Civil War (final)

Question 1

Causes.

Missouri compromise

Answer 1

It was the compromise that made the division of the united states equal between the slave states and the free states

Question 2

Compromise of 1850

Answer 2

It was the compromise when California wanted to be a free state, so they allowed other states to be slavey states

Question 3

Causes

Kansas Nebraska act/popular sovereignty

Answer 3

Allowed Kansas and Nebraska to decide which they would be (slave or free) by popular sovereignty

Question 4

Causes

Dred Scott decision

Answer 4

It allowed Slavey to be citizens of America

Question 5

Causes

Election of Lincoln

Answer 5

The election of Lincoln was odd, because he didn’t get the majority of the people’s votes. Thus caused people, especially in the south to get very angry

Question 6

Battles and events

advantages and disadvantages of Union and Confederacy

Answer 6

Union-advantage- had much more free citizens, had more transport parison systems, resources
Disadvantage- unfamiliar, they didn’t want it in the first place

Confederate -advantage- they had a good reason to be doing it, when they were together, most of the good generals etc. were from the south, familiar territory
Disadvantage-too many slaves, small population, resources

Question 7

Battles

Antietam

Answer 7

Initiated the emancipation proclamation, and it was one day, bloodiest day

Question 8

Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 8

The speech that Lincoln gave as a battle tactic to make the south have a lack of resources, what this did was end slavery

Question 9

Role of African Americans in the war

Answer 9

Some of them were allowed to fight in the war, but they weren’t treated equally, most were killed because they were thrown on the front lines, others were just in charge of slaving for resources

Question 10

Gettysburg

Answer 10

This was the turning point in the war, and it had the most casualties of any battle

Question 11

Gettysburg address

Answer 11

It was the speech that Lincoln gave when he announced the cemetery he was making

Question 12

Appomattox

Answer 12

This was the surrender at Appomattox, where the south was forced to surrender

Question 13

Presidential vs. Congressional Reconstruction

Answer 13

The president, wanted to reconstruct using much different tactics than congress did, they wanted to make a more centralized government, while the congress, wanted to move closer towards the people having more say

Question 14

Share cropping

Answer 14

This was set up in the south in order for people to not necessarily own the land, but they could still have jobs, including farming jobs, whites now did the work of some slaves as well

Question 15

Black codes

Answer 15

These were the laws that the south had tried to set in place in order to restrict the rights of the free slaves and make it so that they couldn’t have any good jobs, and so that they would remain low class

Question 16

Radical republicans

Answer 16

These were all of the very hardcore republicans during this time that lasted from before the civil war to the end of reconstruction

Question 17

13th amendment

Answer 17

Abolished slavery

Question 18

14th amendment

Answer 18

Grants citizenship to everyone born in America

Question 19

15 th amendment

Answer 19

Everyone has the right to vote

Question 20

Andrew Johnson

Answer 20

He became president when Lincoln www shot, and he had very different ideas and was trying to change the government , he is the only president to almost be impeached, but he quit first

Question 21

“Redemption”/KKK

Answer 21

The KKK was a group of racist southerners who went around killing free slaves and their supporters
“Redemption” was those who wanted to just get back with the rest of America rather than fighting it after the war

Question 22

Causes

Economic differences between north and south

Answer 22

The economic differences between the north and the south, began because the north was rapid
Y industrializing, and the south stayed agricultural, also, the south stuck with slavery, while the north got rid of slavery.