FUN FACT C9A (1st)

Question 1

The Dred Scott decision reversed which decision?

Answer 1

Missouri Compromise

Question 2

What was reconstruction?

Answer 2

Integration of the south

Question 3

In the south, the passage of Jim Crow laws led to…

Answer 3

Segregation of public facilities

Question 4

Who killed Abraham Lincoln?

Answer 4

John Booth

Question 5

After the Civil War, how did many former slaves earn a living?

Answer 5

Sharecroppers on the southern grounds

Question 5

What was the purpose of the Missouri Comp and the The comp of 1850?

Answer 5

To prevent the civil war from happening

Question 6

Why did northerners want congress to oversee reconstruction rather than the president?

Answer 6

The constitiution gives the congress the right to admit new states, not the president.

Question 7

What was the first battle of the civil war?

Answer 7

The battle of Bull Run

Question 8

Did the states have to ratify the 15th Amendment to join the union again?

Answer 8

Only some did.

Question 9

THe fugitive slave act was added to

Answer 9

The Compromise of 1850

Question 10

To chare a government official with a crime:

Answer 10

to impeach

Question 10

What was the first state to secede

Answer 10

South Carolina

Question 11

The invention of the cotton gin was important because

Answer 11

it INCREASED the demand of slavery

Question 12

Which Amendment did Confederates have to ratify to be welcomed back into the Union?

Answer 12

14th

Question 13

Who believed in strong state rights?

Answer 13

The southern states

Question 14

Who were scalawags?

Answer 14

White southerners who supported the union.

Question 15

Which Amendment allowed AA voting (not women)

Answer 15

15th

Question 16

Who was the martyr that became famous for leading a raid at Harpers’ Ferry?

Answer 16

John Brown

Question 17

What battle was the last time the Confederacy attemped to invade the Union?

Answer 17

Gettysburg

Question 18

How did the civil war start?

Answer 18

Because the confederates fired on Fort Sumter

Question 19

How were poll taxes & literacy tests used?

Answer 19

To deny AA the right to vote

Question 20

Why did northerners think President Johnson’s reconstruction plan was a failure?

Answer 20

Because former confederates still ran the southern states

Question 21

How was the institution of slavery formally abolished in the US?

Answer 21

The ratification of the 13th Amendment.

Question 21

How many confederate casualties were there in the civil war?

Answer 21

260,000

Question 22

In a popular sovereignty decision, who would decide whether or not slavery would be allowed in a territory?

Answer 22

The residents of the territory.

Question 23

Who were carpetbaggers?

Answer 23

Northerners who rushed to the south after the war to gain government positions.

Question 24

In their plans for Reconstruction, both Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson sought to

Answer 24

Allow southern states to renter the union ASAP

Question 25

Which act allowed states to choose whether or not they wanted to be free states or slave states.

Answer 25

The Comp of 1850

Question 26

What effect did the system of sharecropping have on the South after the Civil War?

Answer 26

It kept former slaves dependent on their land owners.