Part D

Question 1

Fort Sumter

Answer 1

• is a sea fort in Charleston a sea fort in Charleston, South Carolina, notable for two battles of the American Civil War.

Question 2

Confederacy

Answer 2

• a league or alliance, especially of confederate states.

Question 3

Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 3

• was an executive order issued on January 1, 1863, by President Lincoln freeing slaves in all portions of the United States not then under Union control (that is, within the Confederacy).

Question 4

Jefferson Davis

Answer 4

• the first and only President of the Confederate States of America, was a planter, politician and soldier born in Kentucky and raised in Mississippi

Question 5

Robert E. Lee

Answer 5

• Born to Revolutionary War hero Henry “Light-Horse Harry” in Stratford Hall, Virginia, seemed destined for military greatness. American general commanded the confederate army during the civil war.

Question 6

Gettysburg

Answer 6

A Battle fought from July 1 to July 3, 1863, is considered the most important engagement of the American Civil War. After a great victory over Union forces at Chancellorsville, General Robert E. Lee marched his Army of Northern Virginia into Pennsylvania in late June 1863.

Question 7

The Gettysburg Address

Answer 7

is a speech by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, one of the best-known in American history.[4][5] It was delivered by Lincoln during the American Civil War, on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, at the dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania,

Question 8

Draft Riots New York City

Answer 8

(July 13–16, 1863), known at the time as Draft Week,[3] were violent disturbances in Lower Manhattan, widely regarded as the culmination of working-class discontent with new laws passed by Congress that year to draft men to fight in the ongoing American Civil War.

Question 9

Ulysses S Grant

Answer 9

was the 18th President of the United States (1869–77). As Commanding General (1864–69), Grant worked closely with President Abraham Lincoln to lead the Union Army to victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War.

Question 10

Appomattox Courthouse

Answer 10

fought on the morning of April 9, 1865, was one of the last battles of the American Civil War. It was the final engagement of Confederate Army general Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia before it surrendered to the Union Army under Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant.

Question 11

John Wilkes Booth

Answer 11

• (May 10, 1838 – April 26, 1865) was an American actor and murderer. He assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865.

Question 12

Reconstruction

Answer 12

refers to the period following the Civil War of rebuilding the United States. It was a time of great pain and endless questions. On what terms would the Confederacy be allowed back into the Union? Who would establish the terms, Congress or the President?

Question 13

13th Amendment

Answer 13

• amendment that abolished slavery

Question 14

14th Amendment

Answer 14

• No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law

Question 15

15th Amendment

Answer 15

Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen’s “race, color, or previous condition of servitude”.

Question 16

Election of 1876

Answer 16

one of the most contentious and controversial presidential elections in American history. The results of the election remain among the most disputed ever, although it is not disputed that Samuel J. Tilden of New York outpolled Ohio’s Rutherford B. Hayes in the popular vote. After a first count of votes, Tilden won 184 electoral votes to Hayes’s 165, with 20 votes unresolved. An informal deal was struck to resolve the dispute: the Compromise of 1877, which awarded all 20 electoral votes to Hayes. Compromise was to end reconstruction era by pulling northern army from the south.

Question 17

Jim Crow

Answer 17

• was the name of the racial caste system which operated primarily, but not exclusively in southern and border states, between 1877 and the mid-1960s. was more than a series of rigid anti-black laws. It was a way of life.

Question 18

Ku Klux Klan

Answer 18

with its long history of violence, is the most infamous — and oldest — of American hate groups. Although black Americans have typically been the Klan’s primary target, it also has attacked Jews, immigrants, gays and lesbians and, until recently, Catholics. South Carolina, notable for two battles of the American Civil War.