First Semester Final Exam

Question 1

An abolitionist from KS. He is known for the Pottawatomie Creek Massacre and the Raid on Harpers Ferry.

Answer 1

John Brown

Question 2

He was a Kansas Senator. He was an abolitionist known for leading the 400 person Lane’s Army of the North. He led the Jayhawkers.

Answer 2

James Lane

Question 3

A Republican leader who was against the expansion of slavery. He won the Presidential election in 1860. This prompted southern states to start seceding.

Answer 3

Abraham Lincoln

Question 4

A nickname given to the violence in Kansas in the 1850s over the issue of slavery.

Answer 4

Bleeding Kansas

Question 5

A four part agreement that included admitting California as a free state, banning slave trade in D.C., using popular sovereignty to decide on slavery in area gained from Mexico, and creating a new Fugitive Slave Act.

Answer 5

Compromise of 1850

Question 6

A case involving a slave suing for his freedom. He lost. The court determined slaves were property and had no rights of citizenship. It further determined that the federal government did not have the right to prohibit slavery.

Answer 6

Dred Scott v. Sandford

Question 7

A law that allowed people in two U.S. territories to vote on the issue of slavery. They used popular sovereignty to decide whether to allow or forbid slavery.

Answer 7

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Question 8

John Brown tried to seize weapons from the federal arsenal here. He failed and was put to death for treason. He had been attempting to arm slaves and lead them in a revolt.

Answer 8

Harpers Ferry (The Raid on Harpers Ferry)

Question 9

A Missourian that crossed the border into Kansas to illegally vote in KS elections.

Answer 9

Border Ruffian

Question 10

The location of the first shots of the Civil War being fired. The fort refused to surrender to the Confederacy. When the fort was taken, the U.S. sent troops to the South to stop the rebellion.

Answer 10

Fort Sumter (Charleston, South Carolina)

Question 11

President of the Confederacy

Answer 11

Jefferson Davis

Question 12

The Union General who won Western victories at places like Shiloh and Vicksburg. He was the leader who Lee surrendered to at Appomattox Court House in VA.

Answer 12

Ulysses S. Grant

Question 13

Commanded Confederate troops

Answer 13

Robert E. Lee

Question 14

A Confederate Bushwhacker that was known for an attack on Lawrence.

Answer 14

William C. Quantrill

Question 15

A Union General known for using total war in his March Through Georgia.

Answer 15

William T. Sherman

Question 16

Describe the economic impact of the Civil War.

Answer 16

The North and South both suffered economically during the war. The South faced more problems than the North. Inflation was one of the problems experienced.

Question 17

This started with Lee’s invasion of the North. He moved his men into Pennsylvania and eventually encounters the Union. The end results are that the Confederacy lost and they never regained the strength they had going into the battle.

Answer 17

Battle of Gettysburg

Question 18

How did the Battle of Antietam start and what was the result?

Answer 18

When the Union found Lee’s battle plans, they knew he was headed North into Maryland. The Union pursued him and that is how the Battle of Antietam started. The end result was Lee’s retreat and a Union victory. This results in Lincoln issuing the Emancipation Proclamation.

Question 19

A battle that took place in Mississippi. The Union won and gained control of the Mississippi River.

Answer 19

The Battle of Vicksburg

Question 20

What was the burning of Lawrence?

Answer 20

An attack led by William C. Quantrill. His men killed many anti-slavery men and boys in Lawrence.

Question 21

What was the Emancipation Proclamation?

Answer 21

Lincoln’s declaration of freedom for slaves in the Confederate states.

Question 22

Anti-slavery Kansans

Answer 22

Jayhawkers

Question 23

Pro-slavery Missourians

Answer 23

Bushwhackers

Question 24

Freedmen that moved to Kansas

Answer 24

Exodusters

Question 25

The President who ended Reconstruction when he entered office.

Answer 25

Rutherford B. Hayes

Question 26

Who was Andrew Johnson?

Answer 26

He was Lincoln’s Vice President. He replaced Lincoln after he was killed. Johnson was the first President to be impeached.

Question 27

What is amnesty?

Answer 27

When the government pardons someone for wrongdoings.

Question 28

Laws that restricted the rights of African Americans.

Answer 28

Black codes

Question 29

The enforced separation of races.

Answer 29

Segregation

Question 30

What does impeach mean?

Answer 30

To bring formal charges against a public official.

Question 31

The amendment that abolished slavery.

Answer 31

13th amendment

Question 32

This amendment defined a citizen as someone born in the U.S and said that all citizens are equally protected under the laws of the U.S. Constitution.

Answer 32

14th amendment

Question 33

The amendment that gave voting rights to African American males. It said you could not deny someone the right to vote based on “color, race, or previous condition of servitude.”

Answer 33

15th amendment

Question 34

Excused white voters from taking a literacy test in order to vote.

Answer 34

grandfather clause

Question 35

What were Jim Crow Laws?

Answer 35

segregation laws

Question 36

What was Radical Reconstruction?

Answer 36

The plan created by Radical Republicans during Reconstruction. The idea was to limit the power of former Confederates and give rights to African Americans.

Question 37

What was sharecropping?

Answer 37

The idea of working for a landowner to plant and harvest crops in exchange for a share of the profits from the crop.