Period 5 selected terms

Question 1

conscription

Answer 1

state-mandated enlistment of people in military

Question 2

40 acres and a mule

Answer 2

allotment of land to some freed families

Question 3

inflation

Answer 3

dramatic price increase during Civil War era-caused shortages, black markets-South/confederacy hurt badly

Question 4

loyalty oath

Answer 4

congress enacts oath for civil servants & military officers of loyalty to Union

Question 5

sharecropping

Answer 5

planter allows tenant to use land in exchange for a share of crop-ends up tied to land in a cycle

Question 6

Battle of Fort Sumter

Answer 6

battle to begin the Civil War

Question 7

Battle of Gettysburg

Answer 7

turning point in the Civil War-Confederate defeat turns war in Union’s favor

Question 8

Mexican-American War

Answer 8

1846-1848-followed American annexation of Texas-related to Westward expansion

Question 9

Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

Answer 9

violated Tenure of Office Act-removed Stanton

Question 10

Bleeding Kansas

Answer 10

Kansas entered Union as free state-violence broke out

Question 11

Dred Scott

Answer 11

former enslaved person who sued for freedom when owner took him into free territory-Supreme Court case Scott v Sandford determined no citizenship (or right to sue in court) to black people

Question 12

Copperheads

Answer 12

Northern Democrats who opposed Civil War-blamed abolitionists-resisted war drafts

Question 13

Exodusters

Answer 13

African Americans who migrated along MI River to Kansas

Question 14

Freedmen’s Bureau

Answer 14

provide resources to displaced Southerners including freed African Americans

Question 15

Free-Soil Party

Answer 15

focused on issue of opposing expansion of Slavery West

Question 16

36”30’

Answer 16

The Missouri Compromise stated slavery would be prohibited above the 36”30’ line

Question 17

54 40’

Answer 17

call for more westward expansion

Question 18

confederate states

Answer 18

South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina (last 4 never seceeded from Union)

Question 19

Harper’s Ferry, West VA

Answer 19

John Brown’s raid-anti slavery

Question 20

Ulysses S. Grant

Answer 20

18th president, leading Union general-lead Union to victory

Question 21

10% Plan

Answer 21

Reconstruction plan-10% of those who voted in election of 1860 take loyalty oaths & confederate states establish new govs

Question 22

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Answer 22

repealed Missouri Compromise-both abolitionists & pro-slavery ppl try to flood new territory to lean balance in their favor

Question 23

Compromise of 1850 and Compromise of 1877

Answer 23

1850: Cali admitted as free state, New mexico & Utah territory (from Mexican-Amer war), ammended Fugitive slave act
1877: settled election of ‘76 dispute (Hayes vs Tilden)-Hayes would give more S. democrats power & remove troops from S.

Question 24

Hampton Roads Conference

Answer 24

discuss terms to end Civil War-Union & Confederacy meeting

Question 25

Homestead Act

Answer 25

free land given away to anyone who hasn’t been disloyal to Union if willing to farm for 5 yrs