1. introduction

Question 1

key term

amendment

Answer 1

USA has fixed constitution

Article 5 allows for some amendments for matters so important they cannot be dealt with by usual laws

Question 2

key term

freed men

Answer 2

people released from enslavment

Question 3

key term

abolitionist

Answer 3

member of the movement (largely in northern states)

slavery as a moral evil and socially and economically backward

Question 4

how many AA slaves

Answer 4

4 million

Question 5

13th amendment

when

Answer 5

1865

Question 6

13th amendment

what

Answer 6

ends slavery

Question 7

when did confederate states/south surrender

Answer 7

1865

Question 8

AA often had no other option than

Answer 8

share cropping ( white landowners allow former slaves to work their land in return for considerable share)

Question 9

key term

old south

Answer 9

southern slave states
term of nostalgia suggesting their had been peace and harmony between owners who looked after their slaves and slaves who respected and loved their owners
this was not reality of system with considerable brutality and sexual exploitation

Question 10

what characterised immediate post war period?

Answer 10

uncertainty.

Question 11

American Civil war

Answer 11

confederate states (southern states) which broke away from union in 1861 after election of republican
Lincoln
(was opposed to further expansion of slavery and was considered a threat to slavery)

war fought between north (union) and south (confederacy) 1861-65

abolitionist fought hard to end slavery eventually succeeding in 1865

Question 12

Abraham Lincoln

Answer 12

abolished slavery in areas controlled by Union in 1862
persuaded congress to introduce amendment which ended slavery everywhere in 1865
assassinated 1865