Reconstruction pt. 2

Question 1

A tax that takes a specified percentage of an individual’s income.

Answer 1

Income tax

Question 2

Sleepy town in southern Pennsylvania where the most decisive battle of the war was fought in July 1863.

Answer 2

Gettysburg

Question 3

Famous speech by Abraham Lincoln in November 1863, at the dedication of a national cemetery on the site of the Battle of Gettysburg.

Answer 3

Gettysburg Address

Question 4

Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River which fell to the forces of Union General Grant in July 1863, thus splitting the Confederacy into two parts.

Answer 4

Vicksburg

Question 5

Important Union general who served under Ulysses S. Grant in both the west and east; famous for his “March to the Sea” through Georgia in 1864

Answer 5

William Tecumseh Sherman

Question 6

Virginia town where Lee surrendered to Grant on April 9, 1865.

Answer 6

Appomattox Court House

Question 7

Amendment adopted in 1865 that abolished slavery and involuntary servitude.

Answer 7

Thirteenth Amendment

Question 8

26-year-old actor and southern sympathizer who assassinated Abraham Lincoln

Answer 8

John Wilkes Booth

Question 9

White southerner who joined the Republican Party after the civil war

Answer 9

scalawag

Question 10

Established by Congress to provide food, clothing, hospitals, legal protection, and education for former slaves and poor whites in the south in 1865.

Answer 10

Freedman’s Bureau

Question 11

(1865-1877) period during which the U.S. began to rebuild after the Civil War.

Answer 11

Reconstruction

Question 12

Minority of Republicans in Congress who wanted to destroy the political power of former slaveholders and give full citizenship and voting rights to African Americans

Answer 12

Radical Republicans

Question 13

17th President of U.S.; from Tennessee; Lincoln’s successor who tried to break the planters’ power by excluding high ranking former Confederates and wealthy southern landowners from taking oath needed to restore their voting privileges; believed that “white man alone must manage the South.”

Answer 13

Andrew Johnson

Question 14

Adopted in 1868 and makes all persons born, naturalized, or former slave in the U.S. to be citizens and guarantees equal protection under the law.

Answer 14

Fourteenth Amendment

Question 16

Adopted in 1870 and prohibits denial of voting rights to people for race or for being former slaves.

Answer 16

Fifteenth Amendment

Question 17

A northerner who moved to the south after the civil war

Answer 17

carpetbagger

Question 18

First African American senator

Answer 18

Hiram Revels

Question 19

System which landowners give farm workers land, seed, and tools in return for a part of the crops they raise.

Answer 19

sharecropping

Question 20

Secret organization that used terrorist tactics for white supremacy in the south after the civil war.

Answer 20

Ku Klux Klan (KKK)