Causes of the Civil War and Reconstruction

Question 1

SEARS

Answer 1

Sectionalism, Election of Lincoln, Abolitionists, Rights of States’, Slavery

Question 2

Sectionalism

Answer 2

The growing tension between the North and South due to the Missouri Compromise, different economies, and the debate on slavery

Question 3

Election of Lincoln

Answer 3

The immediate cause of the war because the South thought Lincoln was going to end slavery

Question 4

Abolitionists

Answer 4

People who wanted to end slavery

Question 5

Rights of States (States’ Rights)

Answer 5

The right of the states to choose whether they wanted slavery or not. Also could be called popular sovereignty

Question 6

Slavery

Answer 6

The main cause of the Civil War, caused the North and South to be against each other

Question 7

Missouri Compromise

Answer 7

When Missouri tried to gain entry as a slave state Congress balanced the power between Slave states and free states by bringing in Maine as a free state. Caused growing tensions between North and South

Question 8

Characteristics of the North

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Urban, lots of jobs, big population, cities, manufacturing and trading was main economy

Question 9

Characteristics of the South

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Rural, plantations, slavery, less population, farming and cotton are main economy

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Characteristics of the West

Answer 10

Wild, untamed, where everyone is moving and bringing their slaves, source of contention

Question 11

Wilmot Proviso

Answer 11

Grew the tensions between the North and South

Question 12

Election of 1860

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Lincoln wins because Democrats have too many candidates and North outvotes the South. Caused South Carolina to first secede from Union

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Secession

Answer 13

States break away from the Union

Question 14

Lincoln’s Feelings About Slavery

Answer 14

Lincoln does not support slavery but will keep it if it means saving the Union. He wants to save the Union over everything.

Question 15

California

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Free State that comes into the Union causing the Compromise of 1850 to be made a law

Question 16

Compromise of 1850

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California becomes a free state, fugitive slave act is stronger, slavery illegal in Washington D.C

Question 17

Kansas-Nebraska Act

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Popular sovereignty gives the states the vote whether they want slavery or not. Border ruffians come across state lines from Missouri to vote pro-slavery and causes Bleeding Kansas

Question 18

Fugitive Slave Act and Constitution

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Pro-slavery citizens used the Constitution to defend slavery. Said that Constitution protects property and slaves are property so Constitution protects slavery.

Question 19

Border Ruffians

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Pro-slavery citizens crossed the border of Missouri and Kansas to vote pro-slavery during popular sovereignty

Question 20

Dred Scott Case

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Slave who sued for his freedom because he was taken to a free state. Supreme Court did not rule in his favor and made slavery legal everywhere in the U.S.

Question 21

Sharecropping

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Ex-slaves return to the plantations because can’t find jobs anywhere. Pay their rent to the plantation owners and can never move up economically because never make enough money

Question 22

John Wilkes Booth

Answer 22

Person who assassinated Abraham Lincoln

Question 23

Lincoln’s Reconstruction Plan

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10% of voters had to pledge an oath of loyalty

Question 24

Congress’ Plan for Reconstruction

Answer 24

50% of people who participated in the Civil War had to take an oath of loyalty to Union

Question 25

Johnson’s Reconstruction Plan

Answer 25

Pardons all Southern participants of the Civil War and does not address slave rights

Question 26

Freedmen’s Bureau

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Men and women from the North who came down to the South to build schools and homes for freed slaves

Question 27

Black Codes

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Ways to prevent freed slaves from gaining rights in the South. Could not rent property in cities, own guns, hold public meetings

Question 28

Plessy vs. Ferguson

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Created “separate but equal” segregation in the U.S.

Question 29

Segregation

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Laws in the United States that separated public entities of black and white. Separate but equal was really separate and unequal.

Question 30

Jim Crow Laws

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Laws in the South that made it legal to segregate and deny blacks rights. Some ways whites did this was stop blacks from voting, whites created poll taxes, literacy tests, and harassed and killed black voters to intimidate

Question 31

13th Amendment

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Freed slaves

Question 32

14th Amendment

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Gave freed slaves their citizenship. “If you are born or naturalized in this country you are a citizen”

Question 33

15th Amendment

Answer 33

Gave freed slaves the right to vote. “cannot deny voting based on race or color”