APUSH - Period 5

Question 1

13th amendment

Answer 1

forever abolished slavery as an institution in all U.S. states and territories

Question 2

14th amendment

Answer 2

grant citizenship to “All persons born or naturalized in the United States,” thereby granting citizenship to formerly enslaved people.

Question 3

15th amendment

Answer 3

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude

Question 4

Abraham Lincoln

Answer 4

US President elected in 1860, first president elected from republican party

Question 5

Anaconda Plan

Answer 5

military strategy proposed by Union General Winfield Scott early in the American Civil War. plan was naval blockade of the Confederate littoral, a thrust down the Mississippi, and the strangulation of the South by Union land and naval forces.

Question 6

Battle of Antietam

Answer 6

The Battle of Antietam pitted Union General George McClellan’s Army of the Potomac against General Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia. The Maryland Campaign was Lee’s first attempt to take the war North and it was McClellan who was tasked by President Abraham Lincoln with stopping him.

Question 7

Appomattox Court House

Answer 7

The Appomattox Court House cultural landscape marks the beginning of the country’s transition to peace and reunification following four years of Civil War

Question 8

Black Codes

Answer 8

restricted black people’s right to own property, conduct business, buy and lease land, and move freely through public spaces. A central element of the Black Codes were vagrancy laws.

Question 9

Bleeding Kansas

Answer 9

a series of violent civil confrontations in Kansas Territory, and to a lesser extent in western Missouri, between 1854 and 1859. It emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas.

Question 10

Border States

Answer 10

It is a popular belief that the Border States-Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, and West Virginia–comprised the Civil War’s middle ground, a region of moderation lying between the warring North and South

Question 11

Bull Run

Answer 11

the first full-scale battle of the Civil War. The fierce fight there forced both the North and South to face the sobering reality that the war would be long and bloody.

Question 12

Carpetbagger

Answer 12

former Union soldiers, businessmen looking to start new businesses, or individuals working with the Freedman’s Bureau.

Question 13

Civil Rights Act of 1866

Answer 13

Declared all persons born in the United States to be citizens, “without distinction of race or color, or previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude.

Question 14

Compromise of 1850

Answer 14

The acts called for the admission of California as a “free state,”

Question 15

Compromise of 1877