Civil War

Question 1

What was the fugitive slave law? What did it lead to?

Answer 1

Required citizens to help catch runaway slaves. Led to kidnappers, stealing legally freed men and women and selling them back into slavery. Increase the belief around abolition.

Question 2

What event caused the Southern States to secede?

Answer 2

Election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 because they felt that they no longer had a voice in the national government and that the President and Congress were set on being against their interests, especially slavery.

Question 3

What is popular sovereignty? When was it implemented? Why?

Answer 3

People have the right to rule and make decision based on voting. This was implement during the Kansas Nebraska Act in order to deal with the issues of extended slavery into the western territories.

Question 4

When were slaves declared as property?

Answer 4

Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), declared that the Constitution protected slavery because slaves were labled property by the US Supreme Court

Question 5

What are the economic differences between the northern and southern states?

Answer 5

Northern states relied and developed a manufacturing industry and the southern states relied on agriculture and raw material production.

Question 6

Did Lincoln think our country could last the way it was going half slave and half free?

Answer 6

Lincoln did not believe the country could endure permanently half free and half slave. While he wanted to preserve the Union he recognized our current situation could not last forever.

Question 7

What was the compromises over slavery?

Answer 7

Missouri Compromise (MO=Slave, ME=Free, 36,30 line, kept balance but will not last)

Compromise of 1850 (Abandon MO Compromise, CA=Free, Stronger Fugitive Slave Act)

Kansas Nebraska Act (Popular Sovereignty, Bleeding Kansas, John Brown)

Question 8

Who was John Brown? What did he push us towards?

Answer 8

Abolitonist who believe in immediate emancipation through force. Contributed to “Bleeding Kansas”. Arrested and hanged for his attempt to overthrow an arsenal. Seen as martyr who pushed us into the Civil War.

Question 9

What is sectionalism why did it arise?

Answer 9

Economic interests in specific regions were different due their geographic location.

Question 10

Abolitionists were most closely associated with what other reform movement?

Answer 10

Womens Rights/Suffrage Movement

Question 11

What was the biggest advantage of the north during the Civil War?

Answer 11

More war material and human resources n (people)

Question 12

What was Lincoln’s goal prior to the Civil War? How did he justify the Civil War?

Answer 12

Preserve the Union not to end slavery. He justified the Civil War but saying he had to a duty to preserve the Union.

Question 13

What was the main cause of death during the Civil War?

Answer 13

Disease

Question 14

Who was more prepared to fight the Civil War?

Answer 14

The North

Question 15

What were the Reconstruction Amendements? (13,14,15)

Answer 15

13- Abolishes Slavery
14- Birthright Citizenship (Born in USA makes you a citizen and protects you under our laws)
15- Citizen voting rights (If you are a citizen you have the right to vote)

Question 16

Who were the Radical Republicans what did they want to do the Southern States?

Answer 16

Group of Republicans in Congress who wanted to punish the Southern States for the actions during the Civil War. They wanted to enforce political and social reform on the Souther States.

Question 17

How did Lincoln’s assassination impact Reconstruction?

Answer 17

Lincoln’s assisination impacted Reconstruction because Congress was able to enforce a much harsher punishment on the Southern States in the Wade Davis Bill.

Question 18

What were poll taxes, literacy tests, and the grandfather clause? Why were they put into place?

Answer 18

These were all ways that Southern States tried to limit the newly gained rights by African American men. They required citizens to pay a tax to votes, take a test, and exempt you from the previous requirements if your grandfathe rhad voted previously. It allowed poor white farmers to vote while limiting African American’s ability to vote.

Question 19

What was Sharecropping?

Answer 19

It was slavery in disguise, it forced newly freedmen and women to be tied to the slave because they could never earn enough to pay off they debt they acrued in order to grow the crops in the first place.

Question 20

How were Andrew Johnson and Lincoln’s plan similar?

Answer 20

Both plans sought to readmit the Southern States as quickly as possible.

Question 21

What was the purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation?

Answer 21

It was the order by Lincoln to free all enslaved people in states who were in rebellion of the Union. Changed the meaning of the Civil War increased military enrollment, and helped the North win the war.

Question 22

What was the main result of the Civil War?

Answer 22

The National Government was strengthen over the State Governments.

Question 23

What was Total War how did it impact the Civil War?

Answer 23

Destroy all civilian property, make the South feel the impacts of the War and destroy their will to fight.

Question 24

THREE strengths of the North in the Civil War were:

Answer 24

1. More supplies
   
   2. More people
   3. more states

Question 25

THREE weakness of the North in Civil War were:

Answer 25

1. Not as much food
   
   2. Were invading a territory that they were unfamilier with
   3. disagreement about slavery

Question 26

THREE strengths of the South in the Civil War were:

Answer 26

1. Did not loose as much food during the war because they specialize in agriculture
   
   2. Home field advantage
   3. Fighting for freedom

Question 27

THREE weakness of the South in Civil War were:

Answer 27

1. Only specialize in algriculture
   
   2. Less weapons and supplies than North
   3. Less people to fight than the North

Question 28

The two turning points in the Civil War were

Answer 28

the battles of Gettysburg and Vicksburg. These were turning points because the North started to acquire more parts of land that gave them a great advantage.

Question 29

The main strategy of the Confederacy was to

Answer 29

use a lot more defense than offense in the war.

Question 30

The THREE early Union strategies included:

Answer 30

1.Blocking Southern seaports
2. Gain control of the Mississippi River
3. Capture Richmond Virginia.

Question 31

Causes of Civil War

Answer 31

Immediate: Slavery
Political: Election of Abraham Lincoln
Social: Moral issue of slavery
Economic:Taxing and industrialization, plus economics with slavery

Question 32

Effects of Civil War

Answer 32

Immediate:Freedom of millions of enslaved Americans
Political:Making a new system in place of slavery
Social: Southern laws against freed slaves to prevent their voting (grandfather clause, poll taxes, test)
Economic:Gaining resources and money after spending a lot of it for the war

Question 33

The political problem facing the nation after the Civil War was finding a plan to

Answer 33

readmit the Southern states into the Union.

Question 34

The economic problem facing the South after the Civil War was to

Answer 34

rebuild homes, farms, plantations, and forms of transportation destroyed in the war

Question 35

The social problem facing the nation after the Civil War was to

Answer 35

help freed slaves get the right to vote.

Question 36

10 Percent Plan

Answer 36

Very lineant. President Lincoln introduced a Reconstruction plan known as the 10 Percent Plan which allowed for Southern states to be readmitted into the Union with a small number of Confederate voters swearing loyalty to the Union and required that slavery be abolished by ratifying the 13th Amendment.

Question 37

The Wade Davis plan

Answer 37

Over the top, really punished the southern states. The Wade Davis plan was the moderate Republican plan for Reconstruction which required that 50% of voters in southern states sign a loyalty oath and did not allow former Confederate officials to obtain presidental pardon to vote or hold office.

Question 38

Andrew Johnson’s plan

Answer 38

Andrew Johnson’s plan was like Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction in that it required that slavery be abolished by ratifying the 13th amendment. However, it differed from Lincoln’s plan in that it required a smaller amount of white men to swear an oath of loyalty to the Union. It also allowed for former Confederate officials to vote and hold office

Question 39

Radical Republican plan

Answer 39

Began with the passage of the Reconstruction Act which included a requirement for southern states to ratify the 14th Amendment. Congress passed the 15th Amendment. As a result, secrete societies of white southerners, such as the KKK, threatened African Americans with violent acts to keep them from exercising their political rights.