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Explore questions in the History of the Americas category that you can ask Sparky!
- What nickname was given to white Southerners who sided with Northern Republicans after the Civil War?
- What nickname was given to Northerners (usually Republicans) who took jobs in Southern state governments after the war?
- In what 1896 case did the Supreme Court rule (8-1) that segregation was LEGAL if facilities for each race were equal?
- The Civil War began on April 12, 1861 with the Confederate bombardment of what fort in Charleston, South Carolina?
- In 1868, who became the first President of the United States ever impeached by the House of Representatives?
- What Democratic candidate for President won the popular vote in the 1876 election (but still did NOT become president)
- Who were former slaves and poor white Southerners who worked land owned by others after the Civil War?
- By the end of the Civil War, approximately how many Americans had lost their lives?
- What Tennessee Democrat became President following the death of Abraham Lincoln on April 15, 1865?
- Under the Black Codes passed by Southern governments, former slaves were only allowed to do which of these activities?
- What famous actor assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theater?
- In what small Virginia town did General Robert E. Lee finally surrender to General Ulysses S. Grant?
- After the Civil War, who became the first African American senator (filling the seat once held by Jefferson Davis)?
- What Confederate leader's plantation home in Arlington, Virginia, was turned into a burial ground for Union soldiers?
- What 1867 law placed former Confederate states refusing to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment under martial law?
- What Confederate general was a "Grand Wizard" of the Ku Klux Klan after the Civil War?
- Who unsuccessfully urged Robert E. Lee to avoid an attack on the Union Army outside of Gettysburg in July 1863?
- What Union general was chosen to lead the Freedmen's Bureau after the Civil War?
- What 115-pound general took Missionary Ridge at Chattanooga and later forced Confederates out of the Shenandoah Valley?
- Who won the Medal of Honor for his battlefield excellence at Gettysburg and went on to become governor of Maine?