Chapters 11-12 and Benchmark #3

Question 0

15th amendment

Answer 0

Saying no one can be kept from voting because of race color or previous condition of servitude .

Question 1

14th amendment

Answer 1

Made all persons born or naturalized In the us citizens of the country

Question 2

Impeach

Answer 2

To formally charge the president with misconduct in office

Question 3

Ulysses s grant , when was he elected president

Answer 3

1868

Question 4

When was the emancipation proclamation issued and what happened because of it ?

Answer 4

In January 1st 1863 , didn’t free slaves immediately only applied to areas outside confederate lines .

Question 5

How did lincoln low-ball his opponents ?

Answer 5

He jailed and deported them.

Question 6

Who were copperheads ?

Answer 6

Northern Democrats who advocated peace with the south .

Question 7

What was conscription ?

Answer 7

A draft that would force certain member of the population to serve in the army .

Question 8

Why didnt the northerners want conscription ?

Answer 8

Because they didn’t want to fight with the slaves that would become free and take their jobs .

Question 9

Who was Clara Barton ?

Answer 9

Famous war nurse who eventually started the USA branch of the American Red Cross.

Question 10

What was the south short of in the war ?

Answer 10

Supplies, food, weapons , boots shoes .

Question 11

What was Andersonville ?

Answer 11

A POW camp in GA.

Question 12

What was Picketts Charge ?

Answer 12

When thousands of confederate troops we’re sent to break the union line , 7,000+ fatalities , the Union forces the South to be defensive .

Question 13

What was the Battle of Gettysburg ?

Answer 13

3-day battle , 30,000+ killed , the turning point in the war.

Question 14

What was the battle of Vicksburg ?

Answer 14

Fighting in the Mississippi River to cut the confederacy in half , forces the south to be in the defense , general lee makes a comeback.

Question 15

Surrender at Appomattox

Answer 15

Lee surrendered to Grant after Sherman’s march that ended the war.

Question 16

What amendment ended slavery ?

Answer 16

The 13th amendment

Question 17

Where was lincoln killed ?

Answer 17

Fords theater by John Wilkes Booth a famous southern actor.

Question 18

What was Lincoln’s plan for reconstruction ?

Answer 18

To have only 10% of the south to pledge and oath of loyalty to the Union, won’t be passed though because he’s dead.

Question 19

What the Radical Republicans and Wade Davis Bill ?

Answer 19

Proposed that congress , not the president was responsible for the progress of reconstruction , 50% majority oath for the South

Question 20

What was Johnson’s plan for reconstruction ?

Answer 20

The successful plan that declared if the remaining seceded states want to be re-admitted they would have to 1)withdraw succession 2)swear allegiance to the union 3)annul confederate war debts and 4) ratify the 13th amendment .

Question 21

What was the freedmans bureau ?

Answer 21

Assisted former shaves and poor whites by distributing clothing and food , set up 40+ hospitals , 4000 schools and 74 teacher training centers .

Question 22

What was the concern with adding new states to the union ?

Answer 22

The balance of shave and new states .

Question 23

What was used to help stop the spread of slavery ?

Answer 23

Saying that slaves didn’t have the right to be citizens , they were property.

Question 24

What did the Missouri Compromise , the compromise of 1850, and the Kansas Nebraska Act, have in common ?

Answer 24

They all dealt with having slaves in new territories .

Question 25

What are states rights ?

Answer 25

A law saying that states could override federal law

Question 26

What was the reaction to john browns raid ?

Answer 26

Caused shock for southern slave owners, put them on the defense .

Question 27

Why did South Carolina secede ?

Answer 27

They seceded in 1860 because because of Lincoln’s election

Question 28

What strengths did the north have against the south and vice versa.

Answer 28

The union had better troops and more supplies but the south had better trained army generals and leaders.

Question 29

What were the three parts of the union strategy ?

Answer 29

1) Blockade
2) Gain Control of Mississippi River and port
3) Take control and seize the confederate capital of Richmond, VA .

Question 30

Where were the first shots fired of the civil war ?

Answer 30

Fort Sumter .

Question 31

What was the first significant battle after fort Sumter ?

Answer 31

The battle of bull run .

Question 32

What were black codes ?

Answer 32

To limit the rights of of African Americans .

Question 33

What did people do to restrict blacks from voting ?

Answer 33

1) installing black codes
2) grandfather clause
3) poll tax

Question 34

Republican voters in the south were ??

Answer 34

Usually black men , the small percentage that could vote.

Question 35

Which statement best describes the Republican Party position on slavery in the election of 1860?

Answer 35

There should be no further extension into the territories .

Question 36

The republicans in congress interpreted the results of the election of 1866 as a sign of what ?

Answer 36

The belief among northerners that much more needed to be done to protect freedmen in the south.

Question 37

Although important strides were made, reconstruction failed to provide lasting guarantees of the civil rights of the freedmen. Where could this possibly be from ?

Answer 37

A passage of Jim Crow laws in the latter part of the 19th century.

Question 38

How were many African Americans in the south were affected by the end of reconstruction policies and the removal of union troops?

Answer 38

Jim Crow laws placed major restrictions on their rights even further.