Civil War and Reconstruction Unit

Question 1

State’s Rights

Answer 1

The Southern states wanted to assert their authority over the federal government so they could abolish federal laws they didn’t support

Question 2

Abolitionists

Answer 2

a person who doesn’t support slavery- they want to free the slaves

Question 3

Election of 1860

Answer 3

Made Lincoln president - shows how divided the nation is

Question 4

Fort Sumter

Answer 4

Union fort- marked the official beginning of the American Civil War-WASNT THE FIRST BATTLE and turned the confederacy victorious

Question 5

King Cotton

Answer 5

The idea was that the North would be forced to bow to Southern demands because of their reliance on Southern cotton in manufacturing

Question 6

Border states

Answer 6

Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri. slave states that remained loyal to the Union

Question 7

Grant/Lee

Answer 7

Grant-Military leader for the union….Lee- Military leader for the confederacy

Question 8

Sharecropping

Answer 8

economic slavery…concept that renters give 1/2 production to landowners. idea of indebting black land owners

Question 9

tenant farming

Answer 9

idea that blacks can rent land from farmers, gave HOPE for future land owning

Question 10

Hampton Roads/Merrimack Moniter

Answer 10

Showed Transitional war. (wooden warships to ironclads)

Question 11

Anaconda Plan

Answer 11

Raise a huge army - get two armies and plunge into the south, blockade the south from european trade, cut the south in half by seizing mississippi river

Question 12

Battle of Bull Run

Answer 12

marked the first LEGITIMATE battle of the civil war—-proved it wasn’t going to be easy and it wasn’t going to be short

Question 13

Battle of Antietam

Answer 13

turning point for the north — allows lincoln the strength to issue the emancipation proclamation, high water mark for the south

Question 14

Battle of Gettysburg

Answer 14

South’s last try at victory
big step for lincoln–shows the north will win

Question 15

Wade-Davis Plan

Answer 15

reaction the the 10% plan——50% now

Question 16

10% plan

Answer 16

Lincoln’s lenient plan designed to win the peace—-10% have to sign an oath to be loyal to the union

Question 17

54th massachusetts regiment

Answer 17

Union army is facing a soldier shortage so 54th massachusetts regiment—– first official All black military unit- further step to equality

Question 18

Radical Republicans

Answer 18

politician form of radical abolitionists

Question 19

Freedman’s Bureau

Answer 19

designed to provide freed slaves with resources and assistance to transition into citizenship and into functioning members of society after the Civil War

Question 20

Black codes

Answer 20

codes ment to force blacks back into economic slavery— Banned blacks from owning land in cities, one year contracts-prevented stability, ect…..

Question 21

13th amendment

Answer 21

no slavery

Question 22

14th amendment

Answer 22

restatement of the bill rights- protected blacks under bill of rights

Question 23

15th ammendment

Answer 23

banned laws restricting voting

Question 24

Thaddeus Stevens

Answer 24

BIGGEST Radical Republican, WERE DOING THIS NOW!

Question 25

Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 25

document by lincoln, after the battle of antietam lincoln has the optics on his side. declared all slaves free NOT EQUAL

Question 26

Innovative weapons/use of

Answer 26

transitions us into total warfare--- mini balls, land mines, submarines

Question 27

Gettysburg Address

Answer 27

Made gettysburg a graveyard, declared equal rights for blacks a slave goal

Question 28

Sherman's march to the sea

Answer 28

atlanta - savannah - south carolina

Question 29

hog hammock

Answer 29

last standing sea island community

Question 30

wilmot provisio

Answer 30

a proposed legislation during the Mexican-American War that aimed to ban slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico

Question 31

battle of appomattox

Answer 31

Lee evacuates west from richmond (he gets surrounded) - LEE SURRENDERS, one of the last battles