The Civil War ended April 9, 1865 at Appomattax Courthouse, Virgina. Use your notes to answer questions 1 - 3: 1. List the terms of surrender: 2. Which side won the Civil War? 3. How did President Lincoln and General Grant treat the South at the surrender, and what does that show about how they wanted to rebuild the Unites States?
Lincoln freed the slaves with the Gettysburg Address. He officially freed the slaves with the 13th Amendment. The following is a copy of the 13th Amendment. Use the 13th Amendment to answer questions 4 - 9: Transcript of 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Abolition of Slavery (1865) AMENDMENT XIII
Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. Passed by Congress January 31, 1865. Ratified December 6, 1865.
Note: A portion of Article IV, section 2, of the Constitution was superseded by the 13th amendment.
4. This document is the 13th Amendment to what? A. Constitution B. Magna Carta C. editorial in the paper D. Federalist Papers
5. The amendment was ratified on what date? A. July 4, 1776 B. January 31, 1865 C. January 28, 2009 D. December 6, 1865
6. What did this Amendment do? A. outlaws alcohol B. gives women the right to vote C. promotes freedom of speech D. outlaws slavery
7. Who would be most in favor of this amendment passing? A. abolitionists B. plantation owners C. farmers D. none of these would be in favor of the amendment
8. According to Section 2, who has the power to enforce the article? A. slave owners only B. no one C. Congress D. citizens
9. Closest to what time frame was this created? A. before the Civil War B. before the Revolutionary War C. after the Vietnam War D. after the Civil War
Watch the video below about the death of Abraham Lincoln to answer questions 10 - 14.
10. When did Abraham Lincoln start receiving death threats? 11. How did Abraham Lincoln get to Washington D.C? 12. Why was Lincoln embarrassed about the way he got to Washington D.C.? 13. Who shot Abraham Lincoln? 14. What is the job of the Secret Service?
John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1965 while Lincoln was watching a play with his wife. Read the following to answer questions 15-20: John Wilkes Booth was an actor during the Civil War. But he isn't remembered for his talent on the stage. Booth will always be known as the man who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. Booth was born May 10, 1838. He came from a family that was strong in the theater. When the Civil War broke out, he promised his mother that he wouldn't volunteer for the army. He did support the South and wanted them to win the war. During the winter of 1864 to 1865, Booth met with several other people. Together, they planned to kidnap the president. They wanted to exchange him for Southern prisoners. Booth tried to kidnap Lincoln several times, but he couldn't do it. So, Booth changed his plan. Instead, he would assassinate the president. Other members of the group would attack the vice president, the secretary of state, and General Grant. The night of April 14, 1865, Lincoln was seeing a play with his wife at Ford's Theater. Booth went up to the box and shot Lincoln in the back of the head. He then jumped from the balcony to the stage. He broke his leg. Limping, he escaped the theater. Lincoln would be carried across the street. He would die the next morning. Lincoln was the first president in this country to be assassinated. Outside was a theater employee who was holding Booth's horse for him. The employee had no idea what had happened. He watched Booth ride away. The next day, Booth arrived at the house of Dr. Samuel Mudd. He also did not know what had happened. He set Booth's leg. After going into town, he heard what had happened. He went home and kicked Booth out of his house. Dr. Mudd would later be sent to jail for helping Booth. In 1869, President Andrew Johnson would pardon him. After being on the run for many days, Booth arrived at the Garrett farm. It was April 24. The New York Cavalry Unit was not far behind him. Booth hid in a tobacco shed on the property. The soldiers following him got to the farm on April 26. Booth was ordered to surrender. He refused. The barn was set on fire. In the confusion, a soldier shot Booth. The bullet hit him in the neck. He was paralyzed from the neck down. Booth was dragged from the building. He died about two hours after being shot. There are those who believe Booth really escaped that day. But many people came forward and identified Booth's body, including a dentist and a doctor. Booth's body was finally returned to his family in 1869. He was buried in the family plot. In 1994, Booth's family wanted the body exhumed. They wanted tests done to see if it really was Booth who was buried there. A court refused saying that there wasn't enough evidence that it wasn't Booth. Of the attacks that were planned, only the one on Lincoln was successful. The rest of the men lived to see the end of the Civil War. Vice President Andrew Johnson would become president when Lincoln died. The men who helped Booth plan the attacks went to trial. Many of them were hanged. Some were sentenced to life in prison. Booth did not achieve his goal. Killing Lincoln did not help the South. It was too late for that. Lincoln did not see the end of the war, but he had achieved his goal. The Union had been saved and the slaves were free.
15. What did Booth plan to do first? A. Join the Northern army B. Kidnap the president C. Assassinate the president
16. What happened when Booth jumped from the balcony? A. He broke his leg. B. He broke his arm. C. He was killed.
17. Where was Booth hiding when he refused to surrender? A. Under a bridge B. In a house C. In a tobacco barn
18. What happened to the rest of the men Booth planned to attack? A. They were also killed. B. They were kidnapped. C. They all lived.
19. Do you think John Wilkes Booth helped or the hurt the South rebuild? Explain your answer.
20. What day month and year was Lincoln shot?
Walt Whitman wrote the poem below in 1865, very soon after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. It was published for the first time in the New York Saturday Press in November, 1865. It immediately became a very popular poem, and was republished in numerous newspapers. There are several versions of the poem, as Whitman was continuously rewriting and revising it. Use the poem to answer questions 21 -26:
O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN!
O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring; But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red! Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead. O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells; Rise up-for you the flag is flung-for you the bugle trills, For you bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths-for you the shores crowding, For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning; Here, Captain! dear father! This arm beneath your head! It is some dream that on the deck You've fallen cold and dead. My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still, My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will; The ship is anchor'd safe and sound, its voyage closed and done, From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won; Exult, O shores! and ring, O bells! But I, with mournful tread, Walk the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.
21. In what year did Walt Whitman write "O Captain! My Captain!"? A. 1868 B. 1860 C. 1888 D. 1865
22. Who is the "captain" in this poem? A. A captain in the Confederacy B. Walt Whitman's father C. Abraham Lincoln D. Captain Ahab
23. What war had just ended at the time that this poem was written? A. The Revolutionary War B. The Mexican War C. The Civil War D. World War I
24. What major event in history is the poem written about? A. General Lee's surrender B. Assassination of Abraham Lincoln C. Sherman's March to the Sea D. Washington crossing the Delaware
25. The poem, "O Captain! My Captain!" is a metaphor, comparing two events. What two events are being compared by this poem?
26. What is Whitman asking the captain to do in this poem?
Below are pictures of the South after the Civil War. Use the pictures to answer 27-30:
27. After looking at the pictures above, describe the condition in the South after the Civil War: 28. Define the word "Reconstruction": 29. Explain why the South needed to be reconstructed after the Civil War: 30. If you lived in the North, would you want to pay for the South to be reconstructed? Explain your answer:
Watch the video below to learn more about Reconstruction. Use the video to answer questions 31 - 39:
31. With Reconstruction, the struggle between North and South shifted from the battlefield to ___. 32. How many slaves were freed after the Civil War? 33. Who did the government send to occupy the South? 34. What is the 13th Amendment? 35. What is the 14th Amendment? 36. What is the 15th Amendment? 37. True or False: Not too long after the Civil War, African-Americans were voted into many public office. 38. When did Reconstruction come to an end? 39. How long did the struggle of Reconstruction last?
Use this link to answer question. Use the first definition. 40. What is the definition of the carpetbagger?
Use this link to answer question Use the second definition. 41. What is the definition of scalawag? Lincoln's plan for the South to rejoin the United States was called the 10% Plan. Use the information below to answer questions 42 - 44: LINCOLN'S 10% PLAN
A general amnesty would be granted to all who would take an oath of loyalty to the United States and pledge to obey all federal laws pertaining to slavery
High Confederate officials and military leaders were to be temporarily excluded from the process
When one tenth of the number of voters who had participated in the 1860 election had taken the oath within a particular state, then that state could launch a new government and elect representatives to Congress.
42. True or False: The Southern people had to take an oath of loyalty to the United States and obey the new slavery laws. 43. What happened to the Confederate officials and military leaders? 44. How many Southerners had to agree to rejoin the United States?
Read the information below to learn what happened after Lincoln was shot. Use the information to answer questions 45 - 48: The Union victory in the Civil War in 1865 may have given some 4 million slaves their freedom, but the process of rebuilding the South during the Reconstruction period (1865-1877) introduced a new set of significant challenges. Under the administration of President Andrew Johnson in 1865 and 1866, new southern state legislatures passed restrictive "black codes" to control the labor and behavior of former slaves and other African Americans. Outrage in the North over these codes eroded support for the approach known as Presidential Reconstruction and led to the triumph of the more radical wing of the Republican Party. During Radical Reconstruction, which began in 1867, newly enfranchised blacks gained a voice in government for the first time in American history, winning election to southern state legislatures and even to the U.S. Congress. In less than a decade, however, reactionary forces–including the Ku Klux Klan–would reverse the changes wrought by Radical Reconstruction in a violent backlash that restored white supremacy in the South. 45. What were black codes? 46. What president allowed the South to pass black codes? 47. Was radical reconstruction good or bad for the freed slaves? Explain your answer: 48. Why did the KKK begin?
As a result of Reconstruction, the KKK began. Watch the video below to answer questions 49 - 56:
49. What is a vigilante group and who created the vigilante groups in the South? (You might need to look in the dictionary.) 50. What group was the most intimidating to African-Americans? 51. Did the KKK go out during the day or at night? 52. True of False: African-Americans in the South had to carry passes with them at all times. 53. True or False: The KKK used violence to enforce their rules. 54. Why do you think the KKK forced the freed African-Americans to work on the plantation? 55. True or False: The KKK followed the laws of the land. 56. True or False: Terror was key to controlling African-American.
Reconstruction failed when the army left the South. It took 100 years before African-Americans were finally treated as equals in the South. It took many brave men and women to stand up and peacefully gain their rights, including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Watch the video below to answer questions 57 - 68:
57. What year was the "March on Washington"? 58. What was the name of Dr. King's speech? 59. What happened in the South to school children a month before Dr. King's speech? 60. Who was the president during the "March on Washington"? 61. How many people marched? 62. True or False: It was the largest demonstration in U.S. history? 63. Who was the last speaker? 64. True or False: Dr. King talked about the Emancipation Proclamation in his speech. 65. What was the Emancipation Proclamation? 66. What was the main point of Dr. King's speech? 67. When was the Civil Rights Act passed? 68. Why was the Civil Rights Act important?
Use your head to answer the last two questions: 69. How do you balance freedom after being in chaos? 70. How did the Civil War impact the environment of the United States?
The Civil War ended April 9, 1865 at Appomattax Courthouse, Virgina. Use your notes to answer questions
1 - 3:
1. List the terms of surrender:
2. Which side won the Civil War?
3. How did President Lincoln and General Grant treat the South at the surrender, and what does that show about how they wanted to rebuild the Unites States?
Lincoln freed the slaves with the Gettysburg Address. He officially freed the slaves with the 13th Amendment. The following is a copy of the 13th Amendment. Use the 13th Amendment to answer questions 4 - 9:
Transcript of 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Abolition of Slavery (1865)
AMENDMENT XIII
Section 1.
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Section 2.
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Passed by Congress January 31, 1865. Ratified December 6, 1865.
Note: A portion of Article IV, section 2, of the Constitution was superseded by the 13th amendment.
4. This document is the 13th Amendment to what?
A. Constitution
B. Magna Carta
C. editorial in the paper
D. Federalist Papers
5. The amendment was ratified on what date?
A. July 4, 1776
B. January 31, 1865
C. January 28, 2009
D. December 6, 1865
6. What did this Amendment do?
A. outlaws alcohol
B. gives women the right to vote
C. promotes freedom of speech
D. outlaws slavery
7. Who would be most in favor of this amendment passing?
A. abolitionists
B. plantation owners
C. farmers
D. none of these would be in favor of the amendment
8. According to Section 2, who has the power to enforce the article?
A. slave owners only
B. no one
C. Congress
D. citizens
9. Closest to what time frame was this created?
A. before the Civil War
B. before the Revolutionary War
C. after the Vietnam War
D. after the Civil War
Watch the video below about the death of Abraham Lincoln to answer questions 10 - 14.
10. When did Abraham Lincoln start receiving death threats?
11. How did Abraham Lincoln get to Washington D.C?
12. Why was Lincoln embarrassed about the way he got to Washington D.C.?
13. Who shot Abraham Lincoln?
14. What is the job of the Secret Service?
John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1965 while Lincoln was watching a play with his wife. Read the following to answer questions 15-20:
John Wilkes Booth was an actor during the Civil War. But he isn't remembered for his talent on the stage. Booth will always be known as the man who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln.
Booth was born May 10, 1838. He came from a family that was strong in the theater. When the Civil War broke out, he promised his mother that he wouldn't volunteer for the army. He did support the South and wanted them to win the war.
During the winter of 1864 to 1865, Booth met with several other people. Together, they planned to kidnap the president. They wanted to exchange him for Southern prisoners. Booth tried to kidnap Lincoln several times, but he couldn't do it. So, Booth changed his plan. Instead, he would assassinate the president. Other members of the group would attack the vice president, the secretary of state, and General Grant. The night of April 14, 1865, Lincoln was seeing a play with his wife at Ford's Theater. Booth went up to the box and shot Lincoln in the back of the head. He then jumped from the balcony to the stage. He broke his leg. Limping, he escaped the theater.
Lincoln would be carried across the street. He would die the next morning. Lincoln was the first president in this country to be assassinated.
Outside was a theater employee who was holding Booth's horse for him. The employee had no idea what had happened. He watched Booth ride away.
The next day, Booth arrived at the house of Dr. Samuel Mudd. He also did not know what had happened. He set Booth's leg. After going into town, he heard what had happened. He went home and kicked Booth out of his house. Dr. Mudd would later be sent to jail for helping Booth. In 1869, President Andrew Johnson would pardon him.
After being on the run for many days, Booth arrived at the Garrett farm. It was April 24. The New York Cavalry Unit was not far behind him. Booth hid in a tobacco shed on the property. The soldiers following him got to the farm on April 26. Booth was ordered to surrender. He refused. The barn was set on fire. In the confusion, a soldier shot Booth. The bullet hit him in the neck. He was paralyzed from the neck down. Booth was dragged from the building. He died about two hours after being shot.
There are those who believe Booth really escaped that day. But many people came forward and identified Booth's body, including a dentist and a doctor.
Booth's body was finally returned to his family in 1869. He was buried in the family plot. In 1994, Booth's family wanted the body exhumed. They wanted tests done to see if it really was Booth who was buried there. A court refused saying that there wasn't enough evidence that it wasn't Booth.
Of the attacks that were planned, only the one on Lincoln was successful. The rest of the men lived to see the end of the Civil War. Vice President Andrew Johnson would become president when Lincoln died. The men who helped Booth plan the attacks went to trial. Many of them were hanged. Some were sentenced to life in prison.
Booth did not achieve his goal. Killing Lincoln did not help the South. It was too late for that. Lincoln did not see the end of the war, but he had achieved his goal. The Union had been saved and the slaves were free.
15. What did Booth plan to do first?
A. Join the Northern army
B. Kidnap the president
C. Assassinate the president
16. What happened when Booth jumped from the balcony?
A. He broke his leg.
B. He broke his arm.
C. He was killed.
17. Where was Booth hiding when he refused to surrender?
A. Under a bridge
B. In a house
C. In a tobacco barn
18. What happened to the rest of the men Booth planned to attack?
A. They were also killed.
B. They were kidnapped.
C. They all lived.
19. Do you think John Wilkes Booth helped or the hurt the South rebuild? Explain your answer.
20. What day month and year was Lincoln shot?
Walt Whitman wrote the poem below in 1865, very soon after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. It was published for the first time in the New York Saturday Press in November, 1865. It immediately became a very popular poem, and was republished in numerous newspapers. There are several versions of the poem, as Whitman was continuously rewriting and revising it. Use the poem to answer questions 21 -26:
O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN!
O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,
The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won,
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring;
But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red!
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;
Rise up-for you the flag is flung-for you the bugle trills,
For you bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths-for you the shores crowding,
For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;
Here, Captain! dear father!
This arm beneath your head!
It is some dream that on the deck
You've fallen cold and dead.
My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still,
My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will;
The ship is anchor'd safe and sound, its voyage closed and done,
From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won;
Exult, O shores! and ring, O bells!
But I, with mournful tread,
Walk the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
21. In what year did Walt Whitman write "O Captain! My Captain!"?
A. 1868
B. 1860
C. 1888
D. 1865
22. Who is the "captain" in this poem?
A. A captain in the Confederacy
B. Walt Whitman's father
C. Abraham Lincoln
D. Captain Ahab
23. What war had just ended at the time that this poem was written?
A. The Revolutionary War
B. The Mexican War
C. The Civil War
D. World War I
24. What major event in history is the poem written about?
A. General Lee's surrender
B. Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
C. Sherman's March to the Sea
D. Washington crossing the Delaware
25. The poem, "O Captain! My Captain!" is a metaphor, comparing two events. What two events are being compared by this poem?
26. What is Whitman asking the captain to do in this poem?
Below are pictures of the South after the Civil War. Use the pictures to answer 27-30:
27. After looking at the pictures above, describe the condition in the South after the Civil War:
28. Define the word "Reconstruction":
29. Explain why the South needed to be reconstructed after the Civil War:
30. If you lived in the North, would you want to pay for the South to be reconstructed? Explain your answer:
Watch the video below to learn more about Reconstruction. Use the video to answer questions 31 - 39:
31. With Reconstruction, the struggle between North and South shifted from the battlefield to ___.
32. How many slaves were freed after the Civil War?
33. Who did the government send to occupy the South?
34. What is the 13th Amendment?
35. What is the 14th Amendment?
36. What is the 15th Amendment?
37. True or False: Not too long after the Civil War, African-Americans were voted into many public office.
38. When did Reconstruction come to an end?
39. How long did the struggle of Reconstruction last?
Use this link to answer question. Use the first definition.
40. What is the definition of the carpetbagger?
Use this link to answer question Use the second definition.
41. What is the definition of scalawag?
Lincoln's plan for the South to rejoin the United States was called the 10% Plan. Use the information below to answer questions 42 - 44:
LINCOLN'S 10% PLAN
42. True or False: The Southern people had to take an oath of loyalty to the United States and obey the new slavery laws.
43. What happened to the Confederate officials and military leaders?
44. How many Southerners had to agree to rejoin the United States?
Read the information below to learn what happened after Lincoln was shot. Use the information to answer questions 45 - 48:
The Union victory in the Civil War in 1865 may have given some 4 million slaves their freedom, but the process of rebuilding the South during the Reconstruction period (1865-1877) introduced a new set of significant challenges. Under the administration of President Andrew Johnson in 1865 and 1866, new southern state legislatures passed restrictive "black codes" to control the labor and behavior of former slaves and other African Americans. Outrage in the North over these codes eroded support for the approach known as Presidential Reconstruction and led to the triumph of the more radical wing of the Republican Party. During Radical Reconstruction, which began in 1867, newly enfranchised blacks gained a voice in government for the first time in American history, winning election to southern state legislatures and even to the U.S. Congress. In less than a decade, however, reactionary forces–including the Ku Klux Klan–would reverse the changes wrought by Radical Reconstruction in a violent backlash that restored white supremacy in the South.
45. What were black codes?
46. What president allowed the South to pass black codes?
47. Was radical reconstruction good or bad for the freed slaves? Explain your answer:
48. Why did the KKK begin?
As a result of Reconstruction, the KKK began. Watch the video below to answer questions 49 - 56:
49. What is a vigilante group and who created the vigilante groups in the South? (You might need to look in the dictionary.)
50. What group was the most intimidating to African-Americans?
51. Did the KKK go out during the day or at night?
52. True of False: African-Americans in the South had to carry passes with them at all times.
53. True or False: The KKK used violence to enforce their rules.
54. Why do you think the KKK forced the freed African-Americans to work on the plantation?
55. True or False: The KKK followed the laws of the land.
56. True or False: Terror was key to controlling African-American.
Reconstruction failed when the army left the South. It took 100 years before African-Americans were finally treated as equals in the South. It took many brave men and women to stand up and peacefully gain their rights, including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Watch the video below to answer questions 57 - 68:
57. What year was the "March on Washington"?
58. What was the name of Dr. King's speech?
59. What happened in the South to school children a month before Dr. King's speech?
60. Who was the president during the "March on Washington"?
61. How many people marched?
62. True or False: It was the largest demonstration in U.S. history?
63. Who was the last speaker?
64. True or False: Dr. King talked about the Emancipation Proclamation in his speech.
65. What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
66. What was the main point of Dr. King's speech?
67. When was the Civil Rights Act passed?
68. Why was the Civil Rights Act important?
Use your head to answer the last two questions:
69. How do you balance freedom after being in chaos?
70. How did the Civil War impact the environment of the United States?