4th Exam 1301 April

Question 1

Overseer

Answer 1

The overseer watched the slaves progress and disciplined those working too slowly.

Question 2

Drivers

Answer 2

Drivers were slaves themselves. A driver might be convinced by a master to manage the slaves for better privileges. Drivers were usually hated by the rest of the slaves.

Question 3

Slave Codes

Answer 3

Outlined the rights of slaves and the acceptable treatment and rules regarding slaves.

Question 4

Southern Code

Answer 4

Addressed the behaviors of both men and women. Gentlemen must be courteous, truthful, and honorable. While women must be gracious and genteel.

Question 5

Manumission

Answer 5

Many slaves became free through MANUMISSION, the voluntary emancipation of a slave by a slaveowner. Manumission was sometimes offered because slaves had outlived their usefulness or were held in special favor by their masters.

Question 6

African Methodist Episcopal Church

Answer 6

It was established with black leadership and spread from Philadelphia to Charleston and many other areas in the South despite laws that forbade blacks from preaching.

Question 7

Thomas L. Jennings

Answer 7

He invented a method for the dry cleaning of clothes.

Question 8

Henry Blair Glenn Ross

Answer 8

He patented a seed planter and contributed to the advancement of science.

Question 9

Treaty of 1818

Answer 9

This treaty called for the joint occupation of Oregon — only a temporary solution.

Question 10

Conestoga Wagon

Answer 10

Oxen and supplies comprised most of the cost.

Question 11

John Slidell

Answer 11

Was sent to Mexico with an offer. The United States would pay Mexico a combined sum of $30 million for the Texan boundary of the Rio Grande, New Mexico territory, and California.

Question 12

Anti-expansionist

Answer 12

“A person opposed to expansion, esp. territorial or economic expansion.”
(Whigs)

Question 13

“Bear Flag Republic”

Answer 13

was not taken seriously, but Fremont and his followers did march to Monterey to capture the Mexican PRESIDIO, or fort. By 1847, California was secure. (A revolt of American settlers in California against Mexican rule)

Question 14

Treaty of Guadulupe Hidalgo

Answer 14

The MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR was formally concluded by the TREATY OF GUADALUPE-HIDALGO.
By its terms, Mexico ceded 55 percent of its territory.

Question 15

David Wilmot

Answer 15

His proposal divided both parties along sectional lines. He could be considered racist today.

Question 16

“Slave power”

Answer 16

Jumped off the lips of northern lawmakers when they angrily referred to their southern colleagues.

Question 17

Salmon P. Chase

Answer 17

He commemorated the $10,000 bill, founded the Free Soil Party in 1848.
This party advocated an end to the spread of American slavery and elected 14 representatives and two senators to the federal government.

Question 18

Gag Rule

Answer 18

Forbidden the discussion of slavery for much of the previous decade.

Question 19

Lewis Class (Michigan)

Answer 19

Democratic candidate for President in the election of 1848, coined the term “popular sovereignty”.

Question 20

Millard Fillmore

Answer 20

Successor of President Zachary Taylor, he was interested in compromise and by 5 months after the death of the President he immediately makes the “Clays Compromise” a law.

Question 21

Fugitive Slave Law

Answer 21

Requiring northerners to return runaway slaves to their owners under penalty of law.

Question 22

Senator Stephen A. Douglas (of Illinois)

Answer 22

The person behind the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

Question 23

Republican Party

Answer 23

Non-slavery interests, the party of Abraham Lincoln.

Question 24

Border Ruffians

Answer 24

Infamous people who threatened to shoot, burn and hang those who opposed slavery.

Question 25

Free Soilers

Answer 25

Drew up a free state constitution and elected a separate governor and state legislature located in Topeka.

Question 26

Beecher Bibles

Answer 26

A other name for boxes of Sharp rifles shipped to anti-slavery forces.

The name for the rifles came from the antislavery preacher, Henry Ward Beecher, noting that a rifle might be a more powerful moral agent on the Kansas plain than a Bible.

Question 27

Star of the West

Answer 27

An unarmed merchant vessel that President James Buchanan sent 200 soldiers and supplies on to reinforce Anderson.

Question 28

General Pierre Gustave

Answer 28

He began the Civil War when Confederate artillery, under the command of him, opened fire on Fort Sumter.

Question 29

Army of Northern Virginia

Answer 29

General Irvin McDowell did not want to fight but was pressured to act on July 18 (three months after the war had begun) McDowell marched his army of 37,000 into Virginia.

Question 30

Bloody Lane

Answer 30

Country road between two farms, filled with dead and dying sometimes two and three deep.

Question 31

Siege of St. Petesburg

Answer 31

For nine months, Grant and Lee faced each other from 53 miles of trenches during this Siege.

Question 32

Wilmer Mclean

Answer 32

His home was a meeting point for Lee and Grant to offer a surrender.

Question 33

Gentleman’s Agreement

Answer 33

The agreement of surrender was nicknamed this due to the character of both generals (Grant and Lee)

Question 34

Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 34

Declared “that all persons held as slaves” within the rebellious states “are, and henceforward shall be free. (made by President Lincoln)

Question 35

Copperheads

Answer 35

Also known as “Peace,” Democrats repeatedly thwarted the President’s leadership initiatives.

Question 36

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Answer 36

At age 12, with $100 in borrowed money, “Commodore” Cornelius Vanderbilt began building a shipping and railroad empire. He died the wealthiest man in America.

Question 37

Women’s Role

Answer 37

Women’s roles changed dramatically during the war. Before the war, women of the North had already been prominent in some industries, including textiles, clothing, and shoe-making. With the conflict, there were significant increases in the employment of women in occupations.

Question 38

Clara Barton

Answer 38

Working in a patent office, became one of the most admired nurses during the war and, as a result of her experiences, formed the AMERICAN RED CROSS.

Question 39

Draft Riot in NYC 1863

Answer 39

When recruiting for the army began in July 1863, a mob in New York wrecked the main recruiting station. Then, for three days, crowds of white workers marched through the city, destroying buildings, factories, streetcar lines, homes. The draft riots were complex — anti-Black, anti-rich, anti-Republican.

Question 40

Food Riots

Answer 40

occurred in Mobile, Atlanta and Richmond. Over the course of the war, inflation in the South caused prices to rise by 9000%.

Question 41

Angels of the Battlefield

Answer 41

Civil War nurses were sometimes called “angels of the battlefield,” working long hours to heal and comfort wounded and dying soldiers.

Question 42

James Seddon

Answer 42

the Confederate Secretary of War said he could not account for 1/3 of the army. After the fall of Atlanta, soldiers worried more about their families then staying to fight for their new country. Much of the Confederate army started home to pick up the pieces of their shattered lives.