Civil War and Reconstruction Period

Question 1

Harriet Tubman led escaped Slaves along this route to freedom

Answer 1

Underground Railroad

Question 2

The right of a territory to decide whether they would allow slavery or not

Answer 2

Popular Sovereignty

Question 3

Book written by Harriet Beecher describing the evils of slavery. Increased tensions between North and the South

Answer 3

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Question 4

Part of the Compromise of 1850; required all escaped slaves to be returned to their owners.

Answer 4

Fugitive Slave Act

Question 5

Lincoln was elected president without the vote of the South, this caused the south to secede from the Union

Answer 5

Election of 1860

Question 6

Site of the first shots of the Civil War

Answer 6

Fort Sumter (South Carolina)

Question 7

President of the Union during the Civil War

Answer 7

Abraham Lincoln

Question 8

President of the Confederacy during the Civil War

Answer 8

Jefferson Davis

Question 9

Successful Confederate General

Answer 9

Robert E. Lee

Question 10

Successful Union General

Answer 10

Ulysses Grant

Question 11

Northerners who wanted peace during the Civil War

Answer 11

Copper Heads

Question 12

Assassinated Abraham Lincoln

Answer 12

John Wilkes Booth

Question 13

Organization designed to help newly freed slaves

Answer 13

Freedman’s Bureau

Question 14

White Southern Republicans who supported Reconstruction

Answer 14

Scalawag

Question 15

Northerner Republicans who moved south during Reconstruction, sometimes for personal gain, sometimes for aid

Answer 15

Carpetbagger

Question 16

Laws restricting the rights of African Americans after the Civil War

Answer 16

Black Codes

Question 17

Using someone else’s land in return for a share of your crops

Answer 17

Sharecropping

Question 18

Pay rent for land, but get to keep your crops

Answer 18

Tennant

Question 19

Laws enforcing segregation

Answer 19

Jim Crow Laws

Question 20

Scandal during Grant’s administration

Answer 20

Gold market Scandal

Question 21

Voting restriction which said you could only vote if your grandfather had

Answer 21

Grandfather Law

Question 22

Abolished Slavery

Answer 22

13th Amendment

Question 23

Defined Citizenship

Answer 23

14th Amendment

Question 24

Voting could not discriminate based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude

Answer 24

15th Amendment

Question 25

What act is often considered the first terrorist act of the post-war South?

Answer 25

Lincoln's Assassination

Question 26

What was the worst part of the defeat from a Southerner Point of View?

Answer 26

Social and Economic Loss from freed slaves

Question 27

What was "Swallowing the Dog?"

Answer 27

Saying the oath of allegiance to the US

Question 28

In what kinds of Activities did the Klan engage in?

Answer 28

- Killed Blacks - Whipped Woman - Burned Churches - Burned Schools

Question 29

Who is Nathan Bedford?

Answer 29

Confederate war hero. Lead KKK

Question 30

What was Upham's approach to stop the Klan?

Answer 30

Do whatever is necessary to stop. FIRE WITH FIRE

Question 31

What part of Arkansas was Upham in charge of?

Answer 31

The Northeast

Question 32

What is the 3rd faction in North Carolina

Answer 32

Lumbees (Indians)

Question 33

According to the Video, when did the Civil War Truly End?

Answer 33

1875