Civil War

Question 1

State’s rights

Answer 1

the rights and powers held by individual US states rather than by the federal government.

Question 2

Election of 1860

Answer 2

When Lincoln was elected
-shows how divided our nation has become (4 legitimate candidates)

Question 3

King Cotton

Answer 3

a slogan and philosophy that described the economic and political importance of cotton in the South

Question 4

Ulysses Grant

Answer 4

union military leader
one of the most successful of the war

Question 5

Robert Lee

Answer 5

military leader for confederacy

Question 6

Innovative weapons/use of

Answer 6

transition into modern warfare
examples: submarines, iron clad, Minie ball.

Question 7

emancipation proclamation

Answer 7

Document signed by Lincoln
-declared slaves free

Question 8

13th Amendment

Answer 8

it officially abolished slavery

Question 9

14th Amendment

Answer 9

Protect rights and liberties of former enslaved people

Question 10

15th Amendment

Answer 10

guarantees the right to vote to all citizens, regardless of: Race, Color, and Previous condition of servitude (slavery).

Question 11

54th Massachusetts Regiment

Answer 11

Union army is facing a soldier shortage so this happened
first OFFICIAL all black unit
regiments are used to catch bullets (lincoln was concerned)

Question 12

Gettysburg Address

Answer 12

declared equal rights for blacks as a slave goal
-give meaning to the sacrifice of soldiers who died during the war
-made gettysburg a graveyard

Question 13

10% plan

Answer 13

Lincolns plan to win the peace
-10% have to sign an oath to be loyal to the union
-louisiana, Arkansas, and

Question 14

Radical Republicans

Answer 14

politician form of radical abolitionists

Question 15

Johnson’s impeachment/failed removal

Question 16

Sharecropping

Answer 16

a legal arrangement where a tenant(renter) would work a landowner’s land in exchange for a 50% share of the crops produced
-indebting black land owners

Question 17

Tenant Farming

Answer 17

idea that blacks could rent land

Question 18

Abolitionists

Answer 18

people who fought to end slavery and free enslaved people

Question 19

Fort Sumter

Answer 19

-official beginning of civil war
-not first battle

Question 20

Border States

Answer 20

Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, and these states were slave states that remained loyal to the Union despite bordering Confederate territory, essentially acting as a middle ground between the North and South.

Question 21

Merrimack and Monitor

Answer 21

-transitional war
wooden warships to ironclads
aka Hampton roads
-two ships who fought against each other

Question 22

Hampton Roads

Answer 22

-transitional war
Battle of Merrimack and monitor

Question 23

Anaconda Plan

Answer 23

-a strategy to defeat the Confederacy during the American Civil War
-A plan to strangle the Confederacy by cutting off its supplies and resources, and attacking it when it was weak

Question 24

First Battle of Bull Run

Answer 24

-first Battle of the civil war
-proved it wasn’t t going to be easy/short

Question 25

Battle of Antietam

Answer 25

-battle was a major turning point in the Union's favor south was never doing better till this point (south will never recover)

Question 26

Battle of Gettysburg

Answer 26

-union victory -showed the union will win -last gasp of the south

Question 27

Total War

Answer 27

to destroy a country's ability to wage war; crops, industry ect.

Question 28

Sherman's "March to the Sea"

Answer 28

-Sherman's goal was to destroy the Confederacy's ability to wage war and break the will of the people to resist -Sherman's troops marched from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia, destroying railroads, factories, cotton gins, and warehouses. They also liberated thousands of slaves -early example of total war

Question 29

Thaddeus Stevens

Answer 29

Huge Radical republican -fought for freedmen's rights -force behind 13 amendment when he dies the radical republican movement dies with him

Question 30

Wade Davis Plan

Answer 30

-changed the 10% plan to 50% after lincoln is killed

Question 31

Black Codes

Answer 31

southerners limited the rights of former slaves -blacks couldnt: own land had to sign one year contracts taxed if they worked jobs other than field hand

Question 32

KKK

Answer 32

hate group founded after war ended by former confederates -aimed to restore white supremacy

Question 33

Freedman's Bureau

Answer 33

a U.S. government agency that provided resources/assistance to formerly enslaved people and transition them into functioning citizens

Question 34

Johnson's impeachment

Answer 34

politically motivated -

Question 35

1

Answer 35

at first slavery was a political issue (as long as some are free some are slave) -Mexican war happened and power went to the south -uncle toms cabin makes slavery a moral isssue