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What was Sand Creek?
This battle marks the beginning of the Indian Wars.
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What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
This Amendment abolished slavery.
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Who were the Radical Republicans?
The goal of punishing the South would be most consistent with the Reconstruction Plans of -
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What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This white supremacist group formed to terrorize newly freed African Americans during Reconstruction and still exists today.
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What is Fort Sumter?
This is where the first shots of the war were fired.
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What was the Homestead Act?
This law encouraged white settlers to move west onto Indian lands.
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Who were the Radical Republicans?
This group is responsible for the passage of the Reconstruction Amendments.
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What is ten percent?
Lincoln's Plan required this percentage of voters to take the loyalty oath before the state could be readmitted to the Union.
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What is a carpetbagger?
A northerner who came into the South for economic opportunity was known as this.
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What is Antietam?
This was the single bloodiest day of the war.
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What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
General Custer died in this key battle where 263 soldiers died fighting the Lakota and Cheyenne.
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What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
This Amendment made it illegal to enact Black Codes.
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Who was Hiram Revels OR Blanche Bruce?
Initially, Reconstruction led to empowerment and enfranchisement of African Americans. This African American man even served in the U.S. Congress.
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Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This Civil War general became the 18th president of the United States in 1868.
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What is 1865?
This is the year the war ended.
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Who were the Buffalo Soldiers?
This African American cavalry unit escorted white settlers to their claims after the Civil War.
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What is African American males?
The 15th Amendment guaranteed suffrage for this group.
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Who was Andrew Johnson?
This president attempted to veto most Radical Republican plans.
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What is African American equality?
The primary disagreement between Radical Republicans and President Johnson during Reconstruction was on this issue.
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Who is Grant?
This general was also known as "the Butcher."
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What was the Dawes Act?
This law broke up the reservations in an attempt to "Americanize" Native Americans.
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What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?
The 14th Amendment nullified this Supreme Court ruling.
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What is impeachment?
This is how Radical Republicans responded to Andrew Johnson's vetoes.
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Who is Jim Crow?
This fictional character came to life in the form of segregation laws.
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Who was McClellan?
This general was relieved of duty for the final time after failing to pursue Lee at the battle of Antietam.
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What is debt peonage?
A system in which workers are bound in servitude until what they owe is paid off.
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