Civil war and reconstruction

Question 1

Lincoln’s 10% reconstruction plan

Answer 1

Southerners except for leaders could be pardoned and gain citizenship by taking an oath to support the constitution and the 13th amendment, abolishing slavery

Question 2

Lincoln’s second inaugural address

Answer 2

“With malice toward none, with charity toward all” Lincoln called for a time of healing

Question 3

Who did general Lee surrender his Confederate army to

Answer 3

General Grant

Question 4

Where did general Lee surrender his army at?

Answer 4

Appomattox courthouse, VA

Question 5

Grant’s terms of surrender

Answer 5

Most humane conditions in millitary history, the soldiers would not be disturbed, there would not be any hanging or jailing of traitors

Question 6

Who assassinated president Lincoln?

Answer 6

John Wilkes booth

Question 7

Where was president Lincoln assassinated?

Answer 7

Ford’s theatre

Question 7

What were black codes?

Answer 7

Restricted former slaves

Question 8

Freedman’s bureau

Answer 8

An agency that helped slaves

Question 9

How many military districts did the southern government have?

Answer 9

5 millitary districts

Question 10

Reconstruction Amendments

Answer 10

13th, 14th & 15th amendment

Question 11

13th amendment:

Answer 11

Abolishment of slavery

Question 12

14th amendment:

Answer 12

Naturalization and being granted citizenship

Question 12

15th amendment:

Answer 12

Right to vote

Question 13

Who were the klu Klux klan?

Answer 13

A secret white society that intimidated blacks to keep them from voting

Question 14

Who was Ida B. wells

Answer 14

Fought against the lynching of blacks

Question 15

Significance of the election of 1860?

Answer 15

Abraham Lincoln was elected as president, then 7 states seceded

Question 16

What did the dred scott decision establish?

Answer 16

Established that slaves were not considered citizens, they were seen as property

Question 17

A group of eleven southern states that left the union to form their own country?

Answer 17

Confederate states of America

Question 18

Law passed by Congress as part of the compromise of 1850 that made it illegal for citizens to protect runaway slaves

Answer 18

Fugitive slave act

Question 19

An 1820 agreement reached between the north and south to try to maintain the balance between free and slave states in America

Answer 19

The Missouri compromise

Question 20

A book written by in 1852 by abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe that informed many Americans on the issue of slavery

Answer 20

Uncle Tom’s cabin

Question 21

Who was uncle tom’s cabin written by

Answer 21

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 22

A controversial law passed by Congress that permitted the residents of Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether slavery would or would not be permitted in their states

Answer 22

Kansas-Nebraska act

Question 23

Supreme court decision that stated that slaves were not a citizen and did not have rights

Answer 23

Dredscott v. sanford

Question 24

What was John brown's plan at Harper ferry?

Answer 24

To capture federal arsenal and start a rebellion to lead to the end of slavery

Question 25

What was the transcontinental railroad?

Answer 25

Connected both coasts of the U.S . by railroad

Question 26

Bessemer process

Answer 26

Steel producers had a more efficient way of producing steel

Question 27

What did Alexander Graham bell invent

Answer 27

Telephones

Question 28

What did Thomas Edison invent

Answer 28

Lightbulbs

Question 29

What was the assembly line

Answer 29

A way of organizing work efficiently with workers performing simple no craftsmanship

Question 30

Corporation

Answer 30

An organization that could combine large financial resources with minimum risk

Question 31

What did the laissez-faire capitalism make possible

Answer 31

Made it possible for business leaders to create monopolies that stifled competition

Question 32

Who invented the steel industry

Answer 32

Andrew carnegie

Question 33

Who invented banking

Answer 33

J.P. Morgan

Question 34

Crop lien system:

Answer 34

Arrangement in which share croppers promise their crops to merchants in exchange for supplies

Question 35

Anarchists

Answer 35

who hate all forms of governments

Question 36

American Federation of Labor (AFL)

Answer 36

workers that worked to improve working conditions, higher wages and shorter hours through collective bargaining

Question 37

Amnesty

Answer 37

An official pardon issued by government