Civil War

Question 1

What type of organization was the Ku Klux Klan?

Answer 1

White supremacist

Question 2

What did black codes do?

Answer 2

Prohibited free African-Americans from receiving farmland and orphans could be assigned to forced labor.

Question 3

Southern slaves created a type of music known as

Answer 3

Gospel tradition

Question 4

Although free many African-Americans in the south suffered from mob violence. This could turn into____ an extreme form of violence.

Answer 4

Linching

Question 5

The civil war began with ____ seceding from the union.

Answer 5

South

Question 6

After Antietam President Lincoln issued the ______ although it had no effect on slaves living in the Confederate territory.

Answer 6

Emancipation proclamation

Question 7

What invention increase the demand for slave labor and who invented it?

Answer 7

He invented the cotton gin. Eli Whitney.

Question 8

Lincoln feared Kentucky Maryland and Missouri might secede if he dealt with the issue of___

Answer 8

Emancipation

Question 9

Constitutional amendment States from denying rights to any citizen of the United States

Answer 9

14th

Question 10

Legislation passed that created a free state two new slave territories and required federal assistance in recovering runaway slaves was the_____

Answer 10

Compromise of 1850

Question 11

This legislation bestowed citizenship to African-Americans and promised equal protection under the law

Answer 11

Civil rights act

Question 12

This legislation promise that any land south of 36° 30 latitude line would be open to slavery. It also admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.

Answer 12

Missouri compromise

Question 13

The ______ allowed two territories to determine by popular vote whether slavery or not. This lead to violence in the territories.

Answer 13

The Kansas-Nebraska act

Question 14

What war of 1840s brought the United States new lands that could be settled by slaveholders?

Answer 14

War of Mexico

Question 15

This action led by John Brown, brought attention to slavery and increased northern opposition to it

Answer 15

He led an interracial band of 21 men in an attack on federal arsenal in happers.

Question 16

President Lincoln Signed the _______ proclaiming all slaves under the confederate control would be free.

Answer 16

Emancipation Proclamation

Question 17

What did the compromise of 1850 allow?

Answer 17

California would be a free state. Utah and New Mexico citizens could determine free or slave. Slave trading in DC would be prohibited.

Question 18

Machine made cotton farming more profitable?

Answer 18

Cotton grin

Question 19

This constitutional amendment gave the right to vote to all male citizens regardless of their race, color or former condition of servitude

Answer 19

15th

Question 20

What do you think President Lincoln Second inaugural address meant

Answer 20

Forgive

Question 21

The impeachment of President Andrew Johnson was an example of Congress exercising

Answer 21

Checks and balances

Question 22

The Dred Scott decision by the supreme court was an example of?

Answer 22

Judicial review

Question 23

What important military action did the north take during the civil war to restrict supplies reaching the south

Answer 23

Blockade

Question 24

What was grants terms of surrender for the Confederates at Appomattox courthouse

Answer 24

Confederate soldiers would not be prosecuted for treason

Question 25

Why did northern politicians oppose the extension of slavery into the new territories gained with the Louisiana purchase

Answer 25

The north didn’t want to see the South gain more seats

Question 26

The compromise of 1850 allowed the admittance of which state to the union as a free state

Answer 26

California

Question 27

Why did Jefferson Davis favor a defensive war for the Confederates

Answer 27

North have the advantages

Question 28

What led Southerners to become sharecroppers after the civil war

Answer 28

Cause African-Americans didn’t get paid enough money

Question 29

System where land owner provided land, season supplies in exchange for a portion of expected crop is called______

Answer 29

Sharecropping

Question 30

What role did African-Americans play in the fighting of the Civil War?

Answer 30

Needed more soldiers taking part in engagements

Question 31

List actions by President Johnson that angered radical Republicans

Answer 31

Violated the tenure office act.
Didn’t control terrorist organizations( KKK)
Dedos Congress legislation

Question 32

Once General Grant assumed overall command of the Union forces, he ordered his generals William Tecumseh Sherman and Philip Henry Sheridan to pursue a policy of?

Answer 32

Burn it all

Question 33

What was the south first military object in after South Carolina seceded?

Answer 33

Obtain and control fort Sumter

Question 34

List the reasons that were debated in the 1800s lead to a rise in sectionalism

Answer 34

South slavery
South feels like they are losing state rights
Different viewpoints
Dispute over seats and senate

Question 35

Problems faced African-Americans living in the north during reconstruction?

Answer 35

Low-paying jobs and racism

Question 36

How did the underground railroads assist escaped slaves?

Answer 36

Secret meetings Staging work

Question 37

What was the majority opinion of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case?

Answer 37

Scott’s were legally Inslaved.were property

Question 38

What affected poll taxes have in the south?

Answer 38

No one had anybody to pay to vote.

Reading writing test

Question 39

What is the purpose of black codes

What are examples of black codes

Answer 39

Back codes was a law that severely restricted the rights of newly freed African-Americans

Poll tax
Black codes prohibited free African-Americans from receiving farmland African-American orphan could be assisted to forced labor

Question 40

After the war many former slaves left Kansas. What were these former slaves called?

Answer 40

Exodusters