Civil War

Question 0

1834 ANDREW JACKSON IMPEACHMENT

Answer 0

WAS IMPEACHED FOR ASSUMING POWERS NOT GIVEN TO THE CHEIF EXECUTIVE BY THE CONSTITUTION

     - VIOLATED THE SEPARATIONS OF POWER IN HIS ACTION TO DESTROYING BANK OF U.S 
     - VIOLATED STATES RIGHTS IN SOUTH CAROLINAS NULLIFICATION 
     - VIOLATED LAWS AND TREATIES IN DEALING WITH NATIVES

Question 1

1865 FREEDMENS BUREAU

Answer 1

HELPED FORMER BLACK SLAVES & POOR RIGHTS AFTER THE CIVIL WAR TO ADJUST TO THE NEW SOCIETY;

PROVIDED HOUSING, FOOD, MEDICAL, SCHOOLS & LEGAL ASSISTANCE

GOVERNMENT COULDNT FULLY COMMIT DUE TO LOW FUNDS, PERSONNEL ALONG WITH POLITICS AND RACIAL RECONSTRUCTION

Question 2

1870 REDEEMERS

Answer 2

PRO DEMOCRATIC ALL WHITE PARTY

       - SHARED THE GENERAL DISDAIN FOR REPUBLICANISM AS WELL ASS THE RIGHTS FOR AFRICANS 
       - WANTED TO DESTROY RACE RELATIONS, POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS 
       - GAVE RISE TO THE JIM CROW ERA

Question 3

1820 COMPROMISE

Answer 3

PROVISION

1. MISSOURI WAS ADMITTED AS A SLAVE STATE AND MAINE AS A FREE STATE
2. EXCEPT FOR MISSOURI SLAVERY WAS TO BE EXCLUDED FROM LOUISIANA PURCHASE TERRITORY

IT WAS AN EFFORT BY CONGRESS TO DEFISE THE POLITICAL RIVALRIES FOR ADMISSION OF SLAVE STATES AND FREE STATES

     - ADMISSION AS A SLAVE OR FREE STATE WOULD UPSET THE BALANCE OF POLITICS 
     - IT SET A CONGRESSIONAL ACCEPTANCE IN THE EXPANSION OF SLAVERY

Question 4

DRED SCOTT CASE

Answer 4

IT DECLARED MISSOURI COMPROMISE AS UNCONSTITUTIONAL; CONGRESS WAS PROHIBITED BY THE 5TH AMENDMENT FROM DEPRIVING INDIVIDUALS OF PRIVATE PROPERTY AND WITHOUT THE DIE PROCESS OF LAW

MADE A DIVISION BETWEEN THE NATION THAT HELPED LINCOLN ELECTION AND THE CIVIL WAR

Question 5

CIVIL WAR TECHNOLOGY

Answer 5

WEAPONS; REPEATING RIFLE, PISTOL AND SUBMARINE

TECHNOLOGY; RAILROADS, TELEGRAPH, PHOTOGRAPHY

Question 6

EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION

Answer 6

ALL STATES ALL SLAVES IN REBELLIOUS STATES SHALL BE THEN HENCEFORWARD AND FOREVER FREE”

DIDNT FREE SLAVES BUT WAS AN IMPORTANT TURNING POINT IN THE WAR; TRANSFORMED THE WAR FROM A FIGHT TO PRESERVE THE UNION TO A FIGHT FOR HUMAN FREEDOM

Question 7

SAND CREEK MASSACRE

Answer 7

SOUTHERN INDIAN WERE KILLED BY COLORADO VOLUNTEERS AT SAND CREEK

ENDED LONG CONFLICT FOR CONTROL OF THE GREAT PLAINS IN EASTERN COLORADO

Question 8

COMPROMISE OF 1850

Answer 8

ADMITTED LAWS

- CALIFORNIA AS A FREE STATE 
- CREATE UTAH AND NEW MEXICO POPULAR VOTE FOR IF STATE WOULD BE FREE OR SLAVE 
- SETTLING TEXAS NEW MEXICO BOUNDARY DISPUTE 
- ENDING SLAVE TRADE IN D.C 
- FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT 

THE COMPROMISE ENABLED CONGRESS TO AVOID SECTIONAL AND SLAVERY ISSUES FOR SEVERAL YEARS

Question 9

FREE SOIL PARTY

Answer 9

OPPOSED THE EXTENSION OF SLAVERY INTO NEWLY ACQUIRED TERRITORIES

     - STRINGENT CONDITIONS TO READMISSION OF CONFEDERATE STATES
     - ABOLISH SLAVERY 
     - GRANT CIVIL RIGHTS

Question 10

HABEAS CORPUS

Answer 10

MEANS “SHOW ME THE BODY”
-YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW WHO IS ACCUSING YOU AND WHAT YOUR BEING ACCUSED OF

THIS RIGHT IS SUSPENDED IF YOUR PART OF A REBELLION OR INVASION
-LINCOLN SUSPENDED THIS RIGHT TO ALL CONFEDERATE REBELS DURING CIVIL RIGHTS

Question 11

WAR OF 1812

Answer 11

THE UNITED STATES DECLARED WAR ON GREAT BRITAIN

   - FEDERALIST PARTY ENDED
   - BOOSTED NATION SELF CONFIDENCE 
   - ENCOURAGED THE GROWING SPIRIT OF AMERICAN EXPANSION

Question 12

CORNERSTONES SPEECH

Answer 12

-ANNOUNCED NEW GOVERNMENT FOUNDED
-NOT ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL
BLACK WERE INFERIOR TO WHITES
WHITE WAS SUPERIOR TO BLACKS
-SECURE SLAVERY
-SUCCESSION WAS ABOUT SLAVERY

ALL THIS IN THE NEW CONSTITUTION IN CONFEDERATE STATES

Question 13

TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD

Answer 13

SYSTEM OF TRANSPORTATION TJAT LINKED UNITED STATES EAST TO WEST AND HELPED WOTH RAPID GROWTH AND EXPANSION WESTWARD

Question 14

FREDRICK DOUGLAS

Answer 14

A PROMINENT ABOLITIONIST
WORLD RENOWNED ANTI SLAVERY ACTIVIST

PROFOUNDLY SHAPED BEING BLACK IN AMERICA AND HAD A HUMAN CALLING TO RESIST OPPRESSION

Question 15

BLACK CODES

Answer 15

DESIGNED TO RESTRICT FREED BLACK ACTIVITY TO ENSURE THE AVAILABILITY TO WORK AS A LABOR FORCE

BLACK CODES HELPED UNDERMINE SUPPORT FOR POLICIES; CONTROL OVER RECONSTRUCTION SHIFTED TO THE MORE RADICAL REPUBLIC PARTY

Question 16

BATTLE OF ADOBE WALLS

Answer 16

BATTLE OF 28 WHITE HUNTERS WITH HIGH POWERED RIFLES ATTACKED INDIANS IN OLD TRADING POST IN TEXAS

INDIAN RESISTANCE ON THE SOUTHERN PLAINS HAD BEEN EFFECTIVELY BEEN COLLAPSED

Question 17

FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT

Answer 17

WERE A PAIR OF FEDERAL LAWS THAT ALLOWED FOR THE CAPTURE AND RETURN OF RUNAWAY SLAVES

• MOST CONTROVERSIAL LAWS OF THE 19th CENTURY
• EXPOSED THE WEAKNESS IN 1850 COMPROMISE

Question 18

ANDERSONVILLE PRISON

Answer 18

IT WAS THE CONFEDERATE MILITARY PRISON FOR UNION SOLDIERS

13,000 UNION SOLDIERS DIED IN THERE

Question 19

CONSTITUTIONAL UNION PARTY

Answer 19

CONSTRUCTED ON WHIGS, NATIVIST POPULATION THERE PLATFORM WAS BASED ON DEFENSE OF THE UNION AN ENFORCE THE LAW AND HAVE A NATIONAL COMPROMISE

Question 20

SHARECROPPING

Answer 20

Sharecropping is a system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on the land.