1860s America

Question 1

When did Bologna Pony Express begin?

Horseback mail

Answer 1

1860

Question 2

In what year did Abraham Lincoln become president?

Answer 2

1860

Question 3

In what year were the confederate states formed? And who was made its president? In what year?

Answer 3

1861

Jefferson Davies made president - also in 1861

Question 4

In what year did the civil war begin?

Answer 4

1861

Question 5

In what year did the Sand Creek massacre happen?

Answer 5

1864

Question 6

In what year was Lincoln assassinated?

Who became the new president

Answer 6

1865

Johnson became president

Question 7

In what year was the KKK founded?

Answer 7

1866

Question 8

In what year was the 13th amendment passed?

And what did it do?

Answer 8

1865

Outlawed slavery

Question 9

What did historian Philips believe about slavery?

Answer 9

He believed that slaves were happy with their conditions, they had a good relationship with their owners (who were rarely brutal or sexuality exploitative) and they were worked no harder then free Americans

Question 10

What did historian Stamp believe about reconstruction?

Answer 10

They were badly treated, sexually exploited, punished severely, forced to work long hours and even killed by their owners