American Civil War Flashcards
The term __________________ refers to those people who came from the North to the South, either to aid in Reconstruction or as political and economic opportunists.
Carpetbaggers
Republican governments were able to establish what in the South during Reconstruction?
State schools
Which state had to be readmitted to the Union twice after members of the state legislature refused to seat twenty-eight black members who had been fairly voted into office?
Georgia
Because slave owners had done their best to keep slaves illiterate, many believed that __________ was what African Americans needed to advance in society.
Education
Which of the following is NOT true of the blacks in the South under military rule?
former slaves overwhelmingly ran for political office
Unlike Lincoln’s Proclamation of Amnesty, Johnson’s Proclamation excluded from pardon all southerners who:
Owned taxable property worth over 20,000
To restrict the civil rights of freed blacks, many southern states adopted “__________ __________” that placed blacks into a situation that closely resembled slavery.
Black Codes
Under the “forfeited rights theory,” the_____________, not the President, had the authority to reconstruct the South
Congress
What was the fear of the Radical Republicans regarding Lincoln’s plan for reconstruction?
They feared that he would act without them, overstepping his executive authority.
Why did Lincoln employ the pocket veto against the Wade-Davis Bill?
He didn’t want to commit to a reconstruction plan until the war was officially over.
Congress believed the government was dealing with __________, and therefore the burden Reconstruction lay with the legislative branch.
revolting states
Lincoln’s Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction, issued in late 1863, also known as the Ten Percent Plan ______________________________.
Allowed the confederated states to form a loyal government when 10% of those who voted in 1860 took an oath of allegiance to the union.
Approximately how many American soldiers died in the Civil War?
600,000
One of the most important impacts of the Civil War was the shift in power away from the states and toward the _______________ government in the United States.
Federals
Although the entrenched views of women remained, the war offered women more opportunities outside of the __________ sphere, including supporting the war effort as nurses or taking jobs such as clerks or managers.
home
Which of the following was the highest cause of death for Union and Confederate soldiers in the Civil War?
Disease
After the Union took control of eastern Tennessee, Lincoln believed he had finally found a competent commander and promoted which Union general to be general in chief?
Grant
to make slow, cautious movements in the hopes that the Confederacy would fall elsewhere
all forms of involuntary servitude
How many African Americans served in the Union army during the Civil War?
180,000
Why did the Confederate attempts to raise revenue by tariffs not work?
Blockade
During the Election of 1864, Abraham Lincoln’s nomination was almost blocked by the ___________ Republicans.
Radical Republicans
As the Civil War raged on, Southern planters not only lost control of their slaves, they also lost the support of poor whites who believed _____________________________.
they were paying the price to support the power of the planter aristocracy
The first major land battle of the Civil War was __________.
Bull Run
The first major land battle of the Civil War was __________.
Bull Run
General Winfield Scott proposed the __________ __________, a system that called for the North to encircle and divide the Confederacy.
Anaconda plan
The _________ __________ Movement became a powerful force in the 1850s and eventually contributed to the rise of the Republican Party.
Free Soil
What was the major characteristic of American political parties by the late 1850’s
Their attention was mostly focused on Western expansion
Which major American political party faded from the political scene in the 1850’s
Whigs
The _____ _____ of 1820 allowed Americans to avoid discussion of slavery in national politics
Missouri compromise
Which amendment to the Constitution did John C Calhoun claim protected the southerners rights to take their slaves into western territories
The fifth
Which politician hoped to see the Continental Railroad go through the southern part of the United States and helped convince Congress to make the Gadsden Purchase?
Jefferson Davis
Which of the following was NOT a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Sectionalism in the united states ended for a short time
Which of the following was NOT true concerning General Winfield Scott’s nomination in the election of 1852?
Scott narrowly lost to Franklin Pierce in the Electoral College
Which politician hoped to see the Continental Railroad go through the northern part of the United States and helped organize the Kansas-Nebraska Act so that the railroad could pass through them?
Stephen A. Douglas
In Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriett Beecher Stowe portrayed slavery as morally wrong and a threat to the __________ __________.
American family
What caused the Panic of 1857?
changes in global trade markets
What was the Lecompton Constitution?
It was a document passed by the Kansas constitutional convention making Kansas a slave state.
The Election of 1856 revealed that the __________ states controlled the majority of the Electoral College.
Northern
Why did the Sectional Crisis occur in the 1850s?
Because the failure of the second party system resulted in the rise of an entirely different issue (the spread of slavery to the territories)
How many candidates were nominated to run in the 1860 election?
4
After the southern delegates walked out of the Charleston convention, they met in Richmond to nominate their own Democratic candidate. Who was he?
John C. Breckenridge
During the sectional crisis, Southerners feared Northerners wanted to destroy their __________-__________ system.
slave labor
After Lincoln declared war against the states in the Deep South that had seceded, he called for what? [choose all that apply]
a blockade of southern ports
75,000 troops
How did the federal government react to secession?
with indecisiveness
After Lincoln’s declaration of war, to which state did the rest in the upper South look for leadership?
Virginia
The Crittenden Compromise would have essentially extended which previous compromise?
The Missouri Compromise
In two or three sentences, explain the Crittenden Compromise.
The Crittenden compromise guaranteed slavery in the south.
In the early days of the Civil War, both sides saw a large response of volunteer soldiers; later on, both sides passed ______________ laws that required men to serve in the military.
conscription
The North’s advantage in __________________ during the Civil War was probably its most important asset, despite the issues of corruption and low quality manufactured goods.
manufacturing
Lincoln’s suspension of the writ of habeas corpus was unprecedented, and it allowed those suspected of conspiring with the Confederacy _______________.
to be jailed without the benefit of a trial or without being charged
Which of the following was NOT an example of an advantage the South had during the war?
It had a strong navy that made trading with foreign countries difficult for the Union.
Which two (2) nations did the Confederate government hope would support their efforts against the Union? [choose 2]
France
Great Britain
The first major land battle of the Civil War was __________.
Bull Run
General Winfield Scott proposed the __________ __________, a system that called for the North to encircle and divide the Confederacy.
Anaconda
The single bloodiest day in American military history occurred at the Battle of __________.
antietam
When delegates from __________ walked out of the Democratic Convention in 1860, the Democrat Party officially split over the issue of slavery.
Alabama
In the early years of the war, to whom was the command of Union forces offered by Winfield Scott?
Robert E. Lee
Whose famous “March to the Sea” left a 250-mile strip of destruction across Georgia?
William Tecumseh Sherman
Which of the following individuals advocated for giving freed blacks land taken from Confederate leaders under the Confiscation Act of 1862?
Charles Sumner
__________ was a Confederate extremist who shot Lincoln in the back of the head on April 14, 1865.
John Wilkes Booth
Which of the following was NOT included in the Wade-Davis Bill?
State constitutional conventions had to revoke the political rights of high-ranking Confederate leaders.
A majority of white male citizens had to swear allegiance to the Union before the state could be readmitted.
Those who served in state constitutional conventions had to swear an “ironclad” oath they had never supported the Confederacy
Confederate states had to wait five years to send representatives to Congress after being readmitted to the Union.
Confederate states had to wait five years to send representatives to Congress after being readmitted to the Union.
What was Andrew Johnson’s opinion of the planter elite of his native South?
He held them in contempt, believing they were bad for the region.
