APUSH TERMS 5

Question 1

Bloodiest single day of fighting during the Civil War resulted in a draw and prompted Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 1

Antietam

Question 2

Major turning point of the Civil War when Sherman’s Union Army victory insured the re-election of Lincoln

Answer 2

Fall of Atlanta

Question 3

During the Civil War the Union (Northern) plan devised by General Winfield Scott to blockade the South and restrict its trade to win the war.

Answer 3

Anaconda Plan

Question 4

Lincoln’s 1863 proclamation that legally abolished slavery in all states that remained out of the Union. While it did not immediately free a single slave, it signaled an end to the institution of slavery.

Answer 4

Emancipation Proclamation

Question 5

Radical reconstruction plan with the far reaching punitive measures against the southern states and their eventual readmission into the Union.

Answer 5

Wade Davis Bill

Question 6

The period following the Civil War in which the devastated Southern States were slowly restored economically, politically and socially.

Answer 6

Reconstruction

Question 7

Vice President who succeeded Lincoln after the assassination. Was very unpopular with Radical Republicans and opposed many Reconstruction Plans. He was the first president to be charged with articles of impeachment.

Answer 7

Andrew Johnson

Question 8

After the Civil War, local laws passed by Southern “Johnson” governments to force Freedmen to continue working as plantation laborers. They imposed taxes, and laws meant to intimidate freedmen, and restrict blacks’ ability to own property. They condemned the newly freed slaves to conditions not unlike slavery.

Answer 8

Black Codes

Question 9

An expression used as a vote getting stratagem by the Republicans during the election of 1876 to offset charges of corruption by blaming the Civil War on the Democrats

Answer 9

Waving the bloody shirt

Question 10

Labor system by which landowners and impoverished southern farm workers, particularly African Americans, divided the proceeds from crops harvested on the landowner’s property. Ended up pushing farmers into a cash-crop production and trapped them into long term debt.

Answer 10

Sharecropping

Question 11

Resolved the disputed election of 1876 between Sam Tilden and Rutherford B Hayes. Known as the catalyst that ended Reconstruction

Answer 11

Compromise of 1877

Question 12

Southern political movement that sought and did return “home rule” to the southern states during reconstruction

Answer 12

Redeemers

Question 13

A 19th century term for political corruption during the Gilded Age, which included bribery scandals, abuses of the spoils system and political cronyism.

Answer 13

Grantism

Question 14

A doctrine supported by liberals claiming the less government does, the better the economy will be. “Hands Off” “Leave Alone”

Answer 14

Laissez Faire

Question 15

The belief that those blessed with great wealth earned it through Darwinist competition but they also were obligated to improve society and mankind through philanthropy.

Answer 15

Gospel of Wealth

Question 16

Laws enforcing segregation or control of Blacks in such a manner as to make them unequal after reconstruction.

Answer 16

Jim Crow Laws

Question 17

“Detective” agency or private police hired by the Federal Gov’t to spy on the South during the Civil War and used by business owners to intimidate Unions with strong arm tactics.

Answer 17

Pinkerton

Question 18

Early American labor union that failed to achieve economic and social acceptance because its members were unskilled, expendable and “un-American”. The union was prone to violence, linked to communism, and anarchism.

Answer 18

Knights of Labor

Question 19

During the Gilded Age it was the notorious Tammany Hall political machine led by “Boss” William M. Tweed. In two years it defrauded the City of $200,000,000 1868-71.

Answer 19

Tweed Ring

Question 20

Bill that attempted to pacify the plains Indians by giving them land to farm. Many Indians sold their land for alcohol.

Answer 20

Dawes Act

Question 21

1862 act that gave land to applicants who occupied and improved the property. Led to the rapid development of the American West after the Civil War.

Answer 21

Homestead Act

Question 22

Railroad line that connected the Central Pacific to the Union Pacific lines enabling goods to move by railway from the eastern US all the way to California

Answer 22

Transcontinental Railroad

Question 23

This act sought to end the abuses of the spoils system and was passed by Grover Cleveland. It mandated civil service exams for employment in the government.

Answer 23

Pendleton Act

Question 24

Paper money issued during the civil war to help finance the war effort and stabilize the economy

Answer 24

Greenback

Question 25

A second burst of inventions and economic expansion during the Gilded Age including greater use of steel, steam, electricity, and the internal combustion engine.

Answer 25

2nd Industrial Revolution