History

Question 1

Define Border State

Answer 1

Border State – Around the Civil war, a state between the North and the South (i.e. Missouri, Kentucky,)

Question 2

Define Confederate States of America

Answer 2

Confederate States of America- A nation formed by eleven southern states in 1861. South Carolina was the first to leave Union. This was to be the name of the new country. A new county based on slavery.

Question 3

Richmond, Virginia

Answer 3

Richmond, Virginia– Capital of the Confederate States of America. The capital was moved to Montgomery, Alabama during the last year of the war

Question 4

Antiseptic

Answer 4

Antiseptic- A germ killing drug. Germs first discovered during the war.

Question 5

Anesthetic

Answer 5

Anesthetic- A pain killer.

Question 6

First Battle Bull Run

Answer 6

First Battle Bull Run- The first major battle of the civil war, won by the confederates in 1862

Question 7

Battle of Shiloh

Answer 7

Battle of Shiloh- The fierce civil war battle at Pittsburg landing on the Tennessee River, won by the union forces in 1862. A major victory for General Ulysses Grant of the Union Army.

Question 8

Cavalry

Answer 8

Cavalry- Soldiers on horseback. The South had the best cavalry. Jeb Steward (confederate) invented many of the tactics for using horses in warfare.

Question 9

Seven Days’ Battle

Answer 9

Seven Days’ Battle- A week long battle on Virginia’s York Peninsula in which the confederates forced Union forces to retreat in 1862,

Question 10

Battle of Antietam

Answer 10

Battle of Antietam- A Civil war battle, a military draw but a political victory for the Union, near Sharpsburg Maryland in 1862. Europe withdrew support to the South.

Question 11

Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 11

Emancipation Proclamation- The announcement on Jan. 1st, 1863 by President Lincoln that all slaves in Confederate territory would be considered free. He could not free the slaves in the North without changing the Constitution. This required approval from Congress.

Question 12

Draft

Answer 12

Draft- A system of choosing people for required military service.

Question 13

Battle of Gettysburg

Answer 13

Battle of Gettysburg- The greatest single battle of the Civil war, won by Union in Pennsylvania in 1863. Pickett’s charge happened on the third day. The turning point of the entire war, the North will win more than it loses.

Question 14

Battle of Vicksburg

Answer 14

Battle of Vicksburg- The Union capture of Vicksburg, Mississippi, during the civil war in 1863. Union gains complete control of Mississippi river.

Question 15

Reconstruction

Answer 15

the period after the Civil War, lasting from 1865 to 1877, when the federal government took action to rebuild the South

Question 16

amnesty

Answer 16

official pardon

Question 17

Thirteenth Amendment

Answer 17

the constitution amendment the abolished slavery

Question 18

black codes

Answer 18

laws limiting the freedom of African Americans, passed by southern states after the civil war

Question 19

moderates

Answer 19

a person who opposes extreme change

Question 20

civil rights

Answer 20

the rights of all citizens

Question 21

Fourteenth Amendment

Answer 21

the constitution amendment declaring that all native-born or naturalized persons were citizens and had the same rights as citizens

Question 22

scalawags

Answer 22

insulting term used to describe a white southerner who supported Reconstruction

Question 23

carpetbaggers

Answer 23

insulting term used to describe a northerner who moved to the South during Reconstruction

Question 24

Fifteenth Amendment

Answer 24

amendment to the Constitution that declared the the right to vote should not be denied “on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”

Question 25

lynched

Answer 25

to kill without trial

Question 26

Compromise of 1877

Answer 26

the agreement that resolved the an 1876 election dispute: Rutherford B. Hayes became President and then removed the last federal troops from the South

Question 27

sharecroppping

Answer 27

a system in which a farmer rented land, tools, seed, and housing from a landowner in return for a share of the crop

Question 28

Jim Crow laws

Answer 28

laws that made segregation official in public facilities in the South

Question 29

segregation

Answer 29

separation by race

Question 30

Plessy v. Ferguson

Answer 30

the 1896 Supreme Court decision declaring that segregation was lawful as long as blacks and whites had access to equal facilities.