Key terms and vocab

Question 1

Abolished slavery

Answer 1

13th amendment

Question 2

The 11 southern states that left the US

Answer 2

Confederacy

Question 3

States could join the US with or without slavery

Answer 3

Kansas Nebraska Act

Question 4

Residents of a territory would vote to decide whether to allow slavery

Answer 4

Popular sovereignty

Question 5

Freed enslaved people in states rebelling against the U.S.

Answer 5

Emancipation Proclamation

Question 6

Granted citizenship & equal protection of the law

Answer 6

14th Amendment

Question 7

African American men were given the right to vote

Answer 7

15th Amendment

Question 8

American belief in their “divine right” to westward expansion

Answer 8

Manifest Destiny

Question 9

Violence over whether Kansas should allow slavery

Answer 9

Bleeding Kansas

Question 10

African Americans can’t be citizens & Congress can’t abolish slavery

Answer 10

Scott vs Stanford

Question 11

State admitted to the Union as a slave state in 1845 despite Mexico’s claim to the land

Answer 11

Texas

Question 12

Terrorist organization devoted to white supremacy

Answer 12

KKK

Question 13

Led a failed raid on Harpers Ferry to start a slave revolt

Answer 13

John Brown

Question 14

To break away from a country

Answer 14

Secede

Question 15

Period after the Civil War when Congress tried to rebuild the country & grant rights to freed people

Answer 15

Reconstruction

Question 16

Ruled that segregation does not violate the Constitution

Answer 16

Plessy v. Ferguson

Question 17

Government agency tasked with overseeing Reconstruction and helping African Americans transition to freedom

Answer 17

Freedmen’s Bureau

Question 18

Slave states that remained in the Union/USA

Answer 18

Border state

Question 19

Which president of the United States called for war with Mexico in 1848?

Answer 19

President James K. Polk

Question 20

Who were the candidates in the election of 1860? What did each believe about slavery?

Answer 20

Abraham Lincoln (opposed slavery), John Breckenridge(thought it was a constitutional issue, not moral), John Bell(opposed expansion of slavery), Stephen Douglas(pro slavery).

Question 21

Why did Reconstruction end in 1877?

Answer 21

The compromise of 1877 ended reconstruction.