Civil War/Reconstruction 1860-1890 #6

Question 1

South’s advantages: Military

Answer 1

defensive war
move supplies shorter distances
experienced military leaders

Question 2

North’s advantages: Military

Answer 2

x4 the population
immigrants
emancipation promises
Navy

Question 3

North’s advantages: Economic

Answer 3

85% of factories
70% RR
65% farmlands

Question 4

South’s hopes

Answer 4

outside help
cotton would bring in support from gaikoku
NEEDED money

Question 5

Antietam

Answer 5

where the officer dropped the plan

when he dropped his cigarette

Question 6

Union strategy

Answer 6

Anaconda plan
Navy block South ports

Divide South by controlling Miss. River

Raise and train 500,000 to get Richmond, VA

Question 7

Failure of cotton diplomacy

Answer 7

get cotton from other sources

didn’t want to fight on the pro-slave side

Question 8

Radical Republicans

Answer 8

immediate equal rights for Blacks

Question 9

Jim Crow Laws

Answer 9

made Blacks 2nd class citizens

Required segregation

Question 10

Plessy vs Ferguson

Answer 10

separate but equal

Question 11

14th amendement

Answer 11

no person shall be denied “equal protection of the law”

separate but equal– unconstitutional

Prevent Black codes

Question 12

responses to 14th amendemnt

Answer 12

reading tests

grandfather clauses

Question 13

Dawes Act

Answer 13

abandoned reservation system

redistribute land

goal: assimilate into White culture. Breakkup tribes

sell best pieces of lands to outsiders

Question 14

Homestead Act

Answer 14

160 acres to whoever decides to move out West for 5 years

not worth it.
conditions terrible

Question 15

Poverty in the South causes

Answer 15

South’s late start @ industrialization

poorly educated work force

Question 16

Cotton after the war

Answer 16

productivity UP
amount of cotton UP

Prices DOWN

Question 17

Redeemers

Answer 17

Democratic politicians who came to power in the South during Reconstruction

support from:
Business community
White supremacy

Used racial fears to distract from White tenant farmers etc

Question 18

Booker T Washington

Answer 18

Education. Colleges

Non-immediate equality

win-win for Blacks and Whites

Social/Economic equality
NOT political

Atlanta Speech

Question 19

WEB Dubois

Answer 19

Immediate equality

Question 20

Northern farming

Answer 20

single cash crops

what, corn

Question 21

Southern farming

Answer 21

unable to afford expensive machinary

small farmers go out of business

Question 22

National Grange Movement

Answer 22

social and educational for farmers

Question 23

Interstate Commerce Act 1886

Answer 23

RR rates to be “reasonable and just”

helped RR than farmers

Question 24

Farmer’s Alliance

Answer 24

potential for turning into national party

poor whites and blacks join

similar to Grange movement

Question 25

Alliance policies

Answer 25

Attack Wall Street bankers & Big business

1. direct election of senators
2. lower tariffs
3. graduated income tax
4. fed. banking

later Populist movement

Question 26

Division in Republican party

Answer 26

Moderates
most
concerned w/ economic gain for White middle-class

Radicals
championed civil rights for Blacks
Fear of Democrats being more powerful because of increase in population (Black)
Other civil rights

Question 27

Civil Rights Act 1866

Answer 27

Reverse Dred Scott

African Americans US citizens

Afraid tht may be repealed if Demos take over COngress –> 14th amendement

Question 28

Reconstruction act 1867

Answer 28

divide South into 5

Military occupation

Question 29

Scalawags

Answer 29

Southern Republicans

Question 30

Carpetbaggers

Answer 30

Northern newcomers

Question 31

Reconstruction Accomplishments

Answer 31

liberalized state constitutions
property rights for women
debt relief

internal improvements

tax/bonds pay for it

Question 32

Reconstruction Failures

Answer 32

corruption

decline in ethics in gov.

Question 33

Mugwumps

Answer 33

Reform minded Republicans

NE

Question 34

Stalwarts

Answer 34

Like spoils system

Question 35

Half-Breeds

Answer 35

Loyal to Repubican

wanted some degree of reform

Question 36

Bull Run

Answer 36

Boost SOuthern morale

Question 37

Antietam

Answer 37

leads to Emancipation Proclamation

Question 38

Gettysburg

Answer 38

Turning point

Question 39

Shioh

Answer 39

Take Southern ports

Question 40

Major cause of deaths in civil

Answer 40

disease and infection