Period 5

Question 1

Annexation of Texas 1845

Answer 1

• Slave State

- Mexico is mad

Question 2

Mexican American War

Answer 2

-Polk places troops past the disputed border
Ends with Treaty of -Guadalupe- US “buys” for 15 million
-Highly divisive- North and South view oppositely

Question 3

Chinese Immigration

Answer 3

• Fleeing violence and famine

- Built 1st transcontinental railroad

Question 4

“Compromise” of 1850

Answer 4

• California admitted as free state
• Utah and Mexico vote on if slavery is free or not
• Fugitive Slave Act

Question 5

Fugitive Slave Act

Answer 5

Northerners had to return run away enslaved people to enslavers.

Question 6

• Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
• North Star
• The Liberator

Answer 6

Important writing about abolition of slavery

Question 7

Underground Railroad

Answer 7

A network of abolitionists that secretly helped the enslaved escape to freedom by setting up hiding places and routes to the North.

Question 8

Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854

Answer 8

• popular sovereignty
• allowed these states to determine whether they would be slave states or not.
• gave South a chance to expand slavery

Question 9

Bleeding Kansas

Bleeding Sumner

Answer 9

• Kansans engaged in a violent guerrilla war

- Senator Charles Sumner(anti-slavery) was beat by a cane

Question 10

Birth of the Republican Party 1854

Answer 10

anti-slavery Whigs and Free Soil Democrats who opposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act

Question 11

Dred Scott v Sandford 1857

Answer 11

• Dred Scott sues for freedom

- Court says enslaved people are not legal people and can’t sue

Question 12

John Brown- Harper’s Ferry

Answer 12

Brown attempted to lead a slave revolt by capturing Armories in southern territory and giving weapons to slaves
-Executed and immediate cuase of Civil War

Question 13

Homestead Act of 1862

Answer 13

Settlers in the west could claim free land as long as they lived there for 5 years

Question 14

Election of Abraham Lincoln (R) 1860

Answer 14

• Emancipation Proclamation 1863
• Lincoln-Douglas debates
• NOT an abolitionist

Question 15

Civil War

Answer 15

• 1861-1865
• South looses
• 13th Ammendment abollishes slavery

Question 16

The Emancipation Proclamation 1862

Answer 16

• marked the turning point of the war
• proclaimed the of freedom of 3.1 million slaves under Confederate control
• effectivley nothing happened

Question 17

Juneteenth 1865

Answer 17

-The day of emancipation in Texas

Question 18

1864 Sand Creek Massacre

Answer 18

700 militia attacked and destroyed a peaceful village of Cheyenne and Arapaho in southeastern Colorado Territory

Question 19

13th Ammendment

Answer 19

Abolishes Slavery 1865

Question 20

Federal Reconstruction 1865-1877

Answer 20

The period after the Civil War where the US tried to integrate the seceded states back into the Union and integrate African Americans

Question 21

The Freedmen’s Bureau

Answer 21

Created by Congress in 1865 to aid newly emancipated slaves by providing food, clothing, medical care, education, and legal support.

Question 22

14th Ammendment 1866

Answer 22

• Equal Protection

- Citizenship

Question 23

15th Ammendment 1869

Answer 23

Cannot prevent someone from voting based on race

Question 24

Proof reconstruction was working

Answer 24

Black Voter participation surpasses white voters.

Black elected leaders in Reconstruction governments

Question 25

Transcontinental Railroad 1869

Answer 25

- Rail line connected the east and west coasts | - Helps settle the West

Question 26

The Birth of the KKK

Answer 26

White supremacist terrorsit group

Question 27

Force Acts

Answer 27

- banned clan membership - prohibited the use of intimidation to prevent blacks from voting - gave the U.S. military the authority to enforce the acts

Question 28

"Compromise" of 1877

Answer 28

- Ends reconstruction | - Pulls out troops and federal agents

Question 29

Jim Crow laws

Answer 29

state or local laws that enforced or legalized racial segregation

Question 30

Sharecropping

Answer 30

- Black farmers are renters, not owners | - permanent form of indentrued servitude

Question 31

Booker T. Washigton 1854-1915

Answer 31

- Tuskegee Institute - Trade school, not university - Saw education as key to equality

Question 32

Red Cloud

Answer 32

- a war leader and a chief of the Oglala Lakota (Sioux) | - war over control of the Powder River Country in northeastern Wyoming and southern Montana

Question 33

Lost Cause Fallacy

Answer 33

- a myth that attempts to preserve the honour of the South by casting the Confederate defeat in the best possible light. - South plays the victim

Question 34

Ida B. Wells

Answer 34

- Ablitionist, Anti-lynching advocate, and suffragist - Newspaper editor and printer - Foundin member NAACP - pro-exoduster