Civil War, Reconstruction, and the West

Question 1

Slavery caused…

Answer 1

The Civil War, in the Articles of Succession, 1861-1865

Question 2

Conclusion of the Civil War?

Answer 2

-Lincoln assassinated just after Lee surrenders changing the course of Reconstruction
-Leads to 13th and 14th amendments

Question 3

13th Amendment

Answer 3

abolishes slavery except as a form of punishment (black codes explicitly allowed for this)

Question 4

14th Amendment

Answer 4

Those born in the US are citizens and as thus are guaranteed certain rights BUT Black codes and Jim Crow laws

Question 5

Laws that governed the conduct of African Americans were…

Answer 5

Black Codes

Question 6

Called for the separation of races, from marriage to bathrooms

Answer 6

Jim Crow Laws

Question 7

15th Amendment

Answer 7

Right to vote cannot be denied on race, color, or previous condition of servitude

Question 8

Voting restrictions included…

Answer 8

Literacy Test, Poll Tax, and the grandfather clause

Question 9

What compromise ends some discrimination?

Answer 9

Compromise of 1877

Question 10

Indian wars included…

Answer 10

Massacres at Sand Creek and Wounded Knee, which ends it in 1890

Question 11

Central Pacific and Union Pacific join in Promontory, Utah with what railroad?

Answer 11

Transcontinental Railroad. Changes the US and population moves.