Chapter 4

Question 1

The Civil War was fought between the Union and Confederate states over the issues of slavery, federal power, and preserving the union

Answer 1

Causes of Civil War

Question 2

Following Lincoln’s election, several southern states left the Union

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Secession

Question 3

Belief that states should have great freedom to govern themselves

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States’ Rights

Question 4

Episode in which South Carolina threatened to invoke the doctrine of nullification.

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SC Nullification Crisis

Question 5

Influential South Carolina senator and one-time vice president to Andrew Jackson and adamant defender of states’ rights

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John C. Calhoun

Question 6

Compromise that meant to maintain the balance of power between slave and free states which declared that Missouri would be admitted to the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state.

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Missouri Compromise

Question 7

Compromise that allowed California to be admitted as a free state, instituted popular sovereignty in the Utah and New Mexico territories; established the Fugitive Slave Law

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Compromise of 1850

Question 8

The view held by those who believed residents of a particular state or territory should decide for themselves whether or not to permit slavery

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Popular Sovereignty

Question 9

Law attached to the Compromise of 1850 which required that northern states forcibly return escaped slaves to their owners in the South

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Fugitive Slave Law

Question 10

The Supreme Court’s decision in which the court ruled that a man had no right to sue because, as a slave, he was not a citizen. Declared he was property and also struck down the Missouri Compromise

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Dred Scott Decision

Question 11

Radical abolitionist who attacked the federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, hoping to seize weapons and give them to slaves who could then rise up in armed rebellion.

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John Brown

Question 12

Reform movement to end slavery throughout the US

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Abolitionist Movement

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After escaping slavery in Maryland, he educated himself and became the most prominent African American speaker for the abolition of slavery. He even helped John Brown plan (but didn’t participate)

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Frederick Douglas

Question 14

Escaped slave who heroically returned to the South 19 times to help other slaves escape to freedom by way of the Underground Railroad

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Harriet Tubman

Question 15

A network of people, including Harriet Tubman, who helped slaves escape to the northern US and Canada

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Underground Railroad

Question 16

Her 1852 novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, was a fictional account of the horrors faced by a slave family in the South. Though she was white and had never been a slave, her book motivated many people in the North to support the abolition of slavery

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 17

Harriet Beecher Stowe’s fictional account of the horrors faced by a slave family in the South which motivated many people in the North to support the abolition of slavery

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Question 18

Political party formed from a coalition of northern Democrats who opposed slavery, Whigs, and Free Soilers that did not call for the immediate abolition of slavery, but did oppose the extension of slavery into new US territories. Lincoln was the party’s first presidential nominee to be elected

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Republican Party

Question 19

Election in which republican and anti-slavery candidate, Abraham Lincoln, was elected president in large part due to divisions in the Democratic party over the issue of slavery. South Carolina responded by seceding the Union

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Election of 1860

Question 20

“Nation” formed by the states that seceded from the Union

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Confederate States of America

Question 21

Site of the first shots of the Civil War when Confederate troops fired on the Union fort

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Fort Sumter, SC

Question 22

President of the United States during the Civil War

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Abraham Lincoln

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Union general who finally defeated Robert E. Lee and effectively ended the Civil War

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Ulysses S. Grant

Question 24

Union general whose victory at Atlanta helped Lincoln win re-election and who is most remembered for his “march to sea”

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William T. Sherman

Question 25

First and only president of the Confederate States of American

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Jefferson Davis

Question 26

Brilliant general who commanded the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, won impressive victories at the Second Battle of Run and Chancellorsville, and eventually surrendered to Grant effectively ending the Civil War

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Robert E. Lee

Question 27

Included more railroads, more factories, and a greater population from which to draw soldiers and a labor force. Had an established government

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Northern Advantages

Question 28

Included better military leaders (initially), the need to fight only a war of attrition, and the motivation of fighting for their own independence

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Southern Advantages

Question 29

General Winfield Scott’s plan for Union victory that involved surrounding the Confederacy and cutting off all supply lines, much like an anaconda wraps around its prey and squeezes it. It restricted southern trade, transport, and communications by seizing control of the Mississippi River.

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Anaconda Plan

Question 30

Battle fought in Maryland as Lee tried to invade the North for the first time. He was turned away after the bloodiest single day of fighting of the war

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Antietam

Question 31

Fought in Pennsylvania, this battle was a key turning point in the war. Without Jackson to assist him, Lee’s forces proved less aggressive than usual and failed to win valuable high ground early in the battle. Union forces under the command of General George Meade defeated Lee’s army and ended any hope the South had of successfully invading the North. With more than $1,000 soldiers killed, wounded, or missing, it was the bloodiest battle of the entire Civil War

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Gettysburg

Question 32

Military movement across Georgia and the Carolinas in which he burned cities and destroyed railways as he attempted to trap General Lee between himself and Grant

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March to the Sea

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The guarantee that a person cannot be imprisoned without being brought before a judge. It was, at times, suspended by Lincoln during the Civil War

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Writs of Habeus Corpus

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A policy in which the government selects certain individuals for military service rather than waiting for them to enlist

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Draft

Question 35

Union Democrats who opposed Lincoln

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Copperheads

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Executive order which freed slaves in the Confederate states

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Emancipation Proclamation

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African American unit in the Union army which inspired its fellow white troops and won a place in history with its courageous assault on Fort Wagner near Charleston in July 1863

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54th Massachusetts

Question 38

Site of Lee’s surrender to Grant

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Appomattox Courthouse

Question 39

Succeeded Lincoln as president and was the first president in US history ever impeached

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Andrew Johnson

Question 40

Plan for Reconstruction supported by President Andrew Johnson. It was less severe than Radical Reconstruction and only required that southerners swear allegiance to the Union and that states denounce their secession and ratify the Thirteenth Amendment. Once done, Confederate states could re-enter the Union. It allowed power to remain in the hands of many of the same people who had led the Confederacy during the Civil War

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Presidential Reconstruction

Question 41

Republicans in Congress who favored imposing strict conditions and Republican policies on the South during reconstruction

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Radical Republicans

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Stricter form of Reconstruction backed by the Republican Congress that eventually won out over Presidential Reconstruction. It required southern states to submit to military rule, hold new constitutional conventions, grant African Americans equal right and the right to vote, and ratify the Fourteenth Amendment

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Radical Reconstruction Plan

Question 43

Constitutional amendment that ended slavery thought the United States

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13th Amendment

Question 44

Guaranteed that no person (regardless of race) would be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law. It granted blacks the status of citizenship and was ratified in 1868

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14th Amendment

Question 45

Guaranteed that no citizen may be denied the right to vote “by the United States or any state on the account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” The amendment had great impact in the South by guaranteeing African Americans the right to vote

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15th Amendment

Question 46

System in which ex-slaves paid rent to farm land owned by someone else, owned the crops they grew, and were less at the mercy of white landowners than sharecroppers

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Tenant Farming

Question 47

First federal relief agency in US history, it served to provide clothing, medical attention, meals, education, and even some land to freed blacks and some poorer whites

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Freedmen’s Bureau

Question 48

Laws meant to keep African Americans subordinate to whites by restricting the rights of freed slaves

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Black Codes

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Racist hate group whose numbers grew after WWI as it expanded its focus from simply opposing blacks and integration to attacking Jews, Catholics, and immigrants as well

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Ku Klux Klan

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Political compromise that made Republican Rutherford B. Hayes president in exchange for an end to Reconstruction

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Compromise of 1877

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Term refers to the fact that, for nearly a century after Reconstruction, Southerners remained distrustful of the Republican party and “solidly” supported Democratic candidates

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Solid South

Question 52

Laws passed in the South after Reconstruction that required blacks and whites to use separate public facilities

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Jim Crow Laws

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Requirement used by whites in the South to prevent African Americans from voting; required reading test

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Literacy Test

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Method which took advantage of the fact that most blacks were poor in order to prevent African Americans from voting

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Poll Taxes

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Special exemptions in voting laws which stated that one need not pay a poll tax or pass a literacy test if one had voted before or had ancestors who voted. They were meant to allow poor, illiterate whites vote while still excluding African Americans

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Grandfather Clause

Question 56

Separation of people based on race

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Segregation

Question 57

1896 Supreme Court case which sanctioned segregation and established the principle of “separate but equal”

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Plessy v. Ferguson

Question 58

Former slave who founded the Tuskegee Institute. He taught his students that if blacks excelled in teaching, agriculture and blue collar fields (trades requiring manual labor), they would eventually be treated as equal citizens. He was criticized by some African Americans because he saw no problem with segregation

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Booker T. Washington

Question 59

Was the first black Ph.D. graduate from Harvard University, adamantly rejected justifications for segregation. Argued that blacks should pursue occupations in the humanities and in white-collar fields. Unlike some other African American leaders, he believed that blacks must be politically, legally, and socially active in order to obtain true equality. He helped organize a group of black intellectuals known as the Niagara movement and was instrumental in founding the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

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W.E.B. Dubois

Question 60

An influential African American woman. She later campaigned against lynchings, fought for women’s suffrage, and helped organize the NAACP

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Ida Wells Barnett