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This is the name that the Southern states took on during the war. A 100
What is the Confederacy? A 100
Farmers who grew crops on land owned by someone else and who gave some of their crops to the landowner in return for the use of land and supplies. A 200
Who are sharecroppers? A 200
During the war, President Lincoln suspended this which meant that people could be arrested without being notified of the reason. A 300
What is habeas corpus? A 300
If this happens to a president, he has been charged and convicted of “high crimes or misdemeanors”. A 400
What is impeachment? A 400
This allows a president to let a bill expire without signing it and without formally making a stand against it. A 500
What is a pocket veto? A 500
This person was president during the Civil War. B 100
Who is Abraham Lincoln? B 100
This person assassinated the president just after the Civil War ended. B 200
Who is John Wilkes Booth? B 200
This president was impeached after the Civil War, but was not removed from office. B 300
Who was Andrew Johnson? B 300
This man led the Union army during the Civil War. B 400
Who was Ulysses S. Grant? B 400
This man led the Confederate army during the Civil War. B 500
Who was Robert E. Lee? B 500
One of the causes of the Civil War, which means that states were divided against each other. C 100
What is sectionalism? C 100
This was an attempt to keep the balance of slave and free states, which eventually led to the Civil War. C 200
What is the Compromise of 1850? C 200
One of the most important differences between the Union and the Confederacy during the Civil War (other than slavery). C 300
What is the level of industrialization? C 300
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This book, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, is considered by some to be one of the major causes of the Civil War. C 400
What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin? C 400
This was the name of the territorial Civil War in Kansas that was caused by a disagreement over whether Kansas and Nebraska should be free or slave states. C 500
What is Bleeding Kansas? C 500
The 13 th Amendment did this. D 100
What is formally abolished slavery? D 100
The 14 th Amendment did this. D 200
What is declared all former slaves and people born in the United States citizens? D 200
The 15 th Amendment did this. D 300
What is gave voting rights to former male slaves? D 300
This was written during the Civil War with the intent of freeing slaves in the Confederate States. D 400
What is the Emancipation Proclamation? D 400
This is a set of laws that prevented former slaves from taking advantages of all of their rights D 500
What are Jim Crow Laws? D 500
Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction was considered by many to be too lenient because he didn’t want to do this to the South. E 100
What is punish? E 100
President Johnson was impeached because Congress claimed he didn’t have the power to do this. E 200
What is firing the Secretary of War? E 200
Some groups such as this in the South responded violently to Reconstruction. E 300
What is the Ku Klux Klan? E 300
The Freedmen’s Bureau set up more than 4,000 of these after the war. E 400
What are schools? E 400
One of the reasons that Reconstruction came to an end. E 500
Answers will vary. E 500
This man was caned in Congress because he called a Southern Senator a “harlot for slavery”. F 100
Who was Charles Sumner? F 100
Shots fired at this location in South Carolina are the first official shots of the Civil War. F 200
What is Fort Sumter (Charleston, SC)? F 200
One of the five border states. F 300
What is Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, or Missouri? F 300
The South’s strategy in the war was to fight a “war of attrition”, meaning this. F 400
What is to fight until the other side is too tired to go on? F 400
The North’s strategy in the war was to do this. F 500
What is to starve the South into giving up by cutting off their resources? F 500
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