Select the THREE components of the Compromise of 1850.

What territory suffered from conflicts between pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups following the granting of popular sovereignty by Congress?

In 1858, Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas ran against each other for what elected position?

Who was te president of the seceded Confederate States of America?

What was the first state to secede from the Union on December 20, 1860?

What was the name of the Union's plan for victory in the Civil War?

What southern city was left unprotected and surrendered to the Union without putting up a fight?

Select TWO: What two cities were used in Louisiana as the state capital following the capture of Baton Rouge?

What battle had the Confederate objective of keeping the Union from advancing on the temporary capital of Shreveport?

Which Union general was placed in charge of occupied New Orleans and made quick enemies of the women of the city?

According to the "Women's Order", what was the punishment for a woman who was harassing/ disrespecting Union soldiers?

At the beginning of the Civil War, what was the Union's purpose for fighting?

When Louisiana seceded, what did the citizens want to keep from the United States?

Who from Louisiana gave a speech in Texas to help convince them to secede with the rest of the Confederacy?

What Central Louisiana city suffered a massive fire near the end of the Civil War?

Which statement is TRUE about the economies of the Union and the Confederacy prior to the Civil War?

Plantations are -

Select the TWO primary cash crops of the south prior to the Civil War.

What was the Confederacy's primary reason for fighting the Civil War?

Select the TWO advantages that the North (Union) had over the South (Confederacy).

The majority of the fighting took place in the Confederacy

What were the THREE parts of the Union's Anaconda Plan?

Who won the presidential election of 1860, despite only winning 40% of the popular vote?

One of the advantages that the Confederacy was they had a "home field advantage" as most of the fighting happened in the south.

What Louisiana location along the Mississippi River was the last to fall to the Union on July 9, 1863?

Which amendment ended slavery in the US in 1865?

What amendment granted any person born on (or naturalized) American soil, including freed slaves, citizenship. It was added in 1868.

Which amendment gave the right to vote to African-American men? (It was added in 1870)

Who became president following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln?

Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes booth at the Ford's Theater on April 14, 1865, 5 days after Lee surrendered to Grant.

What two states were offered the chance to return to the Union under Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan?

Louisiana was readmitted to the Union under the 10% Plan and did not have to experience military reconstruction?

The winner of the election of 1876 was difficult to determine due to widespread fraud in Louisiana, South Carolina, and Florida.

Who was declared the winner of the election of 1876 two days before the inauguration in 1877?

Which of the following was NOT part of the Compromise of 1877 that decided the election of 1876?

What was the purpose of the Black Codes, passed in all southern states during Reconstruction?

Which of these terms would best describe this man?

Homer Plessy was arrested in the state of Tennessee for violating the Separate Car Act.

What was the Supreme Court case from 1954 that overturned the Plessy vs. Ferguson idea of "separate but equal"?