Part of Civil Rights + Recontruction

Question 1

Underground Railroad

Answer 1

a system of secret routes used by escaping slaves to reach freedom in the North or in Canada

Question 2

Dred Scott Decision

Answer 2

A Missouri slave sued for his freedom; claiming that his four-year stay in the northern portion of the Louisiana Territory (made free land by the Missouri Compromise) had MADE HIM A FREE MAN. The U.S. Supreme Court decided he couldn’t sue in federal court because he was property and not a citizen.

Question 3

Bleeding Kansas

Answer 3

(1856) a series of violent fights between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces in Kansas who had moved there to try to influence the decision of whether or not Kansas would a slave state or a free state.

Question 4

Union Troops

Answer 4

The United States; especially the northern states during the Civil War, which remained with the original United States government and did not secede.

Question 5

Confederacy

Answer 5

A loose union of independent states; name of government used by the southern states that seceded during the Civil War (i.e. elected their own “president” and created their own currency)

Question 6

Abraham Lincoln

Answer 6

16th President of the United States saved the Union during the Civil War and emancipated the slaves; was assassinated by Booth (1809-1865)

Question 7

Jefferson Davis

Answer 7

An American statesman and politician who served as President of the Confederate States of America for its entire history from 1861 to 1865

Question 8

Secession

Answer 8

the formal withdrawal of a state from the Union

Question 9

Militia

Answer 9

A volunteer army

Question 10

Gettysburg Adress

Answer 10

A 3-minute address by Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War (November 19, 1963) at the dedication of a national cemetery on the site of the Battle of Gettysburg

Question 11

Appomattox Court House

Answer 11

Famous as the site of the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse, where the surrender of the Confederate Army under Robert E. Lee to Ulysses S. Grant (April 9, 1865)

Question 12

Surrender

Answer 12

to give in or give up; to accept defeat

Question 13

Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 13

Proclamation issued by President Lincoln; freeing all slaves in areas still at war with the Union.

Question 14

13th Amendment

Answer 14

Abolition of slavery without compensation for slave-owners

Question 15

US Civil War

Answer 15

The violent conflict between Union (North) and Confederate (South) forces over states’ rights and slavery.

Question 16

Reconstruction

Answer 16

the period after the Civil War in the United States when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union

Question 17

Jim Crow Laws

Answer 17

Laws designed to enforce segregation of blacks from whites

Question 18

Segregation

Answer 18

Separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences

Question 19

Reconstruction Act of 1867

Answer 19

Necessary requirements for the former Confederate States to be readmitted to the Union

Question 20

Amnesty

Answer 20

(n.) a general pardon for an offense against a government; in general, any act of forgiveness or absolution

Question 21

Ten Percent Plan (of Reconstruction)

Answer 21

A plan enacted by President Abraham Lincoln in Union-controlled Louisiana in 1863 that offered an amnesty and full restoration of rights, including property except for slaves, to nearly all white southerners who took an oath affirming loyalty to the Union and support for emancipation; when 10 percent of the voters of 1860 had taken the oath, they could elect a new state government, which would be required to abolish slavery.

Question 22

Freedman

Answer 22

A person who has been freed from slavery

Question 23

Integrate

Answer 23

To bring together and make whole

Question 24

Sharecropping

Answer 24

A system used on southern farms after the Civil War in which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops.

Question 25

Lynching

Answer 25

putting a person to death by mob action without due process of law