Civil War

Question 1

What were the basic political and economic issues leading up to the Civil War?

Answer 1

South: Slavery vs North: no slavery
South: States’ Rights vs North: 1 Strong federal Goverment
South: low tariffs vs North: high tariffs
opening of public land in the West
right of the federal government to prohibit slavery in the Western territories

Question 2

Which reform movements were there in the 19th century?

Answer 2

free public education
women's rights
higher wages
better working conditions
humane treatment for criminals + insane

Question 3

What is Abolitionist Movement?

Answer 3

complete abolition of slavery

moral, religious an political reasons

Question 4

Which famous white abolitionsts were there?

Answer 4

William Lloyd Garrison
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Theodore Parker

Question 5

Who was a black abolitionst?

Answer 5

Frederick Douglass

Harriet Tubman

Question 6

What did the Suffragette Movement right for?

Answer 6

women’s rights

Question 7

What Efforts were made to save the Union?

Answer 7

Missouri Compromise
Second Fugitive Slave Law
Kansas-Nebraska-Act

Question 8

What was the Missouri Compromise in 1850?

Answer 8

11 free states and 11 slavery states
Missouri applies for admission into the US

Solution to keep political balance:
Missouri added as slave state
Maine cut loose from Massachusetts and admitted as free state

Question 9

What is the Mason-Dixon Line?

Answer 9

splits country after slavery
north: free states
south- slavery states

Question 10

What was the Second Fugitive Slave Law in 1850?

Answer 10

fugitive slaves have to return

punishing supporters of fugitive slaves

Question 11

What was the Kansas-Nebraska-Act in 1854?

Answer 11

inhabitants of each state could decide to vote for or against slavery
bloody conflict bewtween Northern and Southern sympathizers

Question 12

Who was elected president before the Civil War?

Answer 12

Abraham Licoln

new: Republican Party (liberal) to combat expansion of slavery

Question 13

Why did the Civil War break out?

Answer 13

New President Abraham Lincoln decides not to let slavery spread into he new territories

Question 14

Who were the Confederate States?

Answer 14

7 States: SCarolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Louisiana, Texas
leave US and form Confederate States of America
in favor of slavery

later 11 States (+ Virginia, NCarolina, tennessee, Arkansas)

Question 15

Who fought in the Civil War?

Answer 15

Confederates (Greys/Rebels) vs Unionists (Yankees/Bluecoats)

Question 16

Where and when did the Civil War break out?

Answer 16

April 12 1861

Confederates attack Fort Sumter (Charleston, SCarolina)

Question 17

How many states remained loyal to US in the Civil War?

Answer 17

23 (24 with West Virginia)

Question 18

What did the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 say?

Answer 18

Abraham Lincoln:
all slaves in Conferates are free
–> slaves should not become violent though
–> slaves couldn’t read, took months for them hearing this

Question 19

Who and when won the Civil War?

Answer 19

April 14 1865
Confederate troops surrender
Lincoln is killed a few weeks later by southern fanatic

Question 20

What were the outcomes of the Civil War?

Answer 20

Confederates are disbanded
Confederates occupied by Northern Troops
South faces utter poverty, hardly anybody left to rebuild

Question 21

What introduced the 14th Amendment to the Constitution?

Answer 21

Citizenship for former slaves

Question 22

What introduced the 15th Amendment to the Constitution?

Answer 22

Right to vote for black men

Question 23

What were Freedman’s Bureaus?

Answer 23

helped former slaves to build life

Question 24

What were Northern carpetbaggers?

Answer 24

Northerners come to South and build business/profit from southerners misery

Question 25

What does “The Old South” mean?

Answer 25

Southerners feel nostalgic

wanted to go back to old south with plantations, slavery etc

Question 26

What is the Ku Klux Klan?

Answer 26

white supremacist hat group

anti African Americans, immigration, catholic

Question 27

What did the Amnesty Act in 1872 introduce?

Answer 27

Confederates are readmitted into US, but have to outlaw slavery

Question 28

How where the blacks disenfranchised?

Answer 28

property test or literacy test mandatory

poll tax

Question 29

What are the Jim Crow Laws?

Answer 29

complete apartheit/segregation of white and black

Question 30

What characterizes the South until the 1980s?

Answer 30

poverty
backwardness
conservatism
lack of equality for blacks