CH 13/14/15

Question 1

January 1, 1863, proclamation that freed slaves in Southern territories was controlled by the Union army; this executive proclamation by President Lincoln also committed the Union to the abolition
of slavery.

Answer 1

Emancipation Proclamation

Question 2

proposed that the federal government guarantee the existence of slavery in any state where it existed, and that the line of the Missouri Compromise be extended all the way to the Pacific, with territories to the north of the line being free from slavery and
those south of the line having slavery

Answer 2

Crittenden Plan

Question 3

Lincoln’s plan to have the United States Navy blockade Southern ports, conquer the Mississippi and conquer Richmond

Answer 3

Anaconda Plan

Question 4

new naval ships built with metal siding

Answer 4

ironclads

Question 5

the Confederate legislature passed laws
requiring three years in the army for all white men from ages 18 to 35

Answer 5

conscription

Question 6

the government began issuing this money, not backed by gold, was considered official legal tender until the end of the war

Answer 6

greenbacks

Question 7

Some Democrats in the North, who vigorously opposed the war, stating that it would lead to masses of freed slaves coming North and taking jobs

Answer 7

Copperheads

Question 8

Allows a person suspected of a crime not to simply sit in jail indefinitely. Such a suspect must be brought to court and charged with something, or he or she must be released from jail

Answer 8

writ of habeas corpus

Question 9

congressional group that wished to punish the South for its secession from the Union; pushed for measures that gave economic and political rights to newly freed blacks in the South and that made it difficult for
former Confederate states to rejoin the Union

Answer 9

Radical Republicans

Question 10

act placing Southern states under military rule and barring former supporters of the Confederacy from voting

Answer 10

Reconstruction Act

Question 11

northerners who moved to the South during the Reconstruction Era; traditional elements of Southern society were deeply resentful of profits made by them

Answer 11

carpetbaggers

Question 12

term of derision used in the South during the Reconstruction Era for white Southern Republicans.

Answer 12

scalawags

Question 13

this group was founded in Tennessee in 1866; its oftentimes violent actions during the Reconstruction Era represented the resentments felt by many Southern whites toward the changing political, social, and economic conditions of the Reconstruction Era.

Answer 13

Ku Klux Klan

Question 14

political compromise ending the disputed presidential election of 1876. By the terms of this compromise Republican candidate
Rutherford B. Hayes was awarded the electoral votes of Florida, Louisiana,
and South Carolina, thus giving him the presidency; in return, all federal
troops were removed from the South and Congress promised to stop enforcing
much Reconstruction Era legislation concerning the South

Answer 14

Compromise of 1877

Question 15

citizens of former Confederate states would be given the opportunity to swear allegiance to the government in Washington (high-ranking Confederate military and civilian authorities would not be offered this
opportunity). When 10 percent of the registered voters in the state signed this
pledge, the state was afforded the chance to form its own state government,
which obviously had to be loyal to Washington

Answer 15

10 Percent Plan

Question 16

This bill stated that Congress would only
authorize a state government in former Confederate states when the majority of
voters took an “ironclad” oath, stating that they were not now disloyal to the
Union nor had they ever been disloyal

Answer 16

Wade-Davis Act

Question 17

A method a president can use to “kill” congressional legislation at the end of a congressional term. Instead of vetoing the bill, the president may simply not sign it; once the congressional term is over,
the bill will then die

Answer 17

pocket veto

Question 18

a step up from sharecropping.
The tenant farmer rented his land from the landowner, freeing him from the harsh supervision that sharecroppers suffered under

Answer 18

tenant farmers

Question 19

Amendment abolishing slavery in the
United States and all of its territories

Answer 19

13th Amendment

Question 20

this amendment stated that a person could not be denied the right to vote because of the color of their skin or whether or not they had been a slave.

Answer 20

15th Amendment

Question 21

this amendment stated that “all
persons born or naturalized in the United States” were citizens. In addition, all former Confederate supporters were prohibited from holding office in the United States.

Answer 21

14th Amendment