Civil War and Reconstruction

Question 1

abolitionist

Answer 1

people against slavery and wanted it outlawed everywhere.

Question 2

underground railroad

Answer 2

a network of people who helped slaves escape the Northern U.S. or Canada

Question 3

Fredrick Douglass

Answer 3

one of the best known abolitionists

Question 4

Missouri compromise (1820)

Answer 4

No slavery above Missouri’s boarder besides Missouri

Question 5

Compromise of 1850

Answer 5

1. Southwest states can choose to be free 2. Texas state debt is gone 3. California becomes a free state 4. slave trade is gone 5. slaves need documents to be free

Question 6

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Answer 6

Creates the territories of Kansas and Nebraska so a transcontinental railroad can be built

Question 7

Dred Scott v. Sandford

Answer 7

Scott could not legally sue since he was black/ It affirmed the most extreme southern position/ first time court deemed federal legislation unconstitutional

Question 8

Secession

Answer 8

South Carolina and other states claiming to be a separate and independent state (11 seceded in total)

Question 9

Anaconda Plan

Answer 9

Set up a naval blockade of southern ports to control the Mississippi river/ push from Mississippi river to the Pacific coast

Question 10

Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 10

Declared that “all persons held as slave are, and henceforward shall be free.”

Question 11

radical republican

Answer 11

they believed they should control reconstruction instead of the president

Question 12

Reconstruction

Answer 12

Lincoln would re-admit states for the reconstruction if they swore an oath to support the constitution

Question 13

Abraham Lincoln

Answer 13

A well known national figure/ wanted to preserve the Union

Question 14

Jefferson Davis

Answer 14

the first and only president of the Confederate states of america

Question 15

George B McClellan

Answer 15

A career Army officer and later a politician

Question 16

George G Meade

Answer 16

A U.S. army general and civil engineer

Question 17

Ulysses S. Grant

Answer 17

led the union armies to victory over the confederacy in the American Civil war

Question 18

William T. Sherman

Answer 18

American civil war general and a major architect of modern warfare

Question 19

Robert E. Lee

Answer 19

Ultimately commanded all the confederate armies

Question 20

KKK

Answer 20

The Ku Klux Klan was the name of white supremacists hate groups and terrorists

Question 21

John Wilkes Booth

Answer 21

Abraham Lincolns assassin

Question 22

Tenure of office act

Answer 22

A law that made it so the president would have to get approval from the senate to remove office holders

Question 23

Compromise of 1877

Answer 23

An unwritten political deal in the U.S. to settle the intense dispute over the 1876 presidential election

Question 24

the 13th amendment

Answer 24

Ended slavery

Question 25

The 14th amendment

Answer 25

citizenship

Question 26

the 15th amendment

Answer 26

voting rights