Civil War and Reconstruction

Question 1

President, who though a slave owner, argued that states should decide for themselves if they wanted to be a slave state or a free state, which meant the federal government wasn’t deciding the issue for them. This outraged southerners because they wanted to expand slavery in the new territory acquired from Mexico.

Answer 1

Zachary Taylor

Question 2

Senator from Kentucky who proposed a compromise between the Free-Soilers, and those that wanted to extend the Missouri Compromise to the Pacific and those that wanted to allow popular sovereignty.

Answer 2

Henry Clay

Question 3

Black female abolitionist who stirred audiences with her personal stories about the horrors of slavery. Famous for her “Ain’t I a woman” speech which merged both anti-slavery and women’s rights together.

Answer 3

Sojourner Truth

Question 4

An escaped slave from Maryland who made twenty trips back into slave territory to free family members and other slaves.

Answer 4

Harriet Tubman

Question 5

Man who led raid on federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Va. in 1859 hoping to start a rebellion of slaves.

Answer 5

John Brown

Question 6

Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Answer 6

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 7

Series of laws passed by Congress which included such provisions as California being admitted into the Union as a free state, the abolition of the slave trade in DC and the enactment of a more effective fugitive slave law.

Answer 7

Compromise of 1850

Question 8

Political party formed in 1854 to stop the expansion of slavery into the territories.

Answer 8

Republican Party

Question 9

Name of the “idea” used by individuals such as Senator Cass of Michigan and Senator Stephen A Douglas of Illinois, who argued that the right to decide whether or not slavery should exist in a territory, belonged to the people of the Territory itself.

Answer 9

Popular Sovereignty

Question 10

Slave who led a revolt in Virginia in 1831 which resulted in over fifty whites being killed before he was captured.

Answer 10

Nat Turner

Question 11

A freed slave who as a prominent preacher in Charleston quoted from the Declaration of Independence to stir up support for freedom among slaves and would be arrested and hung for planning a slave revolt in 1822.

Answer 11

Denmark Vesey

Question 12

One of two sisters from SC (father had been a slave owner) who spoke out against slavery and for women’s rights.

Answer 12

Sarah Grimke

Question 13

Militant Abolitionist who published the Liberator.

Answer 13

Wiliam Lloyd Garrison

Question 14

Law passed by Congress in 1854 which extended the principle of “popular sovereignty” for the territories and caused violence to erupt as a result of attempts to gain a majority vote.

Answer 14

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Question 15

Name given to a type of small non slave holding farmer, though could be located anywhere, were mostly found in the upland regions of the seaboard South, they populated the piedmont of Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia.

Answer 15

Yeomen

Question 16

Events that occurred before the Senatorial election in Illinois in 1858. The participants would become national figures concerning the issue of slavery in the territories.

Answer 16

Lincoln-Douglas Debates

Question 17

Supreme Court Decision where Chief Justice Roger Taney stated that African-Americans were not citizens and the Congress did not have the right to exclude slavery in the territories thus ruling the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional.

Answer 17

Dred Scott v. Sanford

Question 18

A loose organization of sympathetic abolitionists who tried to help slaves escape to the north. Some individuals would travel south to help slaves escape.

Answer 18

Underground Railroad

Question 19

Political party evolved out of a secret nativist organization founded in 1849. They attempted to rid the US of immigrant and Catholic political influence by pressuring the existing parties to nominate only native-born Protestants to office.

Answer 19

Know-Nothings

Question 20

Election where the Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln defeated a split Democratic Party insuring southerner states would secede from the Union.

Answer 20

Election of 1860

Question 21

Massachusetts Senator who was brutally beaten on the Senate chamber floor by an irate SC Representative Preston Brooks.

Answer 21

Charles Sumner

Question 22

First shots of the Civil War were fired here on April 12, 1861.

Answer 22

Fort Sumter

Question 23

The Border state whose loyalty was most vital for the protection of Washington DC.

Answer 23

Maryland

Question 24

Which region had the advantage of a larger population during Civil war and more resources including manufacturing and finacing?

Answer 24

South

Question 25

The first important battle of the Civil War. It was won by the Confederacy in Virginia on July 21, 1861.

Answer 25

1st Manassas

Question 26

President of the Confederacy

Answer 26

Jefferson Davis

Question 27

Vice-President of the Confederacy

Answer 27

Alexander Stephens

Question 28

President from 1861-1865

Answer 28

Abraham Lincoln

Question 29

President from 1845-1849

Answer 29

James Polk

Question 30

President from 1789-1797

Answer 30

George Washington

Question 31

President from 1829-1837

Answer 31

Andrew Jackson

Question 32

President from1857-1861

Answer 32

James Buchanan

Question 33

President from 1849-1850

Answer 33

Zachary Taylor

Question 34

President from 1801-1809

Answer 34

Thomas Jefferson

Question 35

Northern Democrats who opposed Lincoln’s war efforts.

Answer 35

Copperheads

Question 36

Years of the Civil War

Answer 36

1861-1865

Question 37

Name given to members of Congress who opposed the Presidential Plan for Reconstruction because the plan did not contain provisions to protect the rights of the Freedmen.

Answer 37

Radical Republicans

Question 38

Side which was hit harder by inflation during the Civil War.

Answer 38

Confederacy

Question 39

Helped get medical supplies to Union forces, and later founded the American Red Cross.

Answer 39

Clara Barton

Question 40

Finally Lincoln found a General he could depend upon. This was the last Commanding General of the Union Army and would accept Gen. Lee’s surrender.

Answer 40

Ulysses S. Grant

Question 41

Decorated regiment comprised of African-American soldiers led by Colonel Shaw, who fought a bitter battle for Fort Wagner.

Answer 41

54th Mass. Infantry

Question 42

Issued by President Lincoln in January of 1863, which declared “forever free” all slaves in areas of rebellion.

Answer 42

Emancipation Proclamation

Question 43

Most deadly battle of the Civil War which would be considered a turning point of the war. The Confederates would never again invade the North and President Lincoln gave his most memorable speech commemorating the dead on this battlefield.

Answer 43

Gettysburg

Question 44

Union General who after taking Atlanta would march his army across Georgia on his “March to the Sea”, leaving a path of destruction 60 miles wide all the way to Savannah.

Answer 44

William T. Sherman

Question 45

Site of General Robert E Lee’s surrender on April 9, 1865

Answer 45

Appomattox Court House

Question 46

Federal agency created before the war ended to help provide relief to newly freed slaves. This organization though poorly funded and given an enormous task was successful in providing schools and health care to many before it was ended in 1870.

Answer 46

Freedmen’s Bureau

Question 47

Passed by Southern legislatures immediately after the Civil War. These restricted former slaves’ personal liberty (i.e. racial segregation. Prohibited jury service by blacks and had economic restrictions) and led moderate Republicans to abandon President Johnson’s plan for Reconstruction.

Answer 47

Black Codes

Question 48

Constitutional Amendment which granted citizenship to Black Americans (i.e. overturned Dred Scott).

Answer 48

Fourteenth Amendment

Question 49

Constitutional Amendment which abolished slavery.

Answer 49

Thirteenth Amendment

Question 50

Constitutional Amendment which recognized the right to vote for black males.

Answer 50

Fifteenth Amendment

Question 51

Terrorist organization formed in 1867 to end Republican rule and restore white supremacy in the South.

Answer 51

Ku Klux Klan

Question 52

First President to be tried for impeachment. Was acquitted in the Senate by one vote.

Answer 52

Andrew Johnson

Question 53

President during Reconstruction whose name would be synonymous with corruption, graft and scandal in politics.

Answer 53

Ulysses S. Grant

Question 54

State with a majority of black legislators during Reconstruction.

Answer 54

South Carolina

Question 55

Economic system where landowners subdivided plantations into smaller farms and rented the land to freedmen under annual leases for a share of the crops or profits of the crops.

Answer 55

Sharecropping

Question 56

Years of Reconstruction.

Answer 56

1865-1877

Question 57

A Radical Republican who fought for land reform until his death shortly after the implementation of the Congressional Reconstruction plan.

Answer 57

Thaddeus Stevens

Question 58

Radical Republican who had long fought for the rights of Black Americans and who convinced suffragettes that they should put aside their struggle for the right to vote to insure that Black men would get Constitutional recognition in the Fifteenth Amendment.

Answer 58

Charles Sumner

Question 59

Act of Congress which prohibited the president from removing any federal official without consent of the Senate (March 1867).

Answer 59

Office of Tenure Act

Question 60

Derogatory name given to Northerners who came South during Reconstruction allegedly seeking wealth and power.

Answer 60

Carpetbaggers

Question 61

Election which resulted in white southerners accepting the Republican candidate, Hayes, who won less popular votes and less Electoral College votes, in exchange for federal troops being pulled out of the south. Thus ending Reconstruction and bringing in a shameful period of cruel and violent segregation that would last for over eighty years and would help create institutions embedded with racism that still challenge America today.

Answer 61

Election of 1876

Question 62

President from 1865-1869

Answer 62

Andrew Johnson

Question 63

1789-1797

Answer 63

George Washington

Question 64

1829-1837

Answer 64

Andrew Jackson

Question 65

1861-1865

Answer 65

Abraham Lincoln

Question 66

1869-1877

Answer 66

Ulysses S. Grant

Question 67

1801-1809

Answer 67

Thomas Jefferson

Question 68

1845-1849

Answer 68

James K Polk

Question 69

1809-1817

Answer 69

James Madison