to unite Southern whites and regain Southern power?

Which song, allegedly written by Daniel Decatur Emmett of Ohio became the unofficial anthem of the Confederacy during the Civil War?

What did Lincoln's assassin yell after shooting Lincoln?

Why was the Emancipation Proclamation a turning point in the Civil War?

What was the term used for the process of bringing the Southern states back into the Union, rebuilding the South’s economy, and promoting the rights of former slaves?

Whose Reconstruction Plan required wealthy and prominent Southerners to write to the president directly in order to receive pardons?

Which federal agency did Abraham Lincoln approve in the hours before his assassination?

In what city was the KKK founded?

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Description	Match:
Where in Pennsylvania did the Union and Confederates engage in a 3-day battle in 1863?	Battle of Gettysburg
After which battle did Lincoln initially announce his intention to free the slaves in areas that were still in rebellion after January 1, 1863?	Battle of Antietam
Why was the Emancipation Proclamation a turning point in the Civil War?	It changed the war to give it a moral cause (the end of slavery)
Why was Lincoln's Re-Election a turning point in the Civil War?	It meant that there would not be a negotiated peace with the South
Which Supreme Court precedent undermined Reconstruction by ruling that the right to ride trains and use public facilities was the duty of a state to regulate and not Congress?	Slaughterhouse Cases
Where was President Lincoln on April 14, 1865 when an assassin shot him in the head?	Ford's Theater
Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln?	John Wilkes Booth
Which federal agency did Abraham Lincoln approve in the hours before his assassination?	Secret Service
Which of the co-conspirators of John Wilkes Booth escaped by fleeing the country and was eventually caught in Egypt?	John Surrat
What did Lincoln's assassin yell after shooting Lincoln?	Sic Semper Tyrannis! (Ever thus to tyrants!)
Whose Reconstruction Plan was known as the “Ten Percent Plan”?	Abraham Lincoln
Whose Reconstruction Plan required wealthy and prominent Southerners to write to the president directly in order to receive pardons?	Andrew Johnson
Which group in Congress pushed for harsher Reconstruction terms for the South?	Radical Republicans
What group of Southerners hoped to unite Southern whites and regain Southern power?	Redeemers
Which Reconstruction Plan called for a majority of a state’s prewar voters to swear a loyalty oath before Reconstruction could begin and called for African American equality?	Wade-Davis Bill
Which fraternal organization formed to subjugate and intimidate freedmen?	Ku Klux Klan
What was the name for laws passed in the South that aimed to limit African American rights?	Black Codes
Which tactic to prevent African Americans from voting required the payment of money in order to vote?	Poll Tax
Which rule allowed poor and uneducated Southern whites to vote while still preventing African Americans from voting under discriminatory tactics in the South?	Grandfather Clause
Which laws in the South sought to keep African Americans and whites segregated?	Jim Crow Laws
What was the term used for the process of bringing the Southern states back into the Union, rebuilding the South’s economy, and promoting the rights of former slaves?	Reconstruction
For the first time in history, how did journalists like Matthew Brady bring battlefield images of the Civil War to the public?	Photographs
Where did the majority of African Americans live after the Civil War?	Rural South
Which song, allegedly written by Daniel Decatur Emmett of Ohio became the unofficial anthem of the Confederacy during the Civil War?	Dixie
In what city was the KKK founded?	Pulaski, Tennessee