civil war and reconstruction

Question 1

southern leader that was arrested

Answer 1

Jefferson Davis

Question 2

pardoned all rebel leaders in 1868

Answer 2

president Andrew Johnson

Question 3

banks, businesses, factories, and the transportation system was destroyed
agriculture/ slave society was destroyed
many white southerners remained defiant

Answer 3

old south

Question 4

what did the song show about the southerners

Answer 4

they did not agree with reconstruction

Question 5

why would reconstruction have been hard for the southerners

Answer 5

their entire culture was stripped away

they need to learn to accept the fact that they have to do what the north wants them to do

Question 6

who blew up military supplies in Charlestown

Answer 6

rebel troops

Question 7

what were the whites forced to face

Answer 7

the idea the emancipation was happening

Question 8

thousands of Americans traveled for the first time

Answer 8

test of freedom

Question 9

slaves that moved west

Answer 9

exododusters

Question 10

what became the focus of many African American communities

Answer 10

the church

Question 11

why did people want to move to the west

Answer 11

the availability of land that was not previously owned

Question 12

provide food, clothing, medical care, and education both to freedmen and white refugees

Answer 12

the goal of freedmen’s bureau

Question 13

what did the freedmen’s bureau achieve

Answer 13

it’s greatest success was in education

Question 14

attempted to settle former slaves on forty-acre tracts confiscated from the confederates

Answer 14

failure of freedmen’s bureau

Question 15

southerner who was not part of the planter aristocracy
refused to secede with Tennessee
appointed governor after Tennessee was recaptured by grants forces

Answer 15

Andrew Johnson

Question 16

who recaptured Tennessee

Answer 16

grants forces

Question 17

he was capable intellectually, but tactless
Tennesseean who had earned the distrust of the south
democrat who had never been elected president

Answer 17

Andrew Johnson

Question 18

did not want to be harsh on the south
believed the southern states never legally withdrew from the union
a state could be reintegrated into the union when 10% of its population swore allegiance and pledge to abide by emancipation
republicans feared the eventual restoration of the planter aristocratic

Answer 18

Lincolns 10% reconstruction plan

Question 19

rammed wade Davis bill through congress

Answer 19

radical republicans

Question 20

required that 50% of a states voters take the oath of allegiance

Answer 20

wade Davis bill

Question 21

designed to regulate the affairs of the emancipated blacks
no suffrage at all
extreme penalties for African Americans who “jumped” their labor contracts
forbade a black person to serve on a jury

Answer 21

black codes

Question 22

how many former slaves were forced to earn a living

Answer 22

sharecroppers

Question 23

entered the congress in December 1865

many were democrats which enraged radical republicans

Answer 23

ex-confederates

Question 24

what were slaves now

Answer 24

5/5ths of a person

Question 25

Vice President of the confederacy returned to congress in 1865

Answer 25

Alexander Stephens

Question 26

vetoed a bill extending the life of the controversial freedmen's bureau, causing republicans to pass the civil rights bill of 1866

Answer 26

Johnson

Question 27

had seemed to be unwinding the civil war

Answer 27

johnsons vetoes

Question 28

Johnson needs more democrats in the congress

Answer 28

the crucial congressional elections of 1866

Question 29

in the senate

Answer 29

Charles sumner

Question 30

in the House of Representatives

Answer 30

Thaddeus Stevens

Question 31

respected states rights, but also preferred policies that restrained the states from restricting citizens rights

Answer 31

moderate republicans

Question 32

divided the south into 5 military districts

Answer 32

reconstruction act of 1865

Question 33

only way to do this was 15th amendment which gave constitutional protection for the suffrage provisions of the reconstruction act

Answer 33

radical republicans

Question 34

no women voters, but took the opportunity to say we are talking about equality

Answer 34

women's rights begins

Question 35

first hesitated to grant suffrage to the freedmen of the south

Answer 35

moderates and many radicals

Question 36

allies of freedmen

Answer 36

scalawags and carpetbaggers

Question 37

southerners, former unionists and Whigs

Answer 37

scalawags

Question 38

northerners who packed their possessions into a suitcase and headed south to seek personal power and profit in the new south

Answer 38

carpetbaggers

Question 39

used terror (flogging, mutilation, murder) against African Americans

Answer 39

ku klux klan

Question 40

passed by congress to control this terrorism | 1870-1871

Answer 40

force acts

Question 41

radicals attempted to remove Johnson from office

Answer 41

tenure office act

Question 42

Johnson abruptly dismissed secretary of war Edwin Stanton in early 1868 without approval from senate

Answer 42

impeachment

Question 43

resentment all around

Answer 43

white southerners

Question 44

acted from a mixture of idealism and political expediency | take control of freedmen

Answer 44

republicans

Question 45

seceded from the union (confederacy)

Answer 45

the rebels

Question 46

tensions grow between northern industrial states and who

Answer 46

southern agricultural states

Question 47

issues surrounding what of the country and the inevitable debates over whether those territories would allow slavery to rise

Answer 47

westward expansion

Question 48

people are more Loyal to their state/ region than to the country

Answer 48

sectionalism

Question 49

United in their support for slavery | north is threatening their way of life

Answer 49

south

Question 50

believe slavery is morally wrong

Answer 50

northern abolitionists

Question 51

let people know who lived there decide; rule themselves

Answer 51

popular sovereignty

Question 52

in an effort to preserve the balance of power in congress between slave and free states was passed in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state

Answer 52

Missouri compromise

Question 53

proposed an American law to ban slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican American war

Answer 53

the wilmot proviso

Question 54

passed in the house but failed to pass in the senate | ultimately it made southerners mad

Answer 54

wilmot proviso

Question 55

Great compromiser

Answer 55

Henry clay

Question 56

``` admit California as a free state organize New Mexico and Utah as territories with popular sovereignty pay Texas to give territory to NM end slave trade but not slavery in DC compromise passed ```

Answer 56

compromise of 1850

Question 57

pass federal law enforcing the return of runaway slaves

Answer 57

fugitive slave act

Question 58

anyone caught helping runaway slaves can be fined $1000 and jailed for 6 months slaveholders now hunted for runaway slaves sent agents, offered rewards, traveled north for free or enslaved African Americans couldn't testify in court to prove they were not fugitives

Answer 58

fugitive slave act

Question 59

wrote the novel uncle toms cabin

Answer 59

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 60

sold 10,000 copies in first week reprinted in 37 languages sold over 1 million copies in British empire became a hit play turned the south against the north said abolitionists didn't know what they were talking about and we're just trying to make money

Answer 60

uncle toms cabin

Question 61

wanted to encourage settlement in Nebraska territory | 1854

Answer 61

Stephen a Douglas

Question 62

proposed dividing the region into Kansas and Nebraska | settlers in each territory would decide on the issue of ska very by popular sovereignty

Answer 62

Kansas Nebraska act

Question 63

mad because they felt the Missouri compromise was a promise to keep the west free

Answer 63

northerners

Question 64

what would happen if the Missouri compromise stayed in place

Answer 64

slaveholders won't move there so they will end up being free states

Question 65

how one piece of legislation divided a nation the act passed

Answer 65

Kansas Nebraska

Question 66

elected pro slavery legislature

Answer 66

Kansas

Question 67

punished anti slavery talk with 5 years in prison helping escaped stages slaves gave people 10 years in prison

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black laws

Question 68

passed their own constitution and elected their own rep. to congress in Kansas

Answer 68

antislavery groups

Question 69

ruled that a slave who had resided in a free state and territory was not thereby entitled to his freedom that African Americans were not and could never be citizens of the United States the Missouri compromise was said to be unconstitutional decision added fuel to to the sectional controversy and pushed the country closer to civil war

Answer 69

dred Scott decision | 1857

Question 70

abolitionist wanted to avenge the murder of 5 abolitionist so he and his supporters murdered 5 proslavery settlers over 200 people were killed

Answer 70

John brown

Question 71

democrat | support federal slave code in territories, support popular sovereignty

Answer 71

John Breckinridge

Question 72

republican | prohibit slavery in territories, contain slavery to where it exists

Answer 72

Abraham Lincoln

Question 73

democrat | oppose federal slave code in territories, support popular sovereignty

Answer 73

Stephen Douglas

Question 74

constitutional union | avoid the slavery issue and keep the country United

Answer 74

John bell

Question 75

pitted republican nominee Abraham Lincoln against Democratic Party nominee senator Stephen Douglas, southern Democratic Party nominee John Breckinridge and constitutional union party nominee John bell the main issue of the election was slavery and states rights

Answer 75

election of 1860