Period 5

Question 1

Free-Soilers

Answer 1

Against the spread of slavery, but not for moral reasons. Free-Soilers wanted the land gained from the Mexican cession to remain without enslaved people so it could be reserved for white laborers.

Question 2

Radical Republicans

Answer 2

Advocated for civil rights for both freedmen women.

Question 3

Compromise of 1850

Answer 3

Califronia would be admitted as a free state. A tighter fugitive slave act, abolition of slave trade in D.C, popular soverinighty in Utah and New Mexico terroirtories. Texas gives up some Western land claims so the US assumes their war debt.

Question 4

Sectionialism

Answer 4

Sectionalism is loyalty to one’s own region or section of the country, rather than to the country as a whole.

Question 5

Declaration of Causes

Answer 5

When Southern states succeeded they drafted a docment of causes stating their reasons for leaving the union.n

Question 6

Causes of Mexican-Am war

Answer 6

• Conflicting interpertations of where the border was. As well as false claims tha American blood was shed on “American soil.”

Question 7

Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidago

Answer 7

Established the Rio Grande as the southern border of Texas. Also Mexico would later suceede California and New Mexico for 15 million dollars. (+Gadsen purchase)

Question 8

Dred Scott v. Sandford 1857

Answer 8

Dred Scott was an enslaved man who was from Missouri who was taken up to Wisconsin which was a free state for 2 years . Scott later sued for his freedom. The case made it to the supreme court which did not rule in Scotts favor stating that enslaved people were property and could be taken anywhere + slaves could not sue in a court of law. Effectively making all states open to slavery.

Question 9

Raid on Harper’s Ferry

Answer 9

John Brown led a slave uprising in Harper’s Ferry Virgina attempting to raid the federal arsenal there. They were quickly repulsed before they had a chance to act out the plan. Brown and his followers were hanged as punishment. Deeply angered White Southerners.

Question 10

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Answer 10

Because the Kansas and Nebraska were above the 36 30 line (Compromise of 1820) they would be considered a free state. However, it was decided that the states be able to vote on the matter (popular soverenighty),

Question 11

Canning of Charles Sumner

Answer 11

Charles Sumner, a republican made a anti-slavery speech and naming and critizing Senator Butler. His cousin, Brooks would avenge his cousin and beat Sumner with a cane on the senate floor. (The North-South divison)

Question 12

13th amendment

Answer 12

Abolished slavery.

Question 13

14th amendment

Answer 13

Equal protections and citizenship for those born on U.S soil. (No state can infringe on this law.) Passed into law over Johnson’s vetoF

Question 14

15th amendment

Answer 14

No one can be denied the right to vote on account of race. (Granted AA men the right to vote.)

Question 15

Sharecropping

Answer 15

A form of coerced servitude in which land owners seed and farm supplies in exchange for a percentage of the harvest. Many AA’s were forced in sharecropping as unemployment becomes crimnialized.

Question 16

Klu Klux Klan

Answer 16

A white supremacist organization that intimated black folks through burning buildings, lynchings, and control over local politics.

Question 17

Black Codes

Answer 17

Southern black codes prevented Black folks from borrowing money to buy or loan land. Prohibited black folks from testfifying against white people in court. Established segregation in Southern society.

Question 18

Compromise of 1877

Answer 18

• Democrats agree to let Hayes become president.
• Republicans agree to remove all federal troops from the South.
  (Seen as the end of reconstruction)

Question 19

Ten % plan

Answer 19

Abraham lincoln’s plan stated that in order for a Southern state to be readmitted into the union they must: have 10% of the electorate pledge loyalty, as well as ratifying the 13th amendmet.

Question 20

Abe Lincoln’s assasination

Answer 20

Lioncoln was assinated by John Wilkes Booth, because of this Andrew Johnson became president.

Question 21

Andrew Johnson

Answer 21

Johnson was a Southern Democrat and white supremacist. He was known to veto a lot of laws and often had clashes with Congress which was predominately Republican.

Question 22

Freedmens Breau

Answer 22

An organization aimed to assiist freedmen and whites after the civil war. Established schools and other provisions. (Apart of the reconstruction effort)

Question 23

Civil Rights Act of 1866

Answer 23

Ensured the equal protections of African Americans following the aftermath of the civil war. And directly targeted the black codes.

Question 24

Bleeding Kansas

Answer 24

After the Kansas-Nebraska act violence erupted in the Kansas territory between free-soilers and Border Ruffians. The Border Ruffians from Missouri were casting illgeal votes. And even pro and anti slavery consititutions were drafted.

Question 25

Underground RR

Answer 25

A part of the abolitinist movement, a series of trails and safe houses which Enslaved people could find passage to the North and possibly Canada for eventual freedom. To escape the fugitive slave law.

Question 26

John Brown

Answer 26

• Involoved in bleeding Kansas and the raid on Harpers Ferry

Question 27

Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 27

Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation freed all enslaved people in the confederacy. Also cut off any hope of European involvement. (It DID NOT end slavery in the border states, this was startgetic) Helped enslaved people escape to union lines to serve in the army. (+changed the purpose of the war)

Question 28

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Answer 28

An abolitionist book, which framed the insuttion of slavery as inherently evil and inhuamne placing much of the blame on slave owners. A popular book of the time.

Question 29

Jefferson Davis

Answer 29

The first and only inaugrated president of the Confederacy. Alexander Stephens was his vice-president.

Question 30

Gettysburg Address

Answer 30

Speech by Abe Lincoln. To unify the union and protray the struggle agianst slavery as the fufilment of America’s needs founding democratic ideals.

Question 31

Reconstruction acts of 1867

Answer 31

1. Sent federal troops to the South. 2. Ratify 14th amendment Provisions for universal voting rights (white + black)

Question 32

Carpet Bagger

Answer 32

A derogatory term to describe Northerners who came to South after the civil war. Scalawags another deogatory term is for Southern whites who supportered the reconstruction effort.

Question 33

Red Shirts

Answer 33

A terroistic white suprmacists organization threatening freedmen and whites.

Question 34

Force Acts

Answer 34

United States federal law enacted during the Reconstruction era to guarantee African Americans equal treatment in public accommodations, public transportation, and to prevent being excluded from jury duty. Targets the KKK, but no one can enforce.

Question 35

“The Lost Cause”

Answer 35

A psuedohistorical myth peddled by the daughter of the confederacy. It had 3 main beliefs: states rights was the cause of the war, it was a valiant effort, and slavery was benevolent.

Question 36

American Party/ “Know-Nothing”

Answer 36

If the Nativists made a political party. Anti-immigration, Anti-Catholic. Emerged in the 1850s but waned in popularity as the issue of slavery became more dominant.

Question 37

Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

Answer 37

Congress passed the Tenure of Office Act, which prohibited Johnson from removing his cabinet when he did. He was put on trial for impeachment, however it failed by one vote.

Question 38

American Woman sufferage Association

Answer 38

Supported the 15th amendmedment,

Question 38

National Sufferage Association

Answer 38

Did not support the 15th amendment

Question 38

Anaconda Plan

Answer 38

The union would use its naval advantages to blockade the south from receiving supplies, and split the south in half by blocking the Mississppii river.

Question 39

North Advantages

Answer 39

• 4x the population of the South
• Had access to the robust navy (controll seas + rivers)
• Controlled a majority of banks, manfacturing, and railroads.
• Established central government.

Question 40

Southern Advantages

Answer 40

• Great Military leaders (Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee)
• Fought a defensive war.

Question 41

Fort Sumter, South Carolina

Answer 41

Abe Lincoln wanted to provide provision for Fort Sumter he was met with bullets instead.

Question 42

King Cotton

Answer 42

The South had hoped that Europes depedency on Southern cotton would turn into aid from those countries. France and Britian soon realized other sources of cotton.

Question 43

Appotmatox courthouse

Answer 43

General Robert E. Lee oficially surrendered to Ulyssess S. Grant.

Question 44

Republican party

Answer 44

Free Soilers, former Know-Nothings, Abolitiionists, and former anti-slavery whiggs. Argued that slavery should not expand into new territories.

Question 45

Wilmot Proviso

Answer 45

“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of the territory acquired from Mexico, specifically after the war’s conclusion” Failed to pass in the senate 50/50

Question 46

James K. Polk

Answer 46

Polk was an expansonist president eager to increase the size of the US by ways of admitting Oregon, Texas, and California into the union.

Question 47

Mexico’s requirements

Answer 47

1. No more slavery into Texas + Must convert to Catholiscm which was largely ignored. This led to Mexico closing the border.

Question 48

Annexation of Texas

Answer 48

Texas attempted to apply for statehood but was denied on the grounds it would start war with Mexico.

Question 49

Depression of 1873

Answer 49

• Causes white Northerners to change focus due to speculation, and tighter loan regulations. As well as the various scams and embezzlements during his presidency.